National Testing Service, India

National Testing Service, India

Centre for Testing and Evaluation, Central Institute of Indian Language
Mysore – 570 006

Attention! Managements of Schools and Colleges (Private, Corporate, Aided and Government)

Applications in the prescribed format are invited from the managements of reputed schools and colleges for designating as the Regional Field Units of the National Testing Service (NTS), India.

The formation of the NTS, meant to cater to the testing requirements of the country, as prescribed by various commissions of education and subsequently envisaged in the NPE / POA / 1986, NPE RC 1990, and CABE 1992, has been initiated for the first time in India. The responsibility of implementing this virtual scheme, has been entrusted to the Centre for Testing Evaluation in view of its 2 decades of experience in producing basic reference materials and trained-manpower in various Indian languages.

As a step in this direction, 3 Task Groups, viz., Research & Development, Surgery & Documentation, and Consultancy & Training are being created by inducting 51 personnel (academic, technical, and ministerial), Initially 3 Indian languages, viz (Hindi, Tamil & Urdu) and subsequently all the 22 major Indian languages are proposed to be taken up for coverage. The immediate focus is on the two crucial levels of education (Standard XII and Degree) and subsequently on all the seven levels of general education. In order to have the NTS as a participatory movement on quality control, it is proposed to create 60 Regional Field Units across 15 States / Union Territories of the country and to associate about 6000 teachers of schools and colleges.

The objectives of the NTS:

To formulate concept based continuum of graded syllabi for the courses in Indian languages applicable to all the seven levels of general education.
To develop norms and standards for making use of them;
To create a centralized mechanism of quality control (common scale) for determining the language competence of any individual. The applications:
To maintain inter-language comparability across the courses in Indian languages at the national level
Intra language comparability at the regional levels;
To accredit the language courses as well as the institutions that are involved in imparting them;
To decide an individual’s aptitude / achievement / proficiency in the context of Native / Second / Foreign Language for the purpose of admission, certification, and employment; also
To facilitate delinking of degrees from jobs in due course.

Sl.No	Regions for Hindi	Location where Field Units preferred
1	Himachal Pradesh	Solan, Shimla, Mandi, Manali, Dharmasala, Hamirpur
2	Haryana	Panipet, Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon
3	Rajasthan	Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Bikaner
4	Uttaranchal	Dehradun, Nainital, Haridwar
5	Uttar Pradesh	Meerut, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Saharanpur
6	Bihar	Patna, Bhagalpur, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Saharsa
7	Jharkhand	Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Danabad, Bokaro
8	Chattisgarh	Bilaspur, Raipur, Pilay, Bastar, Bilani
9	Madhya Pradesh	Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Jhansi, Gwalior
10	Delhi	Old Delhi, New Delhi

Sl.No	Regions for Tamil	Location where Field Units preferred
1	Tamilnadu-Chennai	Chennai, Tiruvallur
2	Tamilnadu-Pondy	Pondicherry, Cuddalore, Kanchipuram (Chengalpettu), Villupuram
3	Tamilnadu-Andra	Vellore Tiruvannamalai, Dharmapuri (Incl. AP border)
4	Tamilnadu-Salem	Salem, Namakkal, Karur
5	Tamilnadu-Trichi	Ariyalur, Perambalur, Trichi
6	Tamilnadu-Karaikal	Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapatanam, (Karaikal), Pudokottai.
7	Tamilnadu-N.Kerala	Erode, Nilgiris (Incl. Karnataka Border) Coimbatore (Incl. Kerala border)
8	Tamilnadu-Madurai	Dindigul, Theni, Madurai (Incl. Kerala border)
9	Tamilnadu-Ramnad	Sivagangai, Ramanathapuram (Karaikudi), Virudhunagar
20	Tamilnadu-S.Kerala	Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari (Trivandrum – Kerala)

Sl.No	Regions for Urdu	Location where Field Units preferred
1	Delhi	Old Delhi / New Delhi
2	Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu, Srinagar
3	Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad, Allahabad, Mahaboobnagar
4	Maharashtra	Nagpur, Pune, Mumbai
5	Uttar Pradesh	Aligarh, Lucknow, Allahabad, Saharanpur
6	Karnataka	Bangalore, Gulbarga, Mysore Srirangapatna)
7	Madya Pradesh	Bhopal, Burhanpur
8	Haryana	Panipet, Faridabad
9	West Bengal	Kolkata, Purnia, siwan, and Parts of Bihar
10	Rajasthan	Jodhpur, Bikaneer, Jaipur, Kota

Note:

Regions and Locations indicated above are only tentative, Management of Private, Corporate, Aided and Government Institutions from other location can also apply if they feel that the location of their institution is potential enough for NTS operation. Based on the interest and responses received from various Institutions, the actual locations for the field units will be finalized. 12 zonal centres – 4 per languages (2 each to represent school & College levels) may also be created at a later stage from among the Regional Field Units.

For operational details, terms & conditions, format of application, etc., please log on to http://www.ciil-miles.net or http://www.ciil.org , and look for announcement. The application format may be downloaded from the above website. The duly filled in application should reach the Head, Centre for Testing and Evaluation, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Manasagangotri, Mosore-570 006 within three weeks from the date of advertisement. Further Information if any needed, please contact Professor Pon Subbiah through Email: subbiah@ciil.stpmy.soft.net or Fax: 0421-2515032

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