In a landmark move towards removing the barrier of language in pursuing technical studies as well as boosting national pride among the youth of Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to start teaching engineering courses at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Hindi also from the next academic session.
BHU will be the first institute in the country to offer engineering courses in Hindi.
Initially, the option of Hindi will be restricted to the first year BTech students, but in the coming years it will be introduced at higher stages as well, said a press release.
All the necessary preparations have been made in this regard. A list of experts who can teach engineering in Hindi has been prepared. There is a provision to call experts from outside also to teach engineering courses in Hindi as per requirement.
Meanwhile, the BHU is engaged in arranging Hindi books for first year BTech courses.
Prof Pramod Kumar Jain, IIT BHU Director and Chairman of Official Language Committee, has confirmed the introduction of engineering courses in Hindi for first year students. He said that the decision to launch engineering courses in Hindi along with traditional English was taken under the new education policy, which had a provision for making mother tongue the medium of instruction.
Prof Jain said that use of regional languages would only expand the scope of engineering with talented youths from a cross section of society coming forward to pursue technical studies.
It is worth noting that under the new education policy, the Central government had announced last year its plan to introduce engineering courses in Hindi at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Subsequently, the BHU started working on it, but had to shelve its plan due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, with daily COVID-19 cases having come almost to a nought in Uttar Pradesh, the state government is gearing up to implement it from the next academic session.