Why in the News?
The Union Home Ministry has proposed compiling a standard English medical dictionary titled Medical Shabd Sindhu, which will be translated into 15 Indian languages to support medical education in regional languages under the National Education Policy 2020.
About the Initiative
- Led by the Department of Official Language under the Ministry of Home Affairs
- Compilation of a standard English medical dictionary
- At least 1,00,000 unique medical terms with explanations
- Translation into 15 Indian languages in Phase I
Languages include:
- Hindi, Telugu, Assamese, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Manipuri, Mizo and Konkani
- Later expansion to remaining Indian languages
Institutional Background
- Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology under the Education Ministry has translated around 60,000 medical terms into Hindi so far
- Madhya Pradesh became the first State to offer MBBS in Hindi in 2022
- Initially, transliterated textbooks were provided in subjects such as anatomy, physiology and biochemistry
Objectives
- Promote medical education in mother tongue
- Remove language barriers in professional courses
- Strengthen regional language knowledge systems
- Support NEP 2020 emphasis on multilingual education
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