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The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai announced Saturday that the MBBS course in the state will now be offered in Hindi from the ongoing academic session.
The announcement was made on the occasion of ‘Hindi Diwas’. Sai said his government was happy to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to impart medical education in Hindi which he had expressed during a rally in Uttar Pradesh in 2022.
“Our government has taken a big decision on Hindi Diwas. The MBBS course will now also be taught in Hindi. Books in Hindi will be introduced in the first year from this session (2024-25). The health department has been asked to arrange books and study materials,” he told local reporters.
The move was part of efforts to “change our education policy at every level from the old Macaulay imperialist education policy”. he also claimed that National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 had been fully implemented in Chhattisgarh.
“The move will benefit students from rural areas since they mostly come from Hindi medium schools and face difficulty in medical courses despite being talented due to the use of English language. Studying in Hindi will strengthen their basics, help them develop a deep understanding of the subject and make them good doctors,” Sai asserted.
Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14 every year to commemorates the decision taken by the Constituent Assembly in 1949 to designate Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, as the official language of the Union of India.
