Youth Congress ultimatum

Statesman News Service

MALDA, June 29: The Malda Youth Congress is planning to launch an agitation against Malda Railway Division officials, demanding the scrapping of the personality test which the candidates have to undergo during recruitment for group D category staff. Mr Narendra Nath Tiwari, Congress leader and the new civic body chief of the English Bazaar Municipality, said today that the agitating candidates had submitted a memorandum to the Malda Divisional Railway manager on this issue on 24 June, demanding cancellation of the ongoing recruitment. Mr Tiwari said the Malda Youth Congress will launch a new agitation if authorities concerned do not scrap the personality test within seven days from the date of the submission of deputation. Youth Congress leaders alleged that it was impossible to examine accurately over 700 answersheets in a single day. The divisional railway manager, Mr R Misra, however, said the entire procedure of conducting the written examination and the publication of its results was perfectly executed. About 780 candidates appeared in the written examination for three Group D posts reserved for the physically handicapped.The standard of examination should have ideally been of Class VIII, but this time tough questions were set in the examination, Mr Tiwari alleged.Mr Tiwari added that a good number of candidates holding Masters’ degree and post-graduate candidates from other states had been enlisted for the personality test this year. Thirty-one physically handicapped candidates had been selected for three Group D posts for the Malda Railway Division. The same recruitment test was cancelled twice earlier following allegations from locals that the recruitment rules framed by the Indian Railways were being violated.