NEW DELHI: In an initially, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will perform the multi-tasking (non-technical) staff evaluation, 2022, in 13 local languages in addition to Hindi and English.The 13 extra regional languages in which the test can be taken now are Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Konkani, Manipuri (also Meiti), Marathi, Odia and Punjabi.Speaking to TOI, junior home minister Jitendra Singh on Friday stated the intent is to carry out the test in all the 22 Scheduled languages in due course.
He stated the transfer to offer the SSC examination in 15 languages takes foward PM Modis vision of supplying an equal opportunity to task aspirants and guarantee that no one is rejected an opportunity since of being at a disadvantage due to language barrier.
The relocation will fulfil the long pending need of prospects of various states, particularly those in South India, for the tests to be performed in languages other than Hindi and English, the minister mentioned.
He said that the department of workers and training, in order to evaluate the scheme and syllabus of evaluations performed by the Commission, including the medium in which the assessments are performed, had actually made up a professional committee.It has recommended that it would be in fitness of things to perform the examinations for lower-level posts in numerous languages, which to start with, can start with a few languages and then gradually increase to include all the languages pointed out in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, said a declaration provided by the workers ministry.
The government has actually accepted the recommendations of the committee.