AICTE goals to publish engineering textbooks in 12 Indian languages by 2026 to spice up inclusive schooling
NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Schooling (AICTE) is enterprise a serious initiative to offer textbooks for all engineering diploma and diploma programmes in 12 Indian languages by December 2026, with efforts already in progress throughout numerous topics and educational ranges.
In an interview with ANI, AICTE Chairman Prof T G Sitharam stated that round 600 textbooks for first and second-year engineering diploma and diploma programs have already been ready and uploaded in 12 regional languages. These embody Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
He additional stated that the work on third and fourth-year textbooks is in progress.
“Now we have already accomplished the books for 2 years–first and second year–both diploma and diploma. For the third and fourth years, work is in progress. Now we have already accomplished round 40 to 50 books for the third yr as effectively,” he stated.
The AICTE is the governing organisation for university-affiliated and autonomous technical establishments.
These textbooks, developed as per AICTE’s mannequin curriculum, cowl core branches like civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, and pc science engineering.
“These are state-of-the-art books developed to assist college students perceive ideas of their mom tongue,” Sitharam stated.
Every chapter in these books consists of unit goals, outcome-based studying components, and problem-solving workouts to make the content material extra structured and goal-oriented, he added.
AICTE is utilizing synthetic intelligence to hurry up the interpretation course of. “We are actually utilizing our personal deep studying mannequin, which might translate a guide in about 10 minutes with round 80 p.c accuracy. The specialists learn and proper it,” the Chairman stated.
Although there are 22 recognised languages within the Indian structure, the present focus is on 12 main languages as a consequence of funding constraints.
Sitharam stated the initiative is just not necessary however designed to offer an possibility for college kids who’re extra comfy learning of their mom tongue.
“We’re not forcing any scholar to review in a regional language. That is about offering an possibility. Many college students from rural areas are extra comfy learning of their mom tongue,” he added.
When requested concerning the employability of scholars who graduate after learning in regional languages, Sitharam acknowledged the challenges however careworn that the federal government is dedicated to creating this mannequin work.
“The problem is clearly there. The federal government must run consciousness campaigns, inform industries to provide these college students an opportunity. For a lot of, English turns into a double burden–first they should study the topic, and on prime of that, study a language. In the event that they perceive the topic effectively in their very own language, they are going to be higher engineers,” he stated.
He added that many international locations like Canada and Switzerland enable college students to pursue greater schooling in native languages similar to French or German, and India shouldn’t be an exception.
Sitharam stated this effort is not going to solely empower college students in rural and semi-urban areas but additionally make engineering schooling extra inclusive and accessible.
