Med edu in Hindi not binding for pvt colleges in MP: Mantri

MINISTER SAID govt is soon going to set in motion the process to develop medical science curriculum in Hindi by holding deliberations on the issue with experts.

Madhya Pradesh medical education minister Vishwas Sarang on Wednesday said that while the government colleges are going to have medical courses in Hindi from the upcoming academic session, private colleges are free to take their call.

“But, we are not going to impose the new system of imparting medical education in Hindi on the private medical colleges in the state. They are free to take a call if they would adopt the new system”, Sarang told this newspaper.

The minister said the government is soon going to set in motion the process to develop medical science curriculum in Hindi by holding deliberations on the issue with the experts.

An expert committee comprising educationists as well as eminent academicians in medical education would soon be constituted to recommend syllabuses for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and develop the curriculums in Hindi.

Besides, the committee would also go deep into the logistic problems for imparting medical education in Hindi such as preparation of syllabus and acquainting the new system with the faculty members.

“Our major challenge is to prepare the medical science syllabus in Hindi”, he said.

Sarang said the government was mulling to entrust the responsibility of preparing the syllabus in Hindi to Atal Behari Vajpayee Hindi

University here. The university is already running diploma and degree courses in several streams of engineering in Hindi.

The process of developing medical science curriculum in Hindi will be completed within a month, he said.

He sought to dispel doubts that medical education in Hindi may affect the quality of medical education, saying, “Except a few nations, many countries like Japan, China, Russia, Germany and various others have been teaching these courses in their own languages and are progressing”.

“We have to break this mindset that progress is assured through English only”, he said.

Asked if students would be given the option of choosing between medical education in Hindi and English, he said, “A decision in this regard is yet to be taken”.