HYDERABAD: lauding the move of 14 engineering colleges across eight States to offer courses in regional languages, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu has urged more educational institutions, particularly those imparting technical and professional studies, to follow suit. He affirmed that providing courses in regional languages will serve as a boon to students. 

He also welcomed the decision of the 14 engineering colleges to offer regional languages in select branches from the new academic year.  Referring to the benefits of learning in mother tongue, Naidu said it enhances one's grasping and comprehension levels. "To understand a subject in another language, one has to first learn and master that language,  

However, this is not the case while learning in one's mother tongue," he added. Emphasizing on the significance of mother language, he said, "Our mother language or our native language is very special to us, as we share an umbilical cord relationship with it." Citing a UN report that one language in the world becomes extinct every two weeks, Naidu expressed concern that 196 Indian languages were endangered.

Naidu called upon people to learn as many languages as they can. He said that proficiency in different languages would provide an edge in today's inter-connected world. "With every language we learn, we deepen our connection with another culture," he added. He said many studies across the world have established that teaching in mother tongue in initial stages of education boosts a child's self-esteem  

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