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PM Modi Introduced 100 Textbooks in 12 Indian languages at the 2-day Education Summit
The two-day education summit, organized by the education ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the University Grants Commission (UGC), and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), emphasized the significance of regional languages in education.
by Pragti Sharma / 29 Jul 2023 22:56 PM IST / 0 Comment(s) / 139
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam at the International Convention Centre, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. During this occasion, PM Modi introduced a collection of 100 books in 12 Indian languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
The two-day education summit, organized by the education ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the University Grants Commission (UGC), and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), emphasized the significance of regional languages in education. PM Modi expressed his hope that universities would actively contribute to crafting high-quality textbooks and teaching materials in diverse Indian languages.
The summit's main goal was to discuss the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Notable attendees included Dharmendra Pradhan, the union education minister, and union ministers of State – Annapurna Devi, Subhas Sarkar, and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.
M Jagadesh Kumar, UGC chairman, highlighted the efforts of the expert committee, led by Nageswar Rao, vice-chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University, in promoting Indian languages in higher education. The committee's future mandate involves preparing a minimum of 150 BA, BCom, and BSc first-year subject textbooks in each Indian language to bridge educational resource gaps.
Moreover, the UGC plans to create an additional 1,500 books in various Indian languages. To further encourage the use of mother tongues and Indian languages, the UGC has directed higher educational institutions to conduct teaching-learning activities through correspondence and other mediums. A team of subject experts, academicians, and translators has been formed to develop textbooks in Indian languages, with guidelines issued to ensure translation quality.
In response to these initiatives, central and state universities, along with colleges, have provided detailed descriptions of their efforts to promote Indian languages through a Google form titled "Promotion of Indian Languages in Higher Educational Institutions."
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