IndiGlobal Bureau
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah said students’ ability to think, reason, analyse, research will increase with education in mother tongue. He further added that India would be No 1 in the world in 25 years with the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
He said that work is underway to translate regional languages the syllabi of technical, medical and higher education courses. Rote learning has been the bane of Indian education system and British education did not facilitate research, reason and analyses.
“If a student reads, speaks and thinks in the mother tongue, then it will increase his ability to think, his reasoning power, the capability of analysis, and research will naturally emerge within this child,” Shah said.
“The fundamental change in the NEP is to educate students in their mother tongue at primary and secondary level as far as possible. I am confident in another two, five, seven years, all the students in the country will be imparted education in their mother tongue and their mothers will be able to teach them in their language,” he said.
Gujarati, Telugu, Odia, Punjabi and Bengali – higher and medical education courses will begin in all these languages. From there, India will begin to contribute significantly in research and development,” he said.
Shah said a person is able to have original thinking only when the subject to ponder over is taught in his mother tongue, and the new education policy will help provide a platform to a child’s inherent capacities like art and music etc.
“NEP has created a big role for commercial and skill education. More than 50 per cent students will be connected to commercial education before Class 10, and this will help to take them towards self-employment, micro and cottage industry,” Shah asserted.
