MBBS Hindi Textbooks Released
NEW DELHI, Oct 16: The Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released Hindi textbooks in three subjects for the first year medical students as part of the Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to impart medical education in Hindi medium.
Terming it as an important day in history, Mr. Shah said MP has become the first state in the country to start the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course in Hindi. “This day will be written in the history in golden letters,” he said while unveiling the textbooks of medical biochemistry, anatomy and medical physiology subjects in Hindi for the MBBS students at a function in Bhopal. MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Medical Education Minister Vishvas Sarang were present on the occasion.
Mr. Shah said the work is on to start technical and medical education in eight other languages of the country. The MBBS course in Hindi was launched as part of the National Education policy and soon it will be started in other languages also, he said.
Now, the students of the country will not have any inferiority complex about not knowing the English language and they can study with pride in their own language, the Union minister said.
He said earlier there were 387 medical colleges in the country having a total of 51,000 seats. Now, the number of medical colleges has gone up to 596 with an additional 89,000 seats.
The country had 16 Indian Institutes of Technology earlier, and the number has now gone up to 23, the number of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) has increased from 13 to 20, the number of universities from 723 to 1,043 and that of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) from nine to 25, he said.
Mr. Chouhan said these textbooks have technical terms written in Hindi the way they are pronounced in English, like ‘kidney’ is written as kidney only. The Chief Minister also said students from rural areas who were unable to get medical education because of lack of knowledge of English will not lag behind and will be able to pursue the MBBS course in Hindi.
(Manas Dasgupta)
