A workshop on book writing in Indian languages was organised at Rabindranath Tagore University on Tuesday.

The Chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University Santosh Choubey, informed that  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that higher education including technical and medical education should be imparted in mother tongue and local languages.

The National Education Policy 2020 envisages that school level education should be given preference in mother tongue only. Also, this policy also envisages giving higher education in Indian languages only. Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of five universities of AISECT Group were specially present in this workshop along with Chancellor  Santosh Chaubey of Rabindranath Tagore University. Also, more than one thousand professor colleagues showed online presence in this workshop.

Santosh Choubey said in his address that most of the youth in rural areas have 10 + 2 education from their mother tongue, but they do not have access to higher education especially technical education. The center of all these problems is the lack of course material in Indian languages, due to which students are unable to continue further studies.

Santosh Choubey further said that the University of the AISECT Group is committed to creating course materials of higher education including technical education in Indian languages, especially Hindi language. University teachers of our group will produce quality course materials in Indian languages.

Vice Chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University, Brahmaprakash Pethia said that digital technology can be made universal by the use of Indian languages. Priority should be given to increase teaching-training and research in all areas of knowledge science including Hindi in Indian languages. C.V. Vice Chancellor of Raman University, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh),R. P. Dubey said that we have to develop Indian and local languages as knowledge. There is a need to prepare books and audio-video material for this. With this, students can easily acquire knowledge in their language.

Coordinator of the core research group of the university, Prof. V.K. Verma said that local languages can play a significant role in enhancing the quality of higher education. There should be multilingual proficiency in teachers and students.

At the end of the workshop, it was determined that by the end of March, about 25 books would be published by the University.