Referring to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 that promotes technical courses in the mother tongue, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah announced that from October 16 this year, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, will offer MBBS in Hindi.
At the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new campus of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in Lekawada of Gandhinagar on Tuesday, Shah said, “The NEP has encouraged mother language as when a student thinks in his mother tongue, he can understand and research better. Some people might find this strange but I want to reiterate that when students think, talk, and study in their mother tongue, they can research better, unlike rote learning. That is the reason from October 16, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya will offer a complete first semester of MBBS course in Hindi.”
Shah took part in the foundation stone laying of the 750-bed Adarsh Multispeciality Hospital at Kalol, the inauguration of an underpass in Gandhinagar built by the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation for Rs 34.74 crore, foundation stone laying of a martyr memorial and library in Samou village in Mansa taluka of Gandhinagar district. He also visited temples in Rupal and Bahucharaji in Mansa, both in the Gandhinagar district.
Listing out the benefits of the NEP, Shah said, “The National Education Policy is not just a book, but a library… Priority has been given to the Indian language, art, and culture. Modi Ji has taken the initiative to improve the standard of living of people through technology,” he added.
Shah said when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, India’s economy was number 11 in the world, while now it is the fifth largest economy in the world.