The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) works with the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) to translate scientific and technical terms into Hindi and other Indian languages. The two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) consistent with AICTE’s goal of expanding engineering and technical education in Indian languages.
As part of the MOU, both AICTE and CSTT will work to define scientific and technical terms in Hindi and other modern Indian languages for the purposes of the teaching process, content creation such as textbooks, the Faculty Development Program (FDP), skills and vocational education, promotion of the Indian knowledge system in Hindi and Indian languages, and technology localization.
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AICTE will provide faculty training for Indian language teaching and learning. The CSTT will provide scientific and technical terminology for the various topics included in the syllabus of the programs conducted by AICTE in Hindi and other Indian languages. CSTT will also provide terminology training through workshops and seminars to facilitate the staff/teachers of the AICTE and its various departments/lectures.
“This will benefit millions of Indian students who want to study engineering in their Indian language. Together with CSTT, AICTE will ensure that the defined technical terms become part of textbooks prepared for technical education in various Indian languages. We believe this is a step towards inclusiveness and will inspire many students in remote areas to take technical education in their Indian language,” said AICTE President, Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe.
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The municipality has already translated 218 technical books into 11 Indian languages. AICTE had previously hired 3,000 translators and young interns to translate course materials from English into regional languages. However, it was a challenge for them to find the word equivalent of technical terms. They also had problems with formulas and tables.
“We have major problems with formulas and tables. But more importantly, what is going to take months to solve is finding the equivalent words for English terms in different regional languages. For example, what is “analysis” in your native language?” Buddha Chandrashekhar, CCO at AICTE had previously told News18.com.
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