Last Updated: 28 September 2026

1st Punjab Olympiad held online on 9-10 December 2023^[1]
-- 2nd Olympiad held on 7-8 December 2024^[2]
-- 3rd Olympiad (Dec 2025): 2.25 lakh+ students registered worldwide, up from 24,698 (2nd) & 6,689 (1st)^[3]
-- Being held annually every year by PSEB

People from Punjab settled in different countries but NRI next generation was not fully aware of their own language^[4]

To promote the Punjabi language on a global scale, the Punjab government has decided to organise the International Punjabi Language Olympiad(IPLO)^[4:1]

Punjabi is the 10th most spoken language in the world with over 100 million speakers^[5]

¶ International Olympiad: IPLO

• IPLO has been engineered to forge a global platform for adolescents to embrace Punjabi, engrave it in their hearts, and take pride in its richness^[5:1]
• The exam would be open for students residing in India, USA, Australia, Europe and other countries^[1:1]

¶ Exam Details^[4:2]

Olympiad open to students from Class 3 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9 to 12 ^[2:1]

• It will consist of 50 objective-type questions to be solved within 40 minutes, carrying a total of 50 marks
• Students up to the age of 17 who are studying in the 8th and 9th standard are eligible to participate
• Apart from the students from India, children from United States, Australia, Europe, and other locations are welcome to take part
• The Olympiad conducted in six different time zones, each lasting for 2 hours
• This olympiad provides an online syllabus and a structured testing platform to assess proficiency in the Punjabi language

References:

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1. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/punjabi-language-olympiad-to-be-held-in-december-560990 ↩︎ ↩︎

2. https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/mohali-govt-to-collab-with-foreign-embassies-for-punjab-s-educational-growth-says-bains-101751722144833.html ↩︎ ↩︎

3. https://www.rozanaspokesman.com/punjabi-diaspora/141125/3rd-international-punjabi-language-olympiad-2025-over-225-lakh-stude.html ↩︎

4. https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/chandigarh/punjab-govt-to-organise-international-punjabi-olympiad-to-promote-language-1503237163.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

5. https://olympiad.pseb.ac.in/ ↩︎ ↩︎