Madhya Pradesh students will have an option to study medical courses in Hindi soon with the government planning to set up a committee to prepare a course module and make recommendations for smooth implementation.
State medical education minister Vishvas Sarang announced this on the occasion of Hindi Day on Tuesday. He said that the option to study in Hindi will make the course easier for the students.
The minister said that an expert committee will be set up to finalise the course module completely in Hindi and to resolve any practical problems arising in implementing the Hindi course. Though no time limit has yet been decided for the exercise, it will be done as soon as possible, Sarang said.
The announcement of the minister comes close on the heels of the state government's decision to introduce life sketches and teachings of RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar and BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhayaya among other personalities in the medical foundation course.
While announcing this last week, Sarang had said that the life and ideals of these personalities would inculcate ethics and morals in the students.
Ramcharitmanas in BA course
In another decision on the higher education front, the state government has decided to offer teachings of epic 'Ramcharitmanas' as an elective subject under the philosophy discipline for Bachelor of Arts first-year students. The students will also be learning about Lord Hanumana and Ramcharitmanas author Tulsidas as part of the course.
Higher education minister Mohan Yadav said on Monday that the elective course called 'applied philosophy of Shri Ramcharitmanas' has been introduced in the current academic session 2021-22 on the recommendation of the syllabus committee.
The minister said that this was not about religion and that Ramcharitmanas had the elements of science, culture, literature and shringar ras, the concept of love and beauty and Indian classical art forms. He added that students are also being offered Urdu Ghazals as a subject. The minister said that the 60-hour long elective course is aimed at developing humanitarian perspective and ability of balanced leadership quality among students.
Opposition Congress has criticised the government on both the Hedgewar-Upadhyaya and Ramcharitmanas decisions. As for the former decision, the party said that it was an attempt to impose the ideology of BJP on everyone and as for Ramcharitmanas decision, the Congress said that if the BJP was intent on its 'sabka saath sabka vikas' slogan then texts of other religions should have been introduced in the course. Congress leaders also said that the students needed a focus on employment-oriented courses and skills and these are attempts by the government to hide their failures on development and employment fronts.
