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JEE(M) to be in 11 languages from ’21
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:28.11.2019
Now engineering aspirants can have a shot at JEE in vernacular medium. The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) will be offered in 11 regional languages, including Tamil, from January 2021. The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to prepare for conducting the test in at least 11 languages which include Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odiya, Telugu and Urdu.
JEE (Main), the national level competitive test for admission to various undergraduate engineering and architecture courses mainly in National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and other governmentfunded technical institutes (GFTIs), at present is offered in English, Hindi and Gujarati. This test is also the eligibility exam for JEE (Advanced), the admission test for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Earlier conducted by CBSE, the computer-based test has now been passed on to NTA. Recently, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, while questioning the inclusion of Gujarati, demanded inclusion of other regional languages. NTA said it has been offering the test in Gujarati following a request from the state.
NTA to work on offering test in all the languages
While the department of higher education of West Bengal wrote to NTA for inclusion of Bengali in the JEE (Main) 2020 question paper, a senior MHRD official said that the test will be offered in all the 11languages from 2021.
According to the official, “In such a short time all the languages cannot be offered as the registration and all logistics have already been scheduled for the 2020 exams. Moreover, it takes time for translation as it is a major exam and no student should be at any disadvantage due to a hurried work. This will be implemented from the January 2021 exams.”
The ministry while asking NTA to work on offering the test in all the languages stated that this would help students continue their schooling in their mother tongue instead of shifting to English or Hindi medium. According MHRD sources, it has asked NTA to also explore possibilities to offer the competitive exams in as many languages as possible.
JEE(M) to be in 11 languages from ’21
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:28.11.2019
Now engineering aspirants can have a shot at JEE in vernacular medium. The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) will be offered in 11 regional languages, including Tamil, from January 2021. The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to prepare for conducting the test in at least 11 languages which include Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odiya, Telugu and Urdu.
JEE (Main), the national level competitive test for admission to various undergraduate engineering and architecture courses mainly in National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and other governmentfunded technical institutes (GFTIs), at present is offered in English, Hindi and Gujarati. This test is also the eligibility exam for JEE (Advanced), the admission test for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Earlier conducted by CBSE, the computer-based test has now been passed on to NTA. Recently, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, while questioning the inclusion of Gujarati, demanded inclusion of other regional languages. NTA said it has been offering the test in Gujarati following a request from the state.
NTA to work on offering test in all the languages
While the department of higher education of West Bengal wrote to NTA for inclusion of Bengali in the JEE (Main) 2020 question paper, a senior MHRD official said that the test will be offered in all the 11languages from 2021.
According to the official, “In such a short time all the languages cannot be offered as the registration and all logistics have already been scheduled for the 2020 exams. Moreover, it takes time for translation as it is a major exam and no student should be at any disadvantage due to a hurried work. This will be implemented from the January 2021 exams.”
The ministry while asking NTA to work on offering the test in all the languages stated that this would help students continue their schooling in their mother tongue instead of shifting to English or Hindi medium. According MHRD sources, it has asked NTA to also explore possibilities to offer the competitive exams in as many languages as possible.
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