Home Minister announces Atal University will offer MBBS in Hindi from Oct 16

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah announced that from 16 October this year, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, will offer MBBS in Hindi. The minister said this with regard to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which aims to promote technical courses in the mother tongue.

At the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new campus of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in Lekawada of Gandhinagar on Tuesday, Shah said, “The NEP has encouraged mother language as when a student thinks in his mother tongue, he can understand and research



better. Some people might find this strange but I want to reiterate that when students think, talk, and study in their mother tongue, they can research better, unlike rote learning. That is the reason from October 16, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya will offer a complete first semester of MBBS course in Hindi.”

Listing out the benefits of the NEP, Shah said, “The National Education Policy is not just a book, but a library… Priority has been given to the Indian language, art, and culture. Modi Ji has taken the initiative to improve the standard of living of people through technology.”