GUWAHATI: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday informed that the NEET(UG) 2021 will be conducted in 13 languages for the first time with new addition of Punjabi and Malayalam language. The languages now being offered are Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu and English.
“The NEET(UG) 2021 will be for the first time conducted in 13 languages with new addition of Punjabi & Malayalam. The languages now being offered are Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu and English,” the Union Education Minister Tweeted.
The NEET(UG) 2021 will be for the first time conducted in 13 languages with new addition of Punjabi & Malayalam. The languages now being offered are Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu and English.
— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) July 13, 2021
In a series of tweet, Pradhan said that it is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of promoting regional languages under National Education Policy 2020. The Minister said, registrations for the NEET(UG) 2021 has started on ntaneet.nic.in from 5 pm yesterday. He said, for the first time in the history of NEET(UG) exam and in order to facilitate the Indian student community in the middle east, an examination centre has been opened in Kuwait.
This is in line with Hon. PM Shri @narendramodi’s vision of promoting regional languages under NEP 2020.
— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) July 13, 2021
