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Hindi InScript keyboard layout: chart and setup for typing tests

InScript is the standard Hindi keyboard layout of India. It works on any ordinary QWERTY keyboard, because each Hindi letter sits on a fixed key, and it is one of the layouts offered in government typing tests.

InScript key chart

• Left little
• Left ring
• Left middle
• Left index (and thumb side keys)
• Right index
• Right middle
• Right ring
• Right little

The chart shows the letter keys exactly as the practice app types them. The number row and a few rarely used letters (for example ड, ढ, ञ, ऋ and the nukta sign) are not part of the app’s typing tests, so they are not drawn here. Practise those on your own computer too, with the keyboard you will use in the exam.

How InScript is organised

• Left hand: vowel signs. On the home row, A types ◌ो, S types ◌े, D types the halant (◌्), F types ◌ि and G types ◌ु.
• Right hand: consonants. On the home row, H types प, J types र, K types क and L types त.
• Shift gives the related letter. Shift with a consonant key usually gives its aspirated partner (क becomes ख, प becomes फ). Shift with a vowel-sign key gives the full vowel (◌ा becomes आ).
• Half letters come from the halant: type the consonant, then D (◌्), then the next consonant.

Set up InScript on Windows

1. Open Settings → Time & language → Language & region and add Hindi if it is not there.
2. Open the Hindi language options and make sure an InScript keyboard is added (it may be named “Devanagari – INSCRIPT”; the name changes a little between Windows versions).
3. Switch keyboards with Windows key + Space, then type in any app.
4. Use the Mangal font, which comes with Windows, when the notice asks for it.

You do not need to install anything to practise here: the practice app maps your English keys to the InScript letters and shows the finger to use.

Exams whose notices name InScript

• SSC CHSL - LDC / JSA: English: QWERTY. Hindi: at the test centre you choose InScript, Krutidev, Remington GAIL or Remington CBI.
• UPSSSC - Junior Assistant (take English and Hindi parts): Hindi: Mangal with InScript, or Kruti Dev 010 with Remington. Check your notice.
• EPFO - Social Security Assistant: Hindi: InScript with the Mangal font.
• AIIMS - Junior Administrative Assistant / LDC: Changes by recruitment: Mangal InScript, Remington GAIL or CBI, or Kruti Dev. Check your notice.
• MP CPCT - typing module (English and Hindi): Hindi: Remington (GAIL) or InScript, your choice, with a Unicode font.