Guvi sidelines English, trains coders in Tamil, Telugu and Marathi

Firm's 67,000 members spend 80-100 hours learning coding, development in these languages

As India’s technology sector evolves from services to building products for itself and the world, the use of English as the primary language for training and interacting with coders is being questioned.

Guvi Geeks Network is one of the companies challenging the norm of English in India’s tech sector, and has begun training students in software development in their native languages. What started off as a YouTube channel to help a few engineering students has all the ingredients to become a movement.

“Colleges first thought we were discouraging students from learning English. This was hard for them to