The translated study materials will help impart education in Indian languages to engineering students. Source: Shutterstock
All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has set a target of printing study materials for technical courses in 12 Indian languages, a move that has come in accordance with the provisions of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, AICTE chairperson Anil Sahasrabudhe has said.
The NEP lays emphasis on imparting technical, medical and professional education in Indian languages to ensure better understanding of the subject.
In line with the NEP, the technical education regulator granted approval to 19 institutes and universities to conduct 26 technical courses in six Indian languages last year, added the AICTE chief.
"The council had last year announced technical education courses in Indian languages. Consequently, in the last year alone we granted approval to 19 institutes and universities to conduct 26 technical courses in six Indian languages – Bengali, Hindi, Kannad, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu – in 10 states," Sahasrabudhe said.
"In order to facilitate the smooth conduct of these courses, various translated books in Indian languages are being made available to the institutions. We have kept a target of printing study materials in 12 Indian languages," he said.
The NEP envisages that all higher education institutions should evolve into autonomous universities by the year 2040 with an individual enrolment of above 3,000.
"Consequently, the AICTE has facilitated merger of institutions without restriction of intake and has granted autonomy to the PGDM standalone institutions under its purview,” Sahasrabudhe said.