NEW DELHI: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has enabled schools to provide engineering diploma at as many as nine regional languages, such as Marathi, in the newest academic year (2020-21). The other languages where it might be accessible will be Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada and Malayalam. The movement could help aspirants, especially from tribal and rural areas, to attain their own wishes. Until date, many smart students used to steer clear of these types of classes because of anxiety about English. Many advanced nations such as Germany, France, Russia, Japan and China impart whole instruction in their languages. “The goal is to impart specialized instruction to the pupils into their mother tongue that they can grasp the principles in a far greater manner,” explained AICTE chairman Anil Sahastrabuddhe. “We have received about 500 programs from the whole nation. We have planned to provide UG engineering classes at 11 more languages in future. AICTE is providing class material in these languages as well as deploying classes taught under Swayam and gigantic open online class (MOOC) portal sites,” he told TOI.