CHENNAI: Opposition DMK on Friday asked the Union government to “end the injustice” by allowing candidates who appear for competitive examinations to secure a job in Group B, Group C and Group D services in Central government offices in Tamil. Till now, aspirants can write examinations either in English or in Hindi conducted by the Staff Selection Commission.
In a letter to minister of state in the PMO, personnel, public grievances and pensions Jitendra Singh, DMK working president M.K. Stalin, said the question papers for the competitive examinations set in both Hindi and English give “greater advantage” to candidates appearing from northern regions compared to those from the South - especially from TN.
“While the candidates from northern region have the privilege of writing the examination in their own mother tongue Hindi, candidates from Tamil Nadu are deprived of the right to write this exam in their mother tongue. By imposing unreasonable restriction, unemployed youth from Tamil Nadu are unjustifiably prevented from getting recruited in to the Central government offices in Tamil Nadu,” Stalin said in his letter. He also complained there is no proportionate representation for the home state candidates but there is a disproportionate representation for candidates from Northern India in all Central government offices situated in Tamil Nadu.
“I request you to urgently take appropriate action to remove this discrimination for Tamil Nadu candidates and allow them to write the national level examinations conducted by the Staff Selection Commission in their mother tongue - Tamil,” he said.
Quoting the results of Combined Graduate level Examination held in 2016, Stalin said while the candidates who wrote the exam in Hindi were recruited in thousands across states like Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the candidates who were not allowed to write the exams in their mother tongue were recruited only in hundreds in the southern states.
“Comparatively, just 111 candidates were recruited in Tamil Nadu but 3,922 candidates were selected from Delhi alone. This has been leading to a total denial of opportunity to the youth from my state for past five years and the Central government offices in Tamil Nadu have to depend on more number of candidates recruited from northern regions,” he said.
Terming the national level examinations “highly discriminatory, unjustifiably unreasonable and totally unlawful”, Stalin said the system is causing anguish and agony in the minds of the youth in Tamil Nadu.
