Telangana: Minister KTR appeals Union Home Minister to hold CRPF recruitment in all official languages

Taking up the issue faced by lakhs of government job aspirants who are not acquainted with Hindi or English, Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) Working President and Minister K T. Rama Rao wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding him to revise Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recruitment notification to include Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam & other official languages. As per the notification, the Computer Based Test will be conducted in English and Hindi only. KTR said that the competitive exams are being held only in English and Hindi, which is a serious disadvantage to students who did not study in English medium or are not from Hindi-speaking States.

The Minister reminded that The National Recruitment Agency has decided to facilitate a Common Eligibility Test (NRA-CET) to replace multiple examinations and conduct these in 12 Indian languages. “However, it’s not being implemented properly, including in the (CRPF) recruitment notification,” said KTR.

He said that conducting competitive exams only in Hindi goes against the spirit of the constitution as there are several official languages in India. KTR said that the CRPF notification denies people the right to equal opportunities – guaranteed by the constitution. He recalled the letter written by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to the central government on November 18,2020, urging them to hold all competitive exams to central government jobs in regional languages. He appealed to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to revise the CRPF notification so that crores of youth studying in regional languages get equal opportunities without any discrimination or inequality.