Multilinguality in Academic Institutes in India

India is a land of many languages. According to the 2001 census, there are twenty-two official languages in India, and more than one thousand six hundred regional dialects along with their varieties. In the villages, most children go to government schools for their primary and secondary education. In the government schools, the syllabus, examination, debates, speeches, official formalities, etc., are conducted in the local, regional or official language. English may be one of the subjects, but it is not the language of the functional domains in most cases. Soon after the completion of formal secondary education, some students get into institutes of higher education such as the IITs, NITs, IIITs, IIMs, AIIMS, or other medical or engineering colleges and universities