Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced that the education ministry has set up a taskforce to prepare a roadmap to implement technical education in the mother tongue. The minister took the decision in a high-level meeting.
“The meeting today is a step in the direction towards achieving the prime minister’s vision that students may pursue professional courses such as medicine, engineering and law in their mother tongue,” Pokhriyal said, as per PTI.
“No language will be imposed on any student but enabling provisions should be made so that bright students are not deprived of technical education due to lack of knowledge of the English language,” said the education minister.
More about the taskforce
Ramesh Pokhriyal said that the task force was under the chairmanship of Secretary, Higher Education. It would be taking suggestions from various stakeholders, consider them, and submit a report in a month.
The high-level meeting where the decision was taken also had in attendance Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare, IIT Directors, academicians and senior officials of the ministry. The meeting was being held to discuss how to implement the new National Education Policy (NEP).
IITs, NITs to offer courses in mother tongue
Last week, a review meeting chaired by Pokhriyal had decided that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will start offering engineering courses in mother tongue from the next academic year.
“A seminal decision was made to start technical education, especially engineering courses, imparting education in mother tongue (and this) will be opened from next academic year. A few IITs and NITs are being shortlisted for the same,” a senior ministry official had said. (With inputs from PTI)
Courtesy: India Today
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