'Momentous stride': Nitin Gadkari applauds CBSE's step to promote multilingual education
ALSO READ: Use Indian languages to teach, CBSE tells schools as NCERT prioritizes making textbooks available The board emphasized the need for schools to collaborate and pool available resources to effectively implement multilingual education. The CBSE acknowledged the efforts made by higher education authorities to provide education in multiple languages and conduct exams in different languages.
Technical, medical, vocational, skill, and law education textbooks are also being made available in Indian languages. With higher education institutions already adapting to this need, the CBSE believes that schools must become the foundation of multilingual education.
The Ministry of Education has directed the NCERT to prepare new textbooks in 22 scheduled Indian languages on a priority basis. This initiative will ensure that students have access to quality educational materials in their mother tongue or other Indian languages.
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