Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
The Madhya Pradesh government is all set to launch MBBS in the Hindi language. Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College will be the first institution to have the course in Hindi from the next academic session. The state medical education minister Vishwas Sarang announced that MP will be the first state to offer a Hindi-medium course.
Talking about the curriculum, he said, “Directives have been issued to start the MBBS course in Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College in Hindi from the next session starting within two months. A 14-member committee headed by Medical Education Director Dr. Jiten Shukla has been constituted to prepare the work plan for the MBBS Hindi curriculum.”
He also mentioned that this step has been taken after the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made an announcement this Republic Day that the state will launch MBBS and other medical courses in Hindi.
In a statement issued by the state public relations department, lectures will also be delivered in Hindi apart from English. The minister had spoken to the experts a few days ago in order to get books prepared in Hindi for first-year MBBS students, in the presence of functionaries from Atal Bihari Hindi University and Gandhi Medical College.
