Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur has set up the Shivani Centre for the benefit of candidates across the country.
Reportedly, the IIT will flag off the project in a time-bound manner, with focus on strategic interventions.
This will include preparatory material, indexing of objectives, translation of courses into Hindi and OILs along with the development of relevant software and technological tools.
The Centre is pegged to IIT-K's step forward to diversify its social-academic milieu and pave a way for the non-English speaking student to harness the best of career or growth opportunities.
According to the news reports, the institute has been set up by IIT-K alumnus Mr Muktesh Pant in the memory of his mother Smt Gaura Pant, Shivani.
In a statement, alumnus Pant stated that though knowledge of languages is an asset, fluency in English should not be a parameter in getting advanced education in engineering.
IIT Kanpur has always been a pioneer of academic innovations, he added, hoping that it will be able to progress the use of regional languages into the future of possibilities.
The IIT-K will further shoulder the responsibility of not only dealing with language barriers at the institute level but also in the context of higher education in India, said reports.
The Institute will promote the development and programming of academic resources, such as STEM content, textbooks, reference, digital tools in vernacular languages.
