Bank PO, clerk exams in South Indian Languages: Government to consider this demand, says report

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said recently that she is looking into demands of MPs from southern such as Karnataka for conducting bank exams in regional languages as well, according to a report by Livemint. If the demand from southern MPs is met, then the candidates who are appearing for bank recruitment exams would get a chance to attend their exam papers in South Indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. 

Apart from various recruitments for RBI, major bank recruitment exams held in the country include SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS RRB, IBPS PO, IBPS SO, IBPS Clerk, PNB PO, Syndicate PO, Bank of Baroda PO and Canara Bank PO.

Most nationalised banks conduct Probationary Officers (PO) and Clerks recruitment exams on a yearly basis. Most of the question papers for recruitment exams held are only provided either in English or Hindi language. 

This issue was raised by Congress member G C Chandrasekhar through a Zero Hour mention at the parliament. As per the reports, Chandrasekhar while speaking in Kannada said the Indian Banking Service examination and other recruitment tests should be held in Kannada language alongside English and Hindi. After which, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said MPs from Lok Sabha too had met on the issue which relates to all states which have their own languages.