IIIT Bhagalpur to start BTech in Hindi from 2021-22 academic session

The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bhagalpur said the knowledge of both English and Hindi will help students in getting placement in national and multinational companies. 

As per a report published in NEWS18, IIIT Bhagalpur will start BTech in Hindi from the 2021-22 academic session. The institute’s registrar in charge Gaurav Kumar said the semester would be selected on the basis of the letter received from the ministry. Once the semester is selected, the course material will also eventually be ready. 

Arvind Choubey, Director, IIIT Bhagalpur, said as per the instructions, both teaching and explaining would take place in Hindi, which was indeed a challenging task. “Hope the teachers will do better work in this direction. Students should also understand Hindi well and include it in their reading work,” he said. 

Choubey said students, along with foreign languages, should also have equal command over Hindi and English. He said the knowledge of both languages would help students in getting placement in national and multinational companies. 

One of the many challenges the teachers will face is preparing material in Hindi and explain it to students. This is because most of the teachers have completed their education in English and have been teaching in the same language for years now. Students and teachers have also pointed out the need for a Hindi dictionary. 

Earlier this month, another college in Bihar, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna announced that the new session (2021-22) of BTech course will also be taught in Hindi. Director of NIT Patna, Pradeep Kumar Jain, had stated that the college decided to introduce the system of teaching the higher courses in Hindi from the first semester (2021-22) of the BTech course. He further said students would have the option of studying the course in English too. 

The All India Council for Technology Education (AICTE) under the suggestion of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 had earlier allowed colleges to offer engineering degrees in regional languages starting with five languages in the first phase — Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali — from the 2020-21 academic year. The council is translating courses and creating online and offline content in 11 different languages. 

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