Mr. Pokhriyal mentioned that no language will be imposed on any student and enabling provisions should be made so that bright students are not deprived of Technical Education due to lack of knowledge of the English language.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank chaired a high-level meeting to discuss the roadmap to successfully implement the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. In the meeting, the Education Minister also directed the officials to set up a taskforce for imparting technical education in the mother tongue, to promote the mother tongue in the National Education Policy (NEP).
On July 29, the Cabinet passed the new Education policy, that emphasizes the use of mother tongue by teachers, or instructors for teaching in technical institutes. Mr. Pokhriyal last week had announced last week that technical education, including engineering, will be taught in the vernacular from next year. A statement from the ministry said that select Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will lead this project.
The Ministry of Education tweeted about the meeting, saying Mr Pokhriyal is taking forward the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impart professional knowledge in students’ respective mother tongues.
“The meeting today is a step in the direction towards achieving Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of students pursuing professional courses such as medicine, engineering, law, etc in their mother tongue”, the Ministry of Education said. The National Education Policy had suggested the promotion of mother tongue in professional institutes all over the country, though it was not made mandatory.
He further mentioned that no language will be imposed on any student and enabling provisions should be made so that bright students are not deprived of Technical Education due to lack of knowledge of the English language.
Earlier, the Education Minister had also announced that the National Testing Agency (NTA) will be conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 in more regional Indian languages where admissions to State Engineering Colleges is based on JEE Main. NTA will add more languages to this list for the exams starting 2021 apart from Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi and English.
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