From the new academic year 2021-2022. All India Council for Technical Education has allowed colleges to offer engineering degree in 8 Indian regional language including Marathi and other languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada and Malayalam.
The move would help candidates, particularly from rural and tribal areas to realize their dreams.
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Anil Sahastrabuddhe said, the aim is to impact technical education to the students in their mother tongue so that they can grasp the fundamentals in a much better way.
“We’ve received about 500 applications from the entire country. We’ve planned to offer UG engineering courses in 11 more languages in future. AICTE is offering course material in all these languages and also translating courses taught under swayam and massive open online course (MOOC) portals,” he told TOI.
Many advanced countries like Germany, France, Russia, Japan and China impart entire education in their official languages.
