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Friday 31 May 2013

Job-seeker branded ‘mentally-ill’ ; Chennai

 



For this job-seeker, the shock of his life came when he approached the employment office. Ramraj (41) of Hosur registered at the employment exchange in 1987 with his qualification as class 10. Later Ramraj, a physically challenged person, did M Com and PGDCA, and renewed his qualifications. 

He renewed his registration four times in 26 years and kept all the renewal cards with him. In November 2012, he got a job offer as a night watchman in a government school. When he approached the district employment exchange to get his updated document, he got a shock of his life as it declared him ‘mentally challenged’.

“I was shattered when I read it. I was declared as mentally challenged candidate. None of my credentials except my class 10 qualification was renewed in my file. I met with an accident and my right leg joints have completely stopped functioning. Doctors in the Dharmapuri medical college hospital have given a report that I am physically disabled person with ortho complaints,” he said.

When Ramraj appro­ached the Krishnagiri district employment officer Kasthuri for correction, he suffered untold misery. “The officer verbally abused me. She called me names and alleged I forged my certificates. The truth is the employment exchange has forged my records,” he cried. Not just Ramraj, many applicants at the Krishnagiri complained of Kasthuri’s temper.

Sardar Barur, a minority, was ‘converted’ to a Hindu. When he questioned the officer, he said he was ill-treated and thrown out. For Reena Kumari, her name appeared as Rukmani in the documents. She was shunted out of the final interview by a government department because a different name figured in her report.
When contacted, district collector T.P.Rajesh said, “Already we have received complaints against Kasthuri on different grounds. We have started inquiries now. She will be pulled up.”

Job portal goes jobless for two hours

The site ‘www.tnvelaivaaippu.gov.in’- a government employment exchange portal, was jobless on Thursday. This site run by the department of employment and training has the database of 65 lakh job seekers in Tamil Nadu, crashed for more than two hours, as the site failed to work. While the employment exchanged blamed BSNL for the crash, officials in BSNL told DC that there was no problem in the network on Thursday.

In order to help out students who have just cleared their Plus-2 exams, the government announced that students can register their qualification directly on the government site. And there was no need to wait in the queues in front of the government employment offices. The site promises to have live register of employment offices and provide information to students and job seekers about opportunities in government and private industries. But the crash of the site prevented students and some school administration staff who were ready to help students in remote areas to enter the data in the online portal.

Sekar and V.Meenakashi, joint directors of the directorate of employment,   and training in Guindy, admitted that the site crashed for a few hours on Thursday. “The site crashed for a few hours in the morning.

There is a problem in the BSNL network in Guindy. The site was working well later in the day,” they said. When contacted, a senior BSNL officer clarified that the BSNL network did not have any problem in the Guindy or any other area on Thursday. “Our network did not suffer any problems. Probably the server of the employment exchange might have failed to work,” said the officer.


Source : Deccan Chronicle , 31st May 2013 

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