The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) released a calendar for outcome-based engineering book discussion for undergraduate and diploma level books in different Indian languages . The publication of the Engineering Book Discussion calendar is in accordance with the National Education Strategy (NEP) 2020 goal to make technical training accessible in Indian mother tongues .
New Delhi, India (AICTE): On Tuesday, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) released a calendar for AICTEs outcome-based engineering book discussion for undergraduate and diploma level books in different Indian languages.The publication of the Engineering Book Discussion calendar is in accordance with the National Education Strategy (NEP) 2020 goal to make technical training accessible in Indian mother tongues.The first series of AICTE talks started on November 29 and will continue until January 31, 2023.According to a Reuters official release, the first series of discussions, which will begin on January 31, 2023, will include first-year engineering books in Hindi, Odia, and Marathi languages as well as second-year engineering books in English language from the five major disciplines: Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, and Communications, Civil and Computer Science.
The statement also stated that the AICTE engineering books in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Urdu, and Assamese will be discussed in the next phase of book discussion.Professor M Jagadesh Kumar, Chairwoman of AICTE New Delhi, said on the occasion that NEP 2022 has taught us that learning must occur in students' own languages.You will see that in each nation, children study from a young age to PhD in their own mother tongues if you look at the list of the top ten countries with the most Nobel Prize winners.According to the statement issued by the AICTE, Mathematics-1 and 2, Applied Physics-1, Applied Physics-2, Engineering Graphics, and Environmental Science (all diploma levels) are among the first-year courses covered in discussions, according to the AICTE. In the year 2021-22, AICTE has developed a technical book writing program to provide study material in Indian languages: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Odia.Assamese, Urdu, and Malayalam These books, AICTE says, have the capability to be used in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Centrally Funded Technical Institute (CFTIs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and AICTE-approved institutes.AICTE is distributing one set of books in Indian languages to the libraries of each state's degree and diploma program.According to the council, AICTE has already begun the process for the second year of original book writing in English, followed by its translation into 12 Indian languages in 2022-23.