Postal jobs test to be written in only in Hindi and English, Tamil not allowed now
Posted on: 13/Jul/2019 10:15:11 AM
In another few days, the written exam for recruitment of postman and for other posts would be conducted. The news that has come out now is the postal department has withdrawn the option of taking the test in the regional languages. It is now revealed that the exams on 14th of July 2019 would be only in Hindi and English.
It must not be forgotten that till last year the candidates were allowed to take the exams in any of the 15 regional languages where Hindi was not the local language. In southern states, the candidates wrote the postal jobs exams in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Revised exam pattern was released on 11th July and the aspirants have condemned this pattern.
It is shocking to mention here that in the postal department’s recruitment drive in 2016-17 many Hindi speaking candidates belonging to states like Haryana and Maharashtra performed well and scored more than the aspirants from TN in the Tamil paper. This created huge controversy at that time. Information collected is CBI is investigating the case. From the state of TN, more than 1 lakh aspirants have applied for the postal jobs exams. On 14th July, the department of posts would conduct exams to fill the posts of postman, assistant postman, MTS, mail guard and sorting assistants etc. It was revealed by an official data that around 1000 posts are vacant in the state of TN.
Department of posts function under the union ministry of communications is known. The test is conducted by this department of posts and it would have 3 papers. It should be taken into account that the merit list for appointment is based on the score got in paper-1 and other 2 are qualifying tests. The other two papers have multiple choice questions and data entry skill test would be different.
An official notification on 16th May stated that the questions would be in English/Hindi or in any local language of the state. Point is on 11th July the postal department revised the exam pattern and restricted the options to just English and Hindi. It was mentioned by Mr. J. Ramamoorthy, All India Postal Employees Union that it was unfair on the part of the postal department to conduct the exams in just English and Hindi. He spoke about how the vacancies in TN are mostly in the rural places and how the employees must communicate in Tamil as English/Hindi would not be used much in those places.
