Centre Decides to Have SSC Job Recruitment Test in 15 Languages

New Delhi: The Centre has recently decided to hold a government job recruitment test, conducted by the SSC, in 15 languages, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday.

This decision is aimed at increasing the participation of local youth and encouragement of regional languages. Jitendra Singh said this while addressing the 14th Hindi Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

“It has recently been decided to conduct the government job test in 15 Indian languages so that the language barrier does not let any youth of the country miss the job opportunity,” said Singh.

In addition to Hindi and English, the question paper will be set in 13 regional languages i.e. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Manipuri (also Meiti) and Konkani.

Plans are afoot in SSC to allow written tests in all 22 scheduled languages.