Language as barrier: On making mother tongue the medium for higher studies
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Language as barrier: On making mother tongue the medium for higher studies

The Hindu  

The call by Home Minister Amit Shah last week for engineering, law and medicine to be taught in Indian languages is a well-intentioned one. His stand is in sync with one of the focal points of the National Education Policy 2020, i.e., the promotion of Indian languages in higher education. The NEP provides for more higher educational institutions and programmes in higher education to use the mother tongue or local language as a medium of instruction, besides offering programmes bilingually. In recent years, substantive measures have been taken to make engineering courses available in Indian languages, if the statement by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the Lok Sabha in December 2021 is an indication. The Council has also developed an “AICTE Translation Automation AI Tool” that translates English online courses in 11 Indian languages.

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