Twenty-four medical schools in Madhya Pradesh have made an offer that makes one sit up and notice. Now the teachers can teach and assess medical students using medical textbooks in Hindi. Students have also an option of writing their exams in Hindi. For first MBBS students, the state government has developed, and recently released Hindi textbooks to learn anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry. Teachers will use Hindi and English to teach in classrooms and conduct their seminars.
Dinesh Sharma covered this issue in Lancet ( 5 November 2022). He had telephonically asked me my views on the pluses and minuses of using native languages for teaching and learning.
Here is a PDF of the Lancet article.
