Chennai: In a situation where there are more than 3 lakh vacant posts in government departments, the TNPSC has shocked aspirants by issuing a Group-2 exam notification to fill just 41 vacancies.
The TNPSC released the notification for the Combined Group-2 and Group-2A examination the day before yesterday. It includes 41 vacancies in Group-2 posts and 780 vacancies in Group-2A posts. In the Group-2 posts, the number of vacancies is in single digits for all 14 types of posts, including Assistant Inspector, Sub-Registrar, Deputy Commercial Tax Officer, and Secretariat Assistant Section Officer.
In a situation where there are more than 300,000 vacant posts in government departments, the TNPSC Group-2 exam notification has been issued to fill just 41 vacancies, leaving them shocked. Regarding this, TNPSC candidates said:
Government employees’ associations say there are hundreds of thousands of vacancies in government departments. Due to a shortage of staff, one employee has to do work that could be done by three or four people. As a result, the workload on government employees has increased.
Appeal to the Chief Minister
TVK had given an election promise that all vacant posts in government departments would be filled quickly. Based on that, we expected that more vacancies would be filled in the Group-4 and Group-2 examinations, which a large number of candidates can take.
However, contrary to our expectations, it has been announced that only 41 vacancies will be filled through the Group-2 examination. We had expected an announcement to fill at least 2,000 vacancies through the combined Group-2 examination. But through the Group-2 examination, 41 vacancies, and through the Group-2A examination, 780 vacancies, making a total of only 821 posts across both examinations, are to be filled.
Usually, around 8 lakh people apply for the Group-2 exam. It is very disappointing to us that only 41 vacancies have been announced for an exam that so many people can apply for. Therefore, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister should order that additional posts be filled through the Group-2 and Group-2A examinations. They said this.
Tamil Nadu Government Employees Union state president T. Amirthakumar said, "If all categories of posts in the Tamil Nadu government service are included, there will be nearly four and a half lakh vacant posts.
Vacancies are not being shown in order to reduce financial expenditure. When only a small number of vacancies are announced for an exam written by lakhs of people, it creates intense competition. Young people who take the exam two or three times and still do not get a job develop a sense of inferiority and come to believe that they will not get a government job. Since there are a large number of vacancies in government departments, the government should come forward to increase the number of vacancies in the Group-2 exam," he said.
