NEW DELHI: The RSS’ education wing, Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal (BSM), is pitching for inclusion of regional languages in engineering and medical colleges largely dominated by local students in the upcoming New Education Policy (NEP) being drafted by Narendra Modi government.
The head of the RSS-affiliate BSM, Mukul Kanitkar, said the New Education Policy will cater to the need of local students who cannot be left behind only because they are not good in English.
“Such barriers have to be cleared. Weare not looking at pushing for an option for regional languages at IITs or other premier institutions where students come from across the country. We are purely looking at institutions like engineering colleges, NITs and other engineering and medical colleges, where we must give an option to students to study in regional languages largely followed in that particular state,” Kanitkar said.
“After completing the course, doctors will speak in the regional language with patients and not in English. The government has allowed students to appear for NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, a national-level medical entrance test) in regional languages. Once they are admitted, they have to study in English only,” said Kanitkar. All professional courses in medical and engineering are taught in English in India.
RSS’s move to pitch for regional languages comes at a time when hundreds of students are expelled from IITs every year as they fail to pass engineering examinations. English as a medium of instruction is a major cause for students’ poor performance.
Interestingly, while government is pushing for coming up with the New Education Policy (NEP) by this year end, RSS affilated-BSM that is dedicated to evolve indigenous model of education wants government not to hurry and take time as the policy must have a vision for next three decades.