Under its new National Education Policy, the government has been pushing for courses in mother tongue. AICTE has already given go-ahead to its affiliates.
Last year, 1.5 million students took the JEE to qualify for 13,000 seats in 23 IITs across the country – in other words, for each seat there were 115 aspirants.
While reputation of the IITs is a key factor in job opportunities, a number of professors ThePrint spoke to pointed to the effect the alumni network has had on the placement season.
National Commission for Backward Classes chairperson Bhagwan Lal Sahni hits out at govt panel recommendation to exempt all 23 IITs from implementing quota policy.
The number of Covid cases on the IIT campus is now 104; TN govt has written to all district collectors asking them to keep an eye on hostels as colleges reopen.
Education ministry releases statement saying engineering courses in mother tongue will be an option in some colleges, beginning 2021-22 academic session.
IIT Delhi director says matter will be discussed by Joint Admission Board. But this will be a one-time step and will be extended to only those who have exhausted their two attempts this year.
India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.
One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.
India doesn’t have uniformity in community like China and Japan have .India was notnot even considered a nation wholly before emergence of britishes .
.English is the only language which can bind us and even Hindi in North part of India .
I don’t know if the current government want to divide India on the basis of community.These idiots have already bragged for Hindu and Muslims.
Just think the situation it would be created in India if people would have learnt engineering in different languages , they won’t able to create something collectively .But even they would have opinion community wise and there would be ultimately chaos in exchange of ideas.
Bangalore would need a bunch of translators there which would take more time to create the same project. And the it hub of India would definitely fall down and the big mnc would show no interest in India afterwards.Unemployment would increase drastically . Modiji , we are already facing too much unemployment in India . You are not putting any efforts in it and just interested in privatisation , new like Sabha
but let others to ease there business aliances in India
?
India is not Japan or China and coping them won’t make us like them . India is India and has its own circumstances , community differences , diversity .If we won’t able to exchange our ideas then there would definitely a day when it would loose it’s charm and would same be underdeveloped nation
Let India be in future like India not Japan , China or Korea
IITs can switch to the elephant in the room, the obvious Indian alternative to English i.e. Hindi. If they can provide aid to students to improve English, they can provide the same aid to non-Hindi background folk for improving Hindi. As is, most students and professors in technical institutes converse among themselves in Hindi with English technical vocabulary which needs to be phased out eventually. Students from South India also do have a basic idea about Hindi because it is a compulsory subject in central government schools. Once the first few generations of Hindi taught engineers is created, there will not be any issue of finding skilled professors who can teach in Hindi. IITs should not make petty excuses or fear disappointing lingual minorities in taking this bold step.
By the politics of religion we have become a majoritarian country. Let’s do the same ind of majoritarianism politics linguistically.
In India, politics is everything. Meanwhile 50% of state govt schools don’t have proper drinking water or bathrooms. Why no politician talks about it? For that matter does the great NEP propose anything to tackle it ?
What is the use of so much noise if our primary education itself is in dire need of funds? But we have funds and bureaucratic bandwidth to promote languages in higher education!
So religion or language or caste is an opium of identity, isn’t it? It is a weapon for the political class to cleverly manipulate those identities and deceive the poor and the ignorant.
It is not the question of teaching. How will they ever learn current technolohical developments in the world? Which studenr would like to get a b.tech. degree in Hindi or other regional language? Where are the jobs and who wishes to restrict his life to his language state area? This is a rificulous and BJP will be wiped out or india will be wiped out.
What about a common language other than English
There will be difficulty in exchange of ideas and everywhere a translator would be necessary who might not be effective
Even in home state quota in NITs, not all students admitted in such quota will have same mother tongue as the state language. Why subject such students to this kind of bureaucratic nightmare.
Make it optional for students to take in English or state language. Even in North India though one is expected to speak in Hindi, not all students speak Hindi as their mother tongue.
The NEP should not be taken as a religion by the government. It should be treated as a set of recommendations, not a mandate. Some of the recommendations are impractical to be taken with a pinch of salt. May good sense be there in our political class.
Leave the premier institutes to do what they do best. There should be flexibility for them if you want them to be world class.
The NEP – did it contain anything to make our children become more creative, self-expresive and innovative? Or was it full of motherhood like sarkari recommendations?
India would have been a better country without English. Not all prosperous countries are English speaking countries. I am not opposed to learning English as a separate language. But, use of English as a language of instruction has put millions of Indians at a disadvantage. English is a clumsy and bastardized language. Its grammar and syntax have no consistency in the rules. Even after fifteen to twnety years of education, Indians speak bad English and write worse. Half of the effort of the students goes into mastering this chaotic European language. IITs should come out of their love for English and restructure the curriculum in Indian languages.
I don’t know if you’re an engineer or not but being an engineering student, i think english is best language of instruction. Textbook knowledge is never enough for becoming a good engineer. You have to learn from different sourceslike conferences, articles, research papers, which are all in English. I think all STEM courses should be strictly in English. By learning them in regional language, one will only limit his/her curiosity…
When most of the European, Chinese and Japanese technical institutions offer in their respective mother tongue, why is not possible here? Offering such courses here will not only open wide avenues but also nurture of our regional languages.
Is nurturing regional languages more important or having good quality engineering institutions more important?
There is no evidence to show that if we study and teach in Indian languages we will produce more world class engineers. It is curiosity and ability in chosen field that makes a good engineer not the language he speaks or studies in. Besides much of engineering is basically mathematics, and one does not excel in maths better simply because one studies maths in an Indian language.
I hope GOI does not increase irrelevant administrative load on premier institutes. Already we have Sanskrit departments at IIT. Next step surely add some more language departments at IIT too. The only benefit I see in all this is to give employment to some localites to become government employees at premier institutes not really for improving calibre of our engineers or our engineering professors or capabilities of our institutions.
Already migrant parents of school children are burdened with some states mandating to study state language as second language, no other choice offered.
Braille language sign language all tribal languages also extremely necessary.
India doesn’t have uniformity in community like China and Japan have .India was notnot even considered a nation wholly before emergence of britishes .
.English is the only language which can bind us and even Hindi in North part of India .
I don’t know if the current government want to divide India on the basis of community.These idiots have already bragged for Hindu and Muslims.
Just think the situation it would be created in India if people would have learnt engineering in different languages , they won’t able to create something collectively .But even they would have opinion community wise and there would be ultimately chaos in exchange of ideas.
Bangalore would need a bunch of translators there which would take more time to create the same project. And the it hub of India would definitely fall down and the big mnc would show no interest in India afterwards.Unemployment would increase drastically . Modiji , we are already facing too much unemployment in India . You are not putting any efforts in it and just interested in privatisation , new like Sabha
but let others to ease there business aliances in India
?
India is not Japan or China and coping them won’t make us like them . India is India and has its own circumstances , community differences , diversity .If we won’t able to exchange our ideas then there would definitely a day when it would loose it’s charm and would same be underdeveloped nation
Let India be in future like India not Japan , China or Korea
IITs can switch to the elephant in the room, the obvious Indian alternative to English i.e. Hindi. If they can provide aid to students to improve English, they can provide the same aid to non-Hindi background folk for improving Hindi. As is, most students and professors in technical institutes converse among themselves in Hindi with English technical vocabulary which needs to be phased out eventually. Students from South India also do have a basic idea about Hindi because it is a compulsory subject in central government schools. Once the first few generations of Hindi taught engineers is created, there will not be any issue of finding skilled professors who can teach in Hindi. IITs should not make petty excuses or fear disappointing lingual minorities in taking this bold step.
The politics of language !
By the politics of religion we have become a majoritarian country. Let’s do the same ind of majoritarianism politics linguistically.
In India, politics is everything. Meanwhile 50% of state govt schools don’t have proper drinking water or bathrooms. Why no politician talks about it? For that matter does the great NEP propose anything to tackle it ?
What is the use of so much noise if our primary education itself is in dire need of funds? But we have funds and bureaucratic bandwidth to promote languages in higher education!
So religion or language or caste is an opium of identity, isn’t it? It is a weapon for the political class to cleverly manipulate those identities and deceive the poor and the ignorant.
It is not the question of teaching. How will they ever learn current technolohical developments in the world? Which studenr would like to get a b.tech. degree in Hindi or other regional language? Where are the jobs and who wishes to restrict his life to his language state area? This is a rificulous and BJP will be wiped out or india will be wiped out.
What about a common language other than English
There will be difficulty in exchange of ideas and everywhere a translator would be necessary who might not be effective
Even in home state quota in NITs, not all students admitted in such quota will have same mother tongue as the state language. Why subject such students to this kind of bureaucratic nightmare.
Make it optional for students to take in English or state language. Even in North India though one is expected to speak in Hindi, not all students speak Hindi as their mother tongue.
The NEP should not be taken as a religion by the government. It should be treated as a set of recommendations, not a mandate. Some of the recommendations are impractical to be taken with a pinch of salt. May good sense be there in our political class.
Leave the premier institutes to do what they do best. There should be flexibility for them if you want them to be world class.
The NEP – did it contain anything to make our children become more creative, self-expresive and innovative? Or was it full of motherhood like sarkari recommendations?
India would have been a better country without English. Not all prosperous countries are English speaking countries. I am not opposed to learning English as a separate language. But, use of English as a language of instruction has put millions of Indians at a disadvantage. English is a clumsy and bastardized language. Its grammar and syntax have no consistency in the rules. Even after fifteen to twnety years of education, Indians speak bad English and write worse. Half of the effort of the students goes into mastering this chaotic European language. IITs should come out of their love for English and restructure the curriculum in Indian languages.
I don’t know if you’re an engineer or not but being an engineering student, i think english is best language of instruction. Textbook knowledge is never enough for becoming a good engineer. You have to learn from different sourceslike conferences, articles, research papers, which are all in English. I think all STEM courses should be strictly in English. By learning them in regional language, one will only limit his/her curiosity…
When most of the European, Chinese and Japanese technical institutions offer in their respective mother tongue, why is not possible here? Offering such courses here will not only open wide avenues but also nurture of our regional languages.
Is nurturing regional languages more important or having good quality engineering institutions more important?
There is no evidence to show that if we study and teach in Indian languages we will produce more world class engineers. It is curiosity and ability in chosen field that makes a good engineer not the language he speaks or studies in. Besides much of engineering is basically mathematics, and one does not excel in maths better simply because one studies maths in an Indian language.
I hope GOI does not increase irrelevant administrative load on premier institutes. Already we have Sanskrit departments at IIT. Next step surely add some more language departments at IIT too. The only benefit I see in all this is to give employment to some localites to become government employees at premier institutes not really for improving calibre of our engineers or our engineering professors or capabilities of our institutions.
Already migrant parents of school children are burdened with some states mandating to study state language as second language, no other choice offered.