Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on August 28 that the Central Government is promoting education in engineering, technical, and medical courses in local languages as well, while also urging students to preserve their mother tongue by using it religiously at home.
At the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSUfirst )’s convocation ceremony in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar, Shah addressed the graduating students.
Wishing the graduating students, a bright future, he urged them, “If you want to be happy and satisfied, then working for others should be your top priority.”
“I wish to tell the students and youth that irrespective of the medium of their studies, make sure you at least maintain using your mother tongue at home. We are now even promoting education in the mother tongue in engineering, technical and medical courses,” he added.
Stressing on this point, the Union Home Minister added, “Preserve your own language. It is my request to you to speak, write and read in your own language at home.”
The new National Education Policy
Shah mentioned the new National Education Policy (NEP), emphasising the importance of developing a new curriculum and establishing universities to meet the needs of the country’s future needs in order to connect the youth with development.
“The NEP puts an emphasis on providing knowledge and skill to the youth on the basis of future requirements. This is also being accomplished here,” he said.
He expressed confidence that NFSU’s graduating students would work to achieve the purpose for which the NFSU was set up. Shah called it significant that they got these degrees during the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations.
Amit Shah said, “The journey of 75 years of independence has been beautiful, exciting and result-oriented, but our struggle for freedom was very painful. I would like to tell you all that do not even for a moment forget that someone has sacrificed his everything (to achieve the goal of an) independent and sovereign India in which you are breathing today,” Shah said.
He said if they kept this close to their hearts, they would surely work for the country’s progress along with their own growth.
