UPSC: List of Candidates Appeared in CSE Main Exam Year 2008-09 (Indian Language/Foreign Language)

Union Public Service Commission

Statement showing the number of candidates who appeared in Civil Services (Main)
Examinations – 2008 and 2009 with literature of an Indian Language/
Foreign Language as an optional subject

S. No.	Language (Optional subject)	No. of candidates who appeared in the year
		2008			2009
		Paper-I	Paper-II	Paper-I	Paper-II
A – Literature of an Indian Language as an optional subject
1	Assamese	5	5	7	7
2	Bengali	5	5	5	5
3	Gujarati	42	42	69	69
4	Hindi	954	952	925	924
5	Kannada	82	82	77	76
6	Kashmiri	-	-	-	-
7	Konkani	1	1	1	1
8	Malayalam	64	64	81	81
9	Manipuri	22	22	28	28
10	Marathi	42	42	52	52
11	Nepali	-	-	-	-
12	Oriya	4	4	14	14
13	Pali	249	248	306	303
14	Punjabi	18	18	25	25
15	Sanskrit	121	120	123	123
16	Sindhi (Devnagari)	1	1	-	-
17	Sindhi (Arabic)	-	-	-	-
18	Tamil	224	224	195	195
19	Telugu	142	141	134	133
20	Urdu	29	29	35	35
	Dogri	1	1	2	2
22	Maithili	25	25	36	36
23	Santhali	-	-	1	1
24	Bodo	-	-	1	1
Total A		2031	2026	2117	2111
C – Literature of a foreign language as an optional subject
1	Arabic	1	1	1	1
2	Chinese	-	-	-	-
3	German	-	-	-	-
4	Persian	10	10	2	2
5	French	-	-	-	-
6	Russian	-	-	-	-
Total C		11	11	04	04
Total No. of candidates opting for literature of an Indian/ foreign language as an optional subject (A + B + C)		2082	2076	2162	2156
Percentage of candidates with an Indian language as an optional subject [A] in relation to the total no. of candidates appeared (11,320 in 2008 and 11,504 in 2009 in General Studies Paper-I).		17.94% (2031)	17.90% (2026)	18.40% (2117)	18.35% (2111)

Courtesy: upsc.gov.in