Union minister Subhas Sarkar and Maharashtra's Minister for Higher and Technical Education Chandrakant Patil on Monday launched books written in Marathi for diploma and under-graduate engineering courses in the state.

Speaking on the occasion, Sarkar said the initiative is in line with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)'s philosophy of imparting technical education in Indian languages by introducing books in 12 local languages --- Hindi, Marathi, Telegu, Odia, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Urdu, Malayalam and Assamese.