The state cabinet has cleared a proposal to drop Hindi and Sanskrit from the list of main language papers for exams to Grade 3 and 4 government jobs conducted by the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSCC). Urdu, however, has been retained in the list that has 12 regional languages, including tribal dialects.
A candidate has to mandatorily clear some qualifying papers that will be set in Hindi and English. In addition to those papers, a candidate has to obtain pass marks in any of the 12 language papers. The marks obtained in any of these 12 papers will be added to the marks obtained in the main qualifying papers.
Jharkhand BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo says that the new policy cleared by the state cabinet is discriminatory against Hindi and Sanskrit and is a bid to appease Muslims.
The new recruitment policy also makes it mandatory for general category students to have passed class 10 and 12 from a Jharkhand school.
This new rule, says the BJP, also discriminates against general category candidates since it has been made mandatory for them to pass their board exams from a school in Jharkhand while the same rule does not apply to reserved category candidates.
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