UGC Chairman Inspires Indian Authors to Write BA, BSc, and BCom Books in Regional Languages, Get Details

Textooks to be Translated in Regional Language: The University Grants Commission (UGC) chairperson Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar today spoke with Indian publishers in an attempt to bring out BA, BSc, and BCom textbooks in various Indian languages.

He also inspired Indian writers to write textbooks in their regional language.

Kumar stated that the UGC would serve as a nodal organisation to give publishers with all help and guidance on the selection of textbooks, translation resources, and editing specialists so that textbooks can be made available in a digital format at reasonable prices.

The official stated that Indian authors would be encouraged to create non-technical textbooks in Indian languages at the same time the well-known contemporary textbooks for BA, BSc, and BCom programmes are recognised and translated into Indian languages.

Books Will be Translated into 12 Indian Languages

The UGC praised the participating publisher and said that several textbooks would soon be translated into Indian languages.

International publishers met with the UGC Chairman on December 7 to discuss this, and he said that they expressed a willingness to collaborate on this national mission.

The commission has also established an apex committee to create a roadmap for translating the most popular textbooks into 12 Indian languages for undergraduate (UG) programmes in higher education institutions across the nation.

Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu are among the 12 regional languages.

Participants in the conference today included representatives from Universities Press, Taxmann Publications, Narosa Publishers, Viva Books, SciTech Publications, S Chand Publishers, Vikas Publishing, New Age Publishers, and Pearson India.

The meeting was also attended by representatives from Elsevier, Orient Blackswan, and Oxford University Press.

Technical books have been translated into Indian languages since last year, according to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

Several states have begun the process of translating MBBS and engineering textbooks into numerous regional languages.