As the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education's Higher Secondary Certificate (Class 12) exam begins on Tuesday (February 21), the non-teaching staff associations across the state have intensified their ongoing strike starting Monday. On Monday the non-teaching staff associations called for a state-wide indefinite strike.

The unions of non-teaching staff led by the Maharashtra State University and College Employees Joint Action Committee and Maharashtra State Secondary School Non-teaching Staff Association went on strike from February 2.