GFP hails govt's move to hold RRB exams in regional languages

The Goa Forward Party, an ally of the ruling BJP in the coastal state, has welcomed the Centre's decision to conduct the recruitment examination for Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in regional languages, including Konkani.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the exams for direct recruitment of Scale-I officers and office assistants in RRBs would be conducted in 13 regional languages, apart from English and Hindi.

These 13 languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malyalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The move will help people having fluency in regional languages to get jobs in RRBs, she said.

"This is an endorsement of our party's stand that local languages should be given equal importance in competitive exams," Goa Forward Party's (GFP) vice president Durgadas Kamat said in a statement released here on Sunday.

The step taken by the Union government will increase competitiveness in the examination and ...