All India Council for Technical Education and Haryana Granth Akademi would work together to promote as a medium of technical education. A formal agreement paving the way to this collaboration between the two government institutions was signed at AICTE Headquarters in New Delhi in the digital presence of Union Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank during the launching ceremony of NEET 2.0. Haryana Granth Akademi(HGA) Deputy Chairman & Director Dr. Virender Singh Chauhan and AICTE Member Secretary Prof. Rajiv Kumar signed the agreement and exchanged relevant documents. AICTE Chairman Prof.Anil D. Sahashrabuddhe was also present on this occasion.
Giving details of the new initiative Dr. Virender Singh Chauhan said under the agreement HGA would publish the technical education related manuscripts prepared and evaluated by the AICTE. The books so published would be made available to the students and teachers at nominal rates as both the government bodies were committed to promotion of Hindi in technical education. Several such books written by various experts are ready for Publication and the same have been prepared under a scheme of the AICTE. These books to be published by Haryana Granth Akademi are likely to be available for students and teachers of technical education within a few months.
New National Education Policy lays ample emphasis on promotion of indigenous languages including Hindi and the agreement signed between AICTE and HGA was in tune with this underlying philosophy of the new education policy,said Professor Anil D Sashashrabudhe,Chairman AICTE. New model curriculum for Polytechnical institutions has been prepared by the Council. The new initiative aimed at providing hindi textbooks as per the new model curriculum, he added.
Meanwhile, Dr. Chauhan said Haryana Granth Akademi said, headed by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal is already working on a Hindi Text Project with financial assistance from Commission For Scientific & Technical Terminology, another Union Government body.