Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu, during a special programme at Jaydev Bhawan in Bhubaneswar on Friday, launched Engineering books of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in Odia language.
The translated books are available in portal called e-KUMBH which was launched by the President today in presence of Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. She also launched the Glossary of the technical term developed by CSTT in Odia Languages.
Addressing the audience at the event, Murmu said that the intellectual development of a child educated in mother tongue is more than others. The government will try its best to remove barriers to education, ensuring that no one is deprived of the basic right to education.
She opined that education in mother tongue has been emphasized in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The government is giving importance to the development of talent at the grassroots level.
It is pertinent to mention that the major emphasis of NEP-2020 is to impart education in mother tongue so as to enhance the creativity, critical thinking among the students. In alignment with the provisions, AICTE has initiated Technical Book writing scheme initially in nine languages viz Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, and Odia.
