Union Home Affairs Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday called the start of medical education in Hindi in Madhya Pradesh as “historic”, which will improve students’ skills and also enable them to ” inferiority complex” of not knowing English.
Shah released Hindi textbooks of three subjects for the freshmen of the MBBS course as part of the Madhya Pradesh government’s ambitious project to provide medical education in the Hindi language, a first in the country. Shah also said work is underway to start technical and medical education in eight other languages in the country.
Studying in one’s own language will enhance students’ skills. Students across the country should get out of their linguistic inferiority complex as there is now a government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and they can showcase their skills in their language, Shah said on the occasion. He published Hindi textbooks on medical biochemistry, anatomy and medical physiology.
Shah praised Prime Minister Modi for speaking in Hindi on international platforms to send a message to the world, which he says boosts the confidence of the young people in India. He said that in the 21st century, some forces have adopted the “brain drain” theory (migration of skilled professionals), but Prime Minister Modi has turned it into the “brain gain” theory. Shah predicted an “educational revolution” as a result of the restoration of pride in our languages through the new education policy of the Modi government, which plans to provide technical, medical and legal studies in the country (in regional languages). He said that some people associate the use of the English language with intellectual ability, but there is no connection between them. Language is just a means of expression, while intellectual ability is a natural gift that can be enhanced through education, and if education is given in the mother tongue, it proves to be very helpful in improving intellectual ability, Shah said.
He said that after today’s launch, India will go a long way in global research and the world will get to know the intellectual potential of Indian students. Shah addressed students and told them to overcome the “linguistic inferiority complex.” Calling it an important day in history, Shah said Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country to launch the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course in Hindi. “This day will be written in history in golden letters,” Shah said.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is behind the Hindi initiative, and Medical Education Minister Vishvas Sarang were also in attendance. Shah said he is proud that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Madhya Pradesh has fulfilled Prime Minister Modi’s dream by starting medical studies in Hindi. “This moment marks the revival of the education sector in the country and I thank the Prime Minister for that,” he added. Shah said work is underway to start technical and medical education in eight other languages in the country. The MBBS Hindi course was launched as part of the NEP and will soon be launched in other languages, he said. Now students of the country will not have an inferiority complex about not knowing the English language and can study with pride in their language, the union’s interior minister said. “Modiji has called for the provision of medical and technical education in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali and other languages. I am proud that Madhya Pradesh, led by Chouhan, has become the first state to start medical education in Hindi,” he said. Shah previously said there were 387 medical colleges in the country with a total of 51,000 seats. Now, under the leadership of the Prime Minister, the country has 596 medical colleges with an additional 89,000 seats. The country previously had 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the number has now increased to 23, the number of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) has increased from 13 to 20, the number of universities from 723 to 1,043 and of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) from nine to 25, he said. Similarly, the number of other institutes at the national level has also increased significantly, he said. Shah praised CM Chouhan and Minister Sarang for taking the lead in the country in launching the MBBS Hindi course. Sarang, the driving force behind the move, said a team of 97 doctors prepared these textbooks in a mission mode. Chouhan said these textbooks contain technical terms written in Hindi as they are pronounced in English. For example, ‘kidney’ is only written as kidney. The prime minister said students from rural areas who could not get medical education due to lack of English skills would not be left behind and could take the MBBS Hindi course.
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