BHOPAL: In a controversial move, the Madhya Pradesh Medical University has decided to allow medical students in the state to write their exams in Hindi and Hinglish (Hindi, English mixed) in addition to English.
MP is the only state where medical students would have an option to use either English or Hindi to write their exams and even use Hinglish, if they fail to find a corresponding Hindi word for a scientific word in English.
A circular issued by the Madhya Pradesh Medical University on May 26 said, “Following a detailed discussion, the board of studies has decided that students of all homeopathy and ayurvedic colleges affiliated with the university will have the option to answer questions in their exams in English/ Hindi or mixture of the two (Hindi English). This facility is now being extended to students of all the faculties (MBBS, nursing, dental, unani, yoga, naturopathy)”.
The circular states that this facility will be given in oral and practical exam, too and if a technical/scientific word is not available in Hindi, a student could use that word in English. Only on the basis of language used (Hindi, English or mixed), marks would not be deducted if the answer is scientifically or technically correct.
