Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 18 (Maxim News): A nationwide change will take place in the Higher Education system, especially in undergraduate courses from which the students intend to do BA, B.Com, and B.Sc. courses will be able to graduate in their mother tongue.
In view of this, preparations have begun to make the course books available in languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, and Telugu among others.
The University Grants Commission (UGC), under an initiative by the Union Ministry of Education, is engaging with publishers to translate English textbooks into various Indian languages. leading publishers of textbooks, Universities Press, representatives of Oxford University Press, Orient Blackswan, and Elsevier participated in the high-level meeting. on bringing out undergraduate English textbooks in Indian languages.
UGC, as part of NEP-2020, is working towards getting the most popular textbooks translated for UG programs in higher education institutions across the country in the 12 Indian languages.
UGC chairman Professor M.Jagadesh Kumar said that the Commission will act as a nodal agency to provide help and support to the publishers with regard to the identification of textbooks, translation tools, and editing experts so that the books can be made affordable in the digital format. Indian authors will be encouraged to write textbooks in Indian languages for non-technical subjects. He said that the focus will be on the translation of existing textbooks which will later be extended to postgraduate programs. (Maxim News)
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