IANS | New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) The Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) will be held in 20 languages, including Tamil, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.
“The CTET examination will be conducted in all Indian languages as was being conducted earlier. I have already directed the CBSE to conduct examination in all the 20 languages,” Javadekar said in a tweet.
“The CTET examination will be held in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bangla, Garo, Gujarati, Kannada, Khasi, Malyalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mizo, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan and Urdu,” he said in another tweet.
DMK leader Kanimozhi had taken to the same platform earlier in the day to condemn the CBSE’s decision — retracted now — of dropping Tamil along with many other languages in which the exam is to be conducted.
“The decision to drop Tamil and 16 other regional languages from CTET is highly condemnable and strikes at the root of federalism. Students of CBSE whose mother tongue is Tamil will be put to a great disadvantage without teachers.
“Students are forced to study Hindi and Sanskrit instead of their mother tongue. This will lead to another language struggle throughout the country. This is another of BJP’s efforts to make a Hindi-Hindu Hindustan,” she wrote.
A CTET qualified teacher is eligible to be hired at schools of the Central government (KVS, NVS, Central Tibetan Schools and others) and schools under the administrative control of the Union Territories, and also private schools, if they choose to consider it as an eligibility criterion.
Candidates can apply for the exam online between June 22 and July 17. The test will be held on September 16.
CTET 2018: Exam pattern
Paper 1 will be for the aspirants who wish to be a teacher for classes 1 to 5.
Paper 2 will be for the candidates who wish to be a teacher for classes 6 to 8.
Examination:
Paper II – 9.30 am to 12.00 pm
Paper I – 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm.
Application fees:
General/OBC category – Rs 600 for one paper and Rs 1000 for both paper I and paper II.
SC/ST/Differently-abled category – Rs 300 for one paper and Rs 500 for both the papers.
Important dates:
CTET 2018 exams: September 16
Commencement of application process: June 22
Last date to apply: July 17
Last date to submit application fees: July 21
Eligibility: The minimum qualifications for becoming a teacher for Classes 1 to 5 are:
1) The candidate should have passed the Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) exam with at least 50 per cent marks. He/ she should either pass or appear in the final year of two-year Diploma in Elementary Education.
or
or
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50 per cent marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed).
or
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50 per cent marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Education (Special Education).
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