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Centre Clears Air Around Teacher’s Exam, Says Test Will Be Conducted In 20 Languages Including Tamil
Swarajya Staff
Jun 19, 2018, 04:22 PM | Updated 04:22 PM IST
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Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to conduct the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in 20 languages.
CTET examination will be conducted in all Indian languages as was being conducted earlier. I have already directed @cbseindia29 to conduct examination in all the 20 languages as was being done earlier.
— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) June 18, 2018
In another tweet subsequently, he said "#CTET examination will be held in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bangla, Garo, Gujarati, Kanada, Khasi, Malyalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mizo, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan & Urdu @cbseindia29" .
Earlier, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Kanimozhi took to Twitter to express dismay over the fact that Tamil was not considered as one of the languages for the exam. She said that students of Tamil would be at a disadvantage in the exam if question papers were not set in the language.
The decision to drop Tamil & 16 other regional languages from Central Teacher Eligibility Test is highly condemnable and strikes at the root of federalism. Students of CBSE whose mother tongue is Tamil will be put to a great disadvantage without teachers..
— Kanimozhi (à®à®©à®¿à®®à¯à®´à®¿) (@KanimozhiDMK) June 18, 2018
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Playing the federalism card, she said the Centre’s move was against the State’s welfare.
The Teacher Eligibility Test is an entrance examination for teachers, and is mandatory for getting teaching jobs in government schools from Class 1 to Class 8. The test is conducted by both central and state governments.
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