Maharashtra to start engineering courses in Marathi from next academic year

Engineering courses will be available in both English and Marathi and students will have the choice to select the language of course. 

The Maharashtra government has decided to launch engineering courses in Marathi from the next academic year, said Education minister Deepak Kesarkar.  

Kesarkar said students’ grasping power should be utilised for understanding the subject instead of language. It has been accepted all over the world that education should be given in the mother tongue and students’ grasping power is at best when they learn in their mother tongue, Hindustan Times reported. 

“It is seen that countries which provide science and technology education in their mother tongue produce best and world-class scientists and technocrats. Most of the famous and award-winning scientists learnt in their mother tongue,” Kesarkar said. 

He said engineering courses will be available in both English and Marathi and students will have the choice to select the language of course. 

The minister said this will help many students who have the capacity to learn engineering, but are not comfortable with English. He expressed confidence that the opportunity to learn engineering in Marathi will be helpful to many talented youths and Maharashtra will produce world-class engineers. 

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had launched books written in Marathi language for diploma and undergraduate engineering courses in November last year. Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar and Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Maharashtra, Chandrakant Patil, had launched the books at Mumbai University. 

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