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The Bhopal-based Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya has urged the Medical Council of India (MCI) to permit the students to write MBBS course papers in Hindi. When candidates have an option to take Pre-Medical Test (PMT) in Hindi, they should also be given a similar facility in MBBS exams, university Vice-Chancellor Mohanlal Cheepa said. 

Established in 2011, the university has been advocating for the issue of inclusion of Hindi as a medium of language in MBBS course at medical institutes and has also discussed the matter with MCI in the recent past.

 When asked why MCI was not permitting to conduct MBBS course in Hindi despite the Rajbhasha Samiti giving its nod on the issue way back in 1991, Cheepa said that MCI cites reason as lack of medical books in Hindi.

He said that MCI states that they don't have relevant books in Hindi. Therefore, on the occasion of 10th World Hindi Sammelan, we along with Hindi Granth Academy collected and displayed 250-300 books (in medical science) to prove that MBBS course can also be taught in Hindi.

Cheepa said he had suggested to the MCI that it can teach MBBS in English as long as it is not possible in Hindi, but an option should be provided to candidates to write papers in Hindi. Citing figures from a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, he said among students who passed out from prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), 54 per cent go abroad for better future prospects and never return. 

Also, the report stated that bright students from Hindi medium, who are selected for institutes like AIIMS, majority of them lag due to the language constraint while some even take extreme step of committing suicide for failing to cope with pressure due to the change in medium of instruction, he said. 

To a query, he said that out of nearly 400 medical colleges in the country, 115 are located in the Hindi belt, and added that he is planning to hold a dialogue with vice chancellors on the issue.