The Madhya Pradesh administration has announced that students will now be taught medical courses in English medium as well as in Hindi, making MP the first state to do so.
The initiative has been launched by Home Minister Amit Shah with the release of Hindi textbooks for three MBBS courses on 16 October. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accepted the news on social media.
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hello mr @AmitShah Review comments for being published to 16 Observer in Zee’s Chief Hospitality. #mp_in_in_hindi_in_mbbs https://t.co/J4SRn5ZlhV https://t.co/8a69bXzEJG
— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) 14 October 2022
MP Education Minister Vishwas Sarang was quoted by The Week as saying, “The books on three subjects- Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry for MBBS first year- have been prepared by a task force of 16 doctors with inputs from 97 subject experts “
The new Hindi textbooks will include scientific organic words created in English but written in Devanagari script and explanations in Hindi to avoid ambiguity on technical details.
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According to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan the purpose of this action is to end the use of English language as an instrument of slavery. This will help in the establishment of Hindi and instill confidence in the students. From the current academic session (2022-23), Hindi education will be offered as a pilot project at Gandhi Medical College (GMC), Bhopal, and will eventually be expanded to 12 other medical colleges in the state.
In a video posted on Twitter, state school education minister Inder Singh Parmar can be seen talking about the decision to start medical courses in Hindi. Parmar said that this step will ensure that students from Hindi medium background do not face English language barrier while pursuing medical courses.
state government #MBBS Course in Language is starting. with this action @indersinghsjpSchool Education (Freedom) State State #mp_in_in_hindi_in_mbbs pic.twitter.com/dVRKzbknP3
— Department of School Education, MP (@schooledump) 14 October 2022
The move came after a committee of MPs headed by Amit Shah proposed that Hindi be considered as a teaching language for higher education in Hindi-speaking regions such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Gujarat. The committee also recommended publications in the mother tongue of individual states for non-Hindi speaking states. The new National Education Policy 2020 introduced by the Center also emphasizes on promoting mother tongue as the language of the medium.
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