Chinese language to be added to the courses of IIT - Bombay

One of the best engineering colleges of India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has decided to teach the students, not Spanish or Italian, but Mandarin. The college has taken up this step and the students will have to learn not only the language but also the work and social set-up of China.

All this has happened after some of the top universities of China have shown keen interest in collaboration with IIT Bombay, which has seen growth opportunities in this dealing. A management officer says that some students have already shown respect to the Chinese language and wish to enroll in it too.

The officer also said that the institute's main focus is not only the language development but also that the students must learn Chinese work and lifestyle. To achieve this goal, movies may also be shown to the students along with regular classes. The maximum capacity of the batch will be kept to seventy and one of the universities collaborating with IIT-B are Beijing Jiaotong University.