Education Ministry to set up taskforce for technical education in mother tongue, says Ramesh Pokhriyal

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced that the education ministry has set up a taskforce to prepare a roadmap to implement technical education in the mother tongue. The minister took the decision in a high-level meeting.

“The meeting today is a step in the direction towards achieving the prime minister’s vision that students may pursue professional courses such as medicine, engineering and law in their mother tongue,” Pokhriyal said, as per PTI.

“No language will be imposed on any student but enabling provisions should be made so that bright students are not



deprived of technical education due to lack of knowledge of the English language,” said the education minister.

Ramesh Pokhriyal said that the task force was under the chairmanship of Secretary, Higher Education. It would be taking suggestions from various stakeholders, consider them, and submit a report in a month.

The high-level meeting where the decision was taken also had in attendance Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare, IIT Directors, academicians and senior officials of the ministry. The meeting was being held to discuss how to implement the new National Education Policy (NEP).