New Delhi: Under the new education policy, now technical education will be made available in regional languages. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is working on translating the curriculum even amidst the Corona pandemic. Anil Sahasrabudhe, the Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education informed about the same in his virtual address to the top officials of leading technical educational institutions in the country. At an event organized by the Education Culture Upliftment Trust on Tuesday on the topic 'Role of Educational Institutions in the circumstances of Corona', the AICTE President spoke about the implementation of the new education policy in the country's technical institutions from this year itself.
He also said that a software has been developed by the All India Council for Technical Education with the help of artificial intelligence and that so far the entire syllabus of the first year of engineering in five languages has been translated into the mother tongue and the books will also be published by the start of the session. So far, translation of the first-year course has been done in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bangla and Hindi while work is in progress on Oriya, Assamese and Malayalam.
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The new education policy aims to provide the option of higher education in a total of 11 Indian languages, but the translation work related to the curriculum pertaining to technical education has turned into a big challenge. Anil Sahasrabudhe said that the work on the translation had been on for 3 years, and was intensified following the implementation of the new education policy. The Vice-Chancellors of many big educational institutions of the country were contacted for their cooperation in this aspect.
Students pursuing engineering first year will get the option to study the curriculum in their regional language from this session, while those pursuing their second, third and fourth-year students may have to wait longer. Appreciating the work done by the institutions, Anil Sahasrabudhe said that the role of technology has also been important in fighting the epidemic. While advising everyone to use the word 'physical distancing' instead of 'social distancing', he said that at present physical distancing is necessary but there is a need to cooperate and help each other by eliminating social distance.
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