India, June 23 -- Barely eight months after major reforms were introduced in October 2024, the Maharashtra school education department has set up a new, seven-member committee to review the functioning of the state's Sainik Schools and revisit the revised policy.

A government notification in this regard was issued on June 20, 2025 by the school education and sports department. The move follows rising concerns over the low percentage of students from the state's 38 Sainik Schools qualifying for the National Defence Academy (NDA), the prestigious defence training institute located in Khadakwasla near Pune.

Deputy secretary of the school education and sports department of Maharashtra, Sameer Sawant, said that a decision to allow one Sainik...