Fascination with English is roadblock to development, says Amit shah

While speaking during a programme on the New Education Policy 2020 in Bhopal, Home Minister Amit Shah said India’s fascination with the English language had prevented 95 % of the country’s talent from contributing to its progress.

Home Minister Amit Shah attended a programme on the New Education Policy 2020 in Bhopal and while addressing the event, he said India’s fascination with the English language had prevented 95% of the country’s talent from contributing to its progress.

“How do you fault someone who did not have access to an English medium school in childhood? Due to our fascination with English, we are only using 5% of our talent in developing the country because even today, 95% of the children study in their mother tongue. Are they not talented? We have limited the scope of our development,” said Mr Shah, as reported by English G7 Tamil.

Local languages getting their dues during Modi govt, said Amit Shah

While highlighting the steps taken by the PM Modi-led government to introduce local languages into the Indian education system, he said that today the JEE and NEET exams were being conducted in 12 Indian languages, the Common University Entrance Test in 13 languages and 20 colleges in 10 States were ready with curriculum for Engineering (up to M Tech) in languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Bangla and Gujarati.

“The day those studying in local languages get their due, the country will shine like the sun on the world’s horizon because even using 5% of the country’s talent, the country, under [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, is a leader in every field,” he added.

“The NEP is India’s soul and a declaration of Bharatiyata (Indianness)… The seed that Mr. Modi has sown in the form of this policy, will grow into a huge tree and give shade the whole world in the next few years,” said the Home Minister.

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan also addressed the gathering and shared similar views. He said Madhya Pradesh was the first state in the country that would start teaching medical courses in Hindi from the upcoming academic session in one of the medical colleges and even the textbooks for that had been printed.

Despite National Medical Commission's (NMC) statement earlier that MBBS in Hindi is not feasible, Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College teaches MBBS in Hindi in three subjects Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry.

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