Central Teacher Eligibility Test will be held in 20-languages: Javadekar

By Garima Bora

Jun 18, 2018

09:07 pm

What's the story

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has directed Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to continue conducting the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in the 20 Indian languages as earlier. The directive by Javadekar came following criticism of CBSE's decision to remove 17 languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, and Bengali from the list of options for CTET. Here's more.

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Here is the tweet by the HRD Minister

#CTET परीक्षा सभी भारतीय भाषाओं में आयोजित की जाएगी। यह परीक्षा अंग्रेजी, हिंदी, असमिया, बांग्ला, गारो, गुजराती, कन्नड़, खासी, मलयालम, मणिपुरी, मराठी, मिजो, नेपाली, उडिया, पंजाबी, संस्कृत, तमिल, तेलुगु, तिब्बतन और उर्दू में आयोजित की जाएगी।@cbseindia29 pic.twitter.com/bHhYvJaFKK
— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) June 18, 2018

Criticism

Kanimozhi expresses anger at CBSE's earlier decision

DMK leader Kanimozhi today expressed her anger on Twitter at CBSE's earlier decision which she said will come as a blow to speakers of several regional languages. She said the decision to drop Tamil and 16 other languages from CTET strikes at the root of federalism. "Students of CBSE whose mother-tongue is Tamil will be put to a great disadvantage without teachers," she tweeted.

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Another effort by BJP to make a Hindi-Hindu Hindustan: Kanimozhi

Students are forced to study Hindi Sanskrit instead of their mother tongue. This will lead to another language struggle through out the country. This is another of BJPs efforts to make a Hindi-Hindu Hindustan.
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— Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) (@KanimozhiDMK) June 18, 2018