Besides, Odia is the first (and the only one so far) from the North Indian group of languages to have been accepted as a classical language by the Central government taking into account its long and rich heritage," Mohanty said.įormer diplomat Abasar Beuria echoed the feelings. "This is very surprising and patently unjustified, given the fact that Odisha boasts of a large number of technical universities, engineering colleges, an IIT and NIT.
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Swayam, which was launched in 2017 by MoE, offers 1,900 courses from Class IX to post-graduation through massive open online course (MOOCs) format free of cost.Ĭourses offered in science, engineering and technology, humanities and social sciences, law and management, are prepared by faculty members of IITs, central universities and scientists of IISc.ĭr Omkar Nath Mohanty, the trust member of the Institute of Odia Studies and Research (IOSR), said the MoE move has deprived bulk of rural and economically weaker students in Odisha from receiving online courses in their mother-tongue for better grasp of the technical subjects.
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Currently, the translation of courses is underway and completed for some subjects too.ĪICTE sources said translating the courses into more than the selected eight languages does not seem feasible at the moment. However, when it came to preparing and translating the study materials this year, Odia and Punjabi were dropped by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).