New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have asked the centrally-funded technical institutes to work towards developing academic content in Indian languages.
The work on this aspect is likely to begin in 2021 as a part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 implementation.
“We need to develop an ecosystem of technological education in Indian languages and translate global journals into regional languages,” the PM said.
According to Money Control’s sources in IIT, the work on this front has been given a further push after a July 8 meeting with PM Modi.
The education ministry is also establishing a task force to prepare a roadmap for imparting technical education in the mother tongue as part of the NEP. Programmes like BTech in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will be part of the scheme.
The timeline for the same has not yet been set, but work is set to start on the translation by December this year.
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