UGC Chairman holds meeting with International publishers willing to publish UG textbooks in Indian languages

The UGC Chairman also met with representatives from Wiley India, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press India, Cengage India, and McGraw-Hill India.

UGC Chairman holds meeting with International publishers willing to publish UG textbooks in Indian languages

University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar conducted a meeting with several international publishers to discuss printing undergraduate textbooks in Indian languages. The UGC Chairman also met with representatives from Wiley India, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press India, Cengage India, and McGraw-Hill India.

The representatives, Kumar says, have expressed their willingness to participate in this mission of promoting regional languages in the country. “All the international publishers have expressed their willingness to partner in this national mission. UGC has formed an Apex committee to prepare a road map and work towards bringing out textbooks in different Indian languages,” he tweeted.

The meeting has been held a few months after Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched Hindi textbooks for anatomy, biochemistry and physiology for first-year MBBS students in Madhya Pradesh. He further added, "at the function that the Prime Minister is converting ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain gain’ by enabling and motivating Indian students to pursue medical and technical education in Indian/ regional languages."

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in October had also issued a calendar for outcome-based engineering book discussion. As a part of this calendar, the first series of discussions kicked off on November 29 and will go on till January 31, 2023.

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