BJP led Madhya Pradesh government started engineering courses in Hindi at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University of Bhopal.

However only four students took admission for the three engineering courses offered by the university. This year, no students have taken admission, leaving the engineering faculty with just 11 students, including seven diploma holders who have taken lateral admissions into the second year of the engineering courses.

But to the utmost shock even in core Hindi belt arena concept of learning engineering in Hindi has not caught on and the university is on the verge of shutting down engineering courses for the want of students and also infrastructure.

“The concept is very good, but due to want of awareness, people don’t understand it well. I don’t think we should continue the course. Spending crores of rupees in developing infrastructure, constructing 20 classes and appointing 20 teachers for just a few students don’t appear feasible,” said Ramdev Bhardwaj, the university’s newly appointed vice-chancellor.

“The university academic council will soon sit to decide whether we should continue running the courses or not,” Bhardwaj added. Atal Bihari Vajpayee University is an autonomous body and they can take their decision on their own,” said the minister of state for technical education minister, Deepak Joshi.

Growing dissent for Hindi in southern Indian states Tamilnadu, kerala, Karnataka, Maharastra and odissa is a well known factor but students of today generation in Hindi belts disowning Hindi comes as hard shock to digest for the ruling bjp establishments who wants to promote Hindi in various means educational analysts observes.