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An astounding new development put into practice by IIT Jodhpur to make engineering education more inclusive has declared that it will introduce the BTech programme in Hindi, along with English. This program, ratified by the Ministry of Education, will start from the academic year 2024-25. Admission to this program shall be given based on the candidate’s JEE Advanced 2024 result, ensuring that students from diverse linguistic backgrounds can pursue their engineering dreams without the language barrier.
From the beginning of this academic year, IIT Jodhpur will officially launch two distinct classes for the BTech programme with language reference. As for the sections students will have the choice between Hindi and English ones. However, students of different sections will be taught by the same instructors, which enhances the quality and stringency of the education they receive. This is a significant step to improving inclusion and is geared towards helping the students to understand as well as interrelate with the course content in the required language.
The Director of IIT Jodhpur, Professor Avinash Kumar Agarwal, stressed on the necessity of this step in connection with the NEP 2020.
He said, “Delivering the first-year courses both in Hindi and English will help the students to understand the content and interact with it as well, thereby making their transition to the academic climate of IIT Jodhpur easier.”
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Among the main reasons for pursuing such a measure, is, for instance, the language barrier revealed in the majority of students coming from non-English speaking countries. In India, a handsome number of students who get through the JEE Advanced examination are SC/ST or study in Hindi medium schools. To these students, the switch to the system of english medium instruction can be a bar to learning and may have a negative influence on their academic achievement.
IIT Jodhpur has made a noble initiative by introducing courses in Hindi for the facility of the students so that there may not be any discrimination between the students of different mediums of instruction. But making a quality education for all a reality is the commitment of IIT Jodhpur.
Being a newly established institution, IIT Jodhpur is 30th among engineering colleges and 66th in the NIRF ranking of India in the year 2023. This is a recognized university that can only afford to produce quality education and research. Introducing a foreign language as one of the mediums in offering a BTech program is one of the ways IIT Jodhpur demonstrates its policy of providing equal opportunities for all and offering quality education to all.
In a statement, IIT Jodhpur, further stated that students could freely move between Hindi and English sections, in case they felt like it. This is done in a way that follows the gradual building of the students’ interactional readiness in the language of instruction. This being the case, all the students will be offered equal quality services regardless of the section they choose which will help in maintaining the quality, clarity, and standards of all the learning services offered by the institution.
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Till now we have discussed how IIT Jodhpur offers a Bilingual BTech program Then let’s discuss the scholarships available for the UG & PG students in IIT Jodhpur. With these scholarships, students are to be financially aided and helped to achieve their studies regardless of their financial status.
Thus, the bilingual BTech programme, along with scholarships and other forms of support, directly highlights IIT Jodhpur’s model of education. This means that through encouraging the use of interpreters and providing funds to support students the institution wants to give every student a fair chance at education.
There is also the new NEP 2020 program where the focus is given to multilingual education. Where the question of making education more inclusive is raised. One of the examples studied in the present work is IIT Jodhpur’s decision to launch BTech courses in Hindi and English, which fully complies with the provisions of NEP 2020. In this regard, the policy’s vision of education for all that does not discriminate between the languages used by the learners is served well by offering instructions in both languages.
The IIT Jodhpur’s decision to teach BTech in Hindi and English is deemed a historical change in the process of engineering education in the Indian context. This initiative, which is in line with the NEP 2020, tackles the language switch that many students experience and guarantees that all learners will get adequate education regardless of the language they speak at home. While the first batch of students steps into this path in bilingual education, IIT Jodhpur has the potential to come up as the exemplar of an inclusive education system in India.
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