Technical Education In Mother Tongue: Education Ministry Sets Up Task Force To Prepare Roadmap

New Delhi: The Ministry of Education has set up a task force on Wednesday to prepare a roadmap on imparting technical education, including engineering courses, in the mother tongue, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by the education minister.

“The meeting today is a step in the direction towards achieving the prime minister’s vision that students may pursue professional courses such as medicine, engineering and law in their mother tongue. No language will be imposed on any student but enabling provisions should be made so that bright students are not deprived of technical education due to lack of knowledge of the English language,” Pokhriyal was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

“A task force for preparing a roadmap on imparting technical education in mother tongue was formed today. The task force set up under the chairmanship of Secretary, Higher Education will take into consideration the suggestions made by various stakeholders and will submit a report in a month,” the minister said.

The meeting witnessed the presence of higher education secretary Amit Khare, IIT Directors, academicians and senior officials of the ministry. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss and deliberate on the implementation of the new National Education Policy (NEP 2020).