The Gujarat Technological University (GTU) announced that beginning with the upcoming academic session, the university will offer four undergraduate engineering programmes in Gujarati language.
From the academic session 2022-23, the constituent college Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute (GPERI) in Mehsana will also offer 30 seats in Civil, Mechanical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering in Gujarati medium.
Professor Navin Sheth, who is the Vice-Chancellor of GTU said that they tried to make the decision earlier but they were not successful due to some reasons. However, he assured that the upcoming academic session 2022-23 would mark the beginning of courses in Gujarati language.
He said, “The decision has been taken as per National Education Policy 2020 reforms suggested to offer technical courses in mother tongue. Last year, 19 institutes of 10 states started engineering programs in six regional languages.” He further added that this year onwards the university will begin the initiative from Mehsana.
In addition to these engineering programmes, the university will offer a number of diploma programmes in Gujarati. The instructions will be given in English, but students can write their responses in Gujarati as well.