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NEW DELHI: In a landmark decision, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has approved conduct of the Staff Selection Commission Multitasking (non-technical) Staff (SSC MTS) examination and CHSL Examination for government jobs in 15 languages in total, that is, 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English.
This was announced here on Tuesday by Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also the Minister Incharge DoPT.
This historic decision has been taken at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to 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.
Government accepted this recommendation of the Expert Committee and asked SSC to work out the modalities.
To start with the Commission has decided to conduct MTS Examination, 2022 and CHSLE Examination, 2022 in 15 languages (13 regional languages + Hindi + English) as used by Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) / Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) for conducting their examination. The notice of MTS Exam has already been issued. Notice for CHSL Exam in Multi-Language will be issued in May-June 2023.
The Minister said that the MTS 2022 exam notice has received positive response amongst the candidates especially belonging to South India and also on social media. The first exam in multi-language (MTS 2022) will commence from May 2nd.
