New List of Tribal and Regional Languages

Why in News?

=> Recently, the Jharkhand State government has released a new list of tribal and regional languages for appointment to district level posts.

Key Points:

=> A notification in this regard has been issued by the Personnel Department. Along with this, the notification issued on December 24 related to the list of tribal and regional languages for district level appointments has been deleted.

=> Earlier Urdu was included in the list of regional languages.

=> In the new list of regional languages Bhojpuri from Bokaro and Magahi & Bhojpuri from Dhanbad have been removed.

=> This list has been released by JSSC marking the languages district wise for district level posts in the matriculation and inter level competitive examination.

=> It is noteworthy that various organizations opposed the inclusion of Bhojpuri and Magahi languages in the list of regional languages in Bokaro and Dhanbad.

=> Several JMM leaders and several organizations, including Education Minister Jagarnath Mahto, had demanded the government to remove Bhojpuri and Magahi from the list of regional languages.