New Delhi: Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra on Wednesday addressed the 14th Hindi Consultative Committee meeting attached to the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
The Minister said that it has been recently decided to conduct the Central government job test in 15 Indian languages so that the language barrier does not let any youth miss the job opportunity. These will include different regional languages including Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali,Gujarati, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi and Urdu.
The Minister lauded the efforts of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) for arranging to conduct, for the first time, the Multi Tasking (Non-Technical) Staff examination in 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English.
Notable progress has been made in the last more than nine years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote the Indian regional languages besides the official Language Hindi, said Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi today.
This historic decision will give impetus to participation of local youth and encourage regional languages, said the Minister.
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, he said.
The decision will result in lakhs of aspirants taking part in the examination in their mother tongue/regional language and improve their selection prospects.
Notable progress has been made in the last more than nine years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote the Indian regional languages besides the official Language Hindi, said Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi today.
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).
“Though the policy was initiated with the Official Language Rules, 1976, significant progress has been made only in the last five-six years,” he said.
The DoPT Minister said the Staff Selection Commission recently unveiled the format for candidates to write their examination in 15 languages, plans are afoot to allow written tests in all 22 Scheduled Languages.
“In UPSC, there is still a dearth of higher studies subject books to allow but efforts are on in coordination with the HRD Ministry to promote specialized books in Indian languages. The first MBBS course in Hindi in the country was launched in October last year in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. And now Uttarakhand has become the second state to launch an MBBS programme in Hindi,” he said.
Calling for adoption of common terminology from English and other languages, Dr Jitendra Singh said Madhya Pradesh could take the lead in introducing medical education in Hindi by adopting words such as “nucleus” and “amoeba” verbatim rather than wasting time and resources in trying to cook up a translation.
Dr Jitendra Singh said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a very historic decision in the new National Education Policy (NEP) by giving importance to the Mother Tongue of students in Primary, Technical and Medical education.
“PM Modi has given a call to provide Medical and Engineering education in regional languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali. Medical education has commenced in Hindi and soon Engineering studies will also begin in Hindi and translation of Engineering books has commenced in eight languages across the country, and soon students across the Nation will be able to pursue Technical and Medical education in their mother tongue,” he said. (Agencies)