New Delhi: For the first time, the Constable (General Duty) examination for recruitment of constables in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will be conducted in 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English.
The Examination will be conducted from February 20 to March 7, 2024, for around 48 lakh candidates in 128 cities across the country.
It may be mentioned that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had decided to conduct the Constable (General Duty) examination for recruitment in CAPFs in 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English from January 01, 2024, to increase the participation of local youth in the Central Armed Police Forces and to promote regional languages.
Question papers for the Constable (General Duty) examination will now be prepared in the following 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odiya, Urdu, Punjabi, Manipuri, and Konkani.
The Constable GD Examination is one of the flagship examinations conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) attracting lakhs of youths from across the country. Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Staff Selection Commission have signed an MoU to facilitate the conduct of the examination in the above-mentioned 13 regional languages in addition to Hindi and English. Accordingly, SSC has issued notification to conduct the Constable (GD) Examination, in 2024 in 13 other regional languages in addition to English and Hindi.
The decision will result in lakhs of youth taking part in the examination in their mother tongue/regional language and improve their selection prospects. As a result, the reach of this examination will increase among the candidates in the entire country and everyone will get an equal employment opportunity, the Union Home Ministry stated today.
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