Bhubaneswar: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has approved conduct of Staff Selection Commission Multitasking Staff (SSC MTS) examination and CHSLE Examination in 13 regional languages including Odia in addition to Hindi and English.
In addition to Hindi and English, the question paper will be set in the 13 regional languages i.e. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Manipuri (also Meiti) and Konkani.
The decision will result in lakhs of aspirants taking part in the examination in their mother tongue/regional language and improve their selection prospects.
There had been persistent demands from different States to hold SSC exams in languages other than English and Hindi. Government appointed an Expert Committee to look at this aspect too amongst other things (review of scheme and syllabus of examinations conducted by the Commission), according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions.
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