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Under the new arrangement, students will study three languages, and at least two of them must be native Indian languages. Students who wish to take a foreign language may do so as the third language only if the other two are Indian languages, or they may take it as an additional fourth language. This means the policy does not shut the door on foreign languages, but it clearly gives priority to Indian languages within the core curriculum.

The exhibition also underlines a broader historical point: mathematics may be universal, but many of its key tools were shaped by Indian intellectual traditions before travelling through West Asia and into Europe. Indian decimal place-value numerals are recognised as ancestors of the modern decimal number system, while Brahmagupta’s work laid foundations in arithmetic and algebra.

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, reviewed the plan during a briefing by IN-SPACe Chairman Dr Pawan Goenka. The initiative is aimed at creating a skilled talent pipeline for India’s fast-expanding private space ecosystem, which has attracted more than USD 600 million in private investment over the last five years.

According to the NMC, the MBBS programme consists of 54 months of academic study, followed by a one-year Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI). The commission said the internship is a mandatory training phase, but it does not form part of the formal academic teaching period, and therefore fees should be restricted to the academic component alone.