Puducherry DMK stages protest against centralised job recruitment in Jipmer
Leading the demonstration, Leader of Opposition and DMK Puducherry convenor R. Siva said Jipmer, on July 22, announced that recruitment to vacancies for nursing officers would be held through the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE) model.
He pointed out that when Jipmer conducted its recruitments, many local aspirants from Puducherry and those from Tamil Nadu had managed to secure remunerative job positions. However, the adoption of a common entrance test will result in local avenues being open to candidates across India.
The institution's adoption of the CRE model based on All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, would further reduce employment prospects for candidates from the region. The move by the Central government was aimed at giving preference for appointments to people from North India. This would also deprive Jipmer of its autonomy, he alleged.
Mr. Siva also took exception to the bilingual (Hindi and English) nature of entrance tests and the special age relaxation offered to Union government employees, stating that these measures placed Tamil and English-speaking local candidates at a clear disadvantage.
He called upon Jipmer authorities to revert to the previous recruitment system for nursing and Group B and C posts in place of the CRE, and to reserved 50% of posts for domicile job aspirants.
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