Call to expedite steps to employ Malayalam as medium of instruction in colleges
The Hindu
Bhasha Institute Director writes to CM asking him to implement it in engg. colleges
As the country takes baby steps towards adopting regional languages for higher education, the State Institute of Languages (Kerala Bhasha Institute) has urged the State government to expedite preparatory steps to employ Malayalam as the medium of instruction in colleges and universities. With the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) giving its nod to offer BTech programmes in 11 regional languages, including Malayalam, 14 engineering colleges across eight States have decided to offer select courses in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil. The Karnataka government too has revealed its plan to offer all professional courses, including engineering, in Kannada from the 2022-23 academic year. State Institute of Languages Director V. Karthikeyan Nair has written to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to implement it in engineering colleges after holding a preparatory meeting with the Higher Education Minister, Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education) and the Vice Chancellor of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU).More Related News