India, April 7 -- By Vishu Adhana

New Delhi (India), April 7 (ANI): The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is working on an ambitious plan to make textbooks available for all engineering diploma and degree courses in 12 Indian languages by December 2026, with work already underway across disciplines and academic years.

In an interview with ANI, AICTE Chairman Prof T G Sitharam said that around 600 textbooks for first and second-year engineering diploma and degree courses have already been prepared and uploaded in 12 regional languages. These include Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

He further said that the work on third and fourth-year textbooks is i...