Atal University to Provide MBBS in Hindi: Union Minister Amit Shah

New Delhi: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, will start offering MBBS in Hindi starting on October 16 this year. He cited the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which encourages technical courses in the mother tongue.

The NEP has encouraged mother language because a student can understand and conduct research more effectively when he thinks in his mother tongue, according to Shah, who spoke at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new campus of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in Lekawada of Gandhinagar on Tuesday.

Some individuals might find this unusual, but I want to emphasize that research is improved over rote learning when pupils think, discuss, and study in their mother tongue. For this reason, starting on October 16, the first semester of the MBBS programme at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya will be entirely taught in Hindi.

On Tuesday, the second day of his two-day visit to Gujarat, Shah laid the foundation stone for the 750-bed Adarsh Multispeciality Hospital in Kalol, the opening of an underpass in Gandhinagar constructed by the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation at the cost of Rs 34.74 crore.

He laid the cornerstone for a library and martyr memorial in Samoa village in the Mansa taluka of Gandhinagar district. He also went to the temples in Gandhinagar district's Rupal and Bahucharaji in Mansa.

Shah listed the advantages of the NEP, stating that it "is not simply a book, but a library... The study of Indian language, art, and culture has been prioritised. Modi Ji has taken the initiative to raise people's living standards by using technology," he continued.

When discussing the Indian economy, Shah noted that it was ranked 11th in the world before Narendra Modi became prime minister but is now the fifth-largest economy in the world.

According to Gujarat's chief minister, Bhupendra Patel, young people from Gujarat had to pay expensive tuition to pursue engineering or medicine in other states in the past. In response, 102 universities are now operational in the state, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Speaking to a crowd in Kalol town, Gandhinagar district, Shah claimed that since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, the healthcare situation has improved.

60 crore poor persons receive free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh under the Ayushman Bharat or PM-JAY scheme. Additionally, PM Modi has allotted Rs 64,000 crore to build the necessary health infrastructure to implement that programme. Under this programme, hospitals in 600 districts received 35,000 more beds, according to Shah.

The Umiya Mata Kadva Patidar Education and Samaj Seva Trust built the 750-bed Adarsh Multispeciality Hospital in Kalol in his Gandhinagar constituency, and Shah laid the cornerstone for it before.

"If there are no doctors in hospitals, what use is such infrastructure? In the pretext of enhancing medical education facilities, authorities were busy generating money during Congress's control. After taking power, PM Modi was the one who changed this situation, according to the Gandhinagar MP.

The minister also broke ground for an ESIC hospital in Kalol, which would expand the existing 50-bed, outdated hospital to 150 beds.

As a co-founder of the hospital and a former Kalol MLA, Dr. Atul Patel was also urged by Shah to "take advantage" of Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's attendance at the occasion to hasten and push for the opening of a medical college in addition to the trust-run hospital.

Should we take advantage of Mansukh Mandaviya's arrival today or not? You can apply, and following the regulations, Mansukhbhai will promptly prepare and authorize a medical college with 750 beds and some increased amenities (with the hospital).

Then Kalol's children will gain from it. I am pleading with Dr. Atul Patel to prepare not just a hospital but also a (medical) college so that our children can learn here and work in their local communities, Shah remarked.

Having set the cornerstone for the two hospitals, he continued, "Kalol will have about 850-bed facilities in the next two years."

Shah stressed the need to meet the health needs of the working population, stating that the only medical facility in Sanand, where approximately 1.30 lakh people work in one location, is a PHC with ten beds. A 350-bed ESIC hospital there had its foundation stone placed by us yesterday. We have erected the 500-bed ESIC hospitals' foundation in just two days.

Bhupendra Patel, the Gujarat chief minister, Bhupendra Yadav, the union minister for health, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Dr. AK Patel, a former member of parliament from Mehsana, were all in attendance.

Later that evening, Shah presided over a meeting at the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar, Kamalam, attended by leaders such as Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, party state president CR Patil, and party state general secretary Pradipsinh Vaghela.

Discussions on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Gujarat on September 29 and 30 took place in addition to those on assembly elections.

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