We are very close to the Diamond Jubilee or the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence and the Government of India is still sitting over proposals to delineate specialised courses in mother tongue or vernacular language for rural people who struggle to learn the English language in order to attain technical knowledge. Be it engineering, medical or law, learning becomes passive and difficult without a good hold on English.
It is a stumbling block for those who have a background in a vernacular medium; their struggle, faced while pursuing professional courses, knows no bounds. Nevertheless, a new proposal has raised hopes and a wave of happiness runs across the hinterland, where budding talents are aspiring to take on specialised courses in the coming future. The government ought to expedite the process of implementing this policy in order to ensure that fresh admissions from 2021 and beyond are imparted English-free professional learning.