Medical textbooks for undergrads in Assamese language soon

GUWAHATI: The Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences (SSUHS), to which medical colleges of Assam are affiliated, said it has completed the compilation of the English to Assamese medical dictionary-cum-lexicon and will soon print the textbooks for medical education at the undergraduate level in Assamese language.
The university’s decision is in line with PM Narendra Modi’s advocacy for medical and technical education in the mother tongue. The Centre is yet to take a decision on this though.
SSUHS vice-chancellor Dhruba Jyoti Borah told TOI on Tuesday, “Undergraduate medical education is still in English in India. The Union government will have to take a call if the same has to be taught in vernacular languages. Thereafter, the state government will have to take a formal decision in this regard, but we are going ahead with our plan to print the dictionary-cum-lexicon in the next four months, and ready the text books in Assamese language in another nine months.”
“We will use spellings and expressions from the lexicon to meet a standardized form,” he added.