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Union Government To Conduct CAPF Exam In 13 Regional Languages After Push From Southern Leaders

The announcement came바카라 웹사이트days after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to Amit Shah, calling him to include Tamil as a language for the written exam in the recruitment for CRPF personnel

The CAPF exam will now be conducted in 13 regional languages
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In a historic decision, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday바카라 웹사이트has approved the conduct of constable (general duty) examination for Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)바카라 웹사이트in 13 regional languages, in addition to Hindi and English. The question paper will now be set in바카라 웹사이트regional languages including바카라 웹사이트Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Manipuri and Konkani.

The landmark바카라 웹사이트decision has been taken at the initiative of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to give impetus to the participation of local youths in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and encourage regional languages, an official statement said.

The CAPFs are the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the National Security Guard (NSG).바카라 웹사이트"In a landmark decision under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, (the) Ministry of Home Affairs has approved conducting constable (general duty) examination for CAPFs in 13 regional languages, in addition to Hindi and English," it said.

The announcement came바카라 웹사이트days after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to Amit Shah, calling him to include Tamil as a language for the written exam in the recruitment for CRPF personnel.바카라 웹사이트

In his letter, Stalin said that in the notification for the CRPF recruitment written exam, it was mentioned that the test could be taken in English and Hindi. "The notification by바카라 웹사이트@crpfindia to conduct its CBT only in English & Hindi amounts to blatant discrimination & denies equality of opportunity to non-hindi speaking states," he had said.

Earlier, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao had urged Shah to conduct the exam in state languages as well.바카라 웹사이트

Chief Ministers welcome바카라 웹사이트move

After the announcement was made, several minister took to Twitter to appreciate the centre's decision.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin today shared the letter on Twitter and said, "As a result of my letter to Hon바카라 웹사이트@AmitShah, the Union Govt has announced that it would conduct the CAPF exams in all state languages. I wholeheartedly welcome this decision & reiterate our demand to provide Question Papers in Tamil & other state languages in all Union Govt exams," he said.

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