Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 20: M Venkaiah Naidu, a former vice president of India, praised UGC Chairman Jagadeesh Kumar on Thursday for his letter to universities encouraging students to take exams in their native languages even when English is the medium of instruction.
Taking to Twitter, Naidu said, “The UGC Chairman, Prof. Jagadeesh Kumar deserves to be commended for his letter to Universities to allow students to write examinations in local languages even if the medium of instruction is English. Promotion of the teaching-learning process in the mother tongue is a welcome move.”
The UGC Chairman, Prof. Jagadeesh Kumar deserves to be commended for his letter to Universities to allow students to write examinations in local languages even if the medium of instruction is English. Promotion of the teaching-learning process in mother tongue is a welcome move.
— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) April 20, 2023
The former vice president stated that he has always supported using the mother tongue more frequently in education and that he is “pleased with this development”.
“It is high time we shed the colonial legacy which had been impeding our all-around socio-economic growth and give equal importance to local languages,” he added.
Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, stressed the value of the mother tongue earlier in March of this year and advised individuals to shed their “inferiority complex” when using it, noting that it is a tool for personality development.
The New Education Policy has been praised by the Home Minister, who noted that it combines the ideas of luminaries like BR Ambedkar and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
“In the New Education Policy, it also includes the thoughts of Sayari Rao regarding accessible education, the thoughts of Sardar Patel on women empowerment, and the thoughts of BR Ambedkar regarding education for knowledge. Do anything in your life, but do not leave your mother tongue. Get out of the inferiority complex that you will not be accepted by your language. Language is an expression,” Shah said.
“If any person thinks in his own language, he thinks well. If he conducts his research, the capability of his research increases manifold. There can be no bigger medium of personality building than the mother tongue. I urge all of you to come out of the inferiority complex,” he added explaining the advantages of using mother tongue.
