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*Syndicate Bank in trouble over Hindi* ** *Chennai, Aug 5: *A government bank is in trouble in the Dravidian heartland over its 'insistence' that candidates seeking employment in it must be literate in Hindi. An influential Dalit party is threatening an agitation unless the bank withdraws the 'unconstitutional' stipulation denying jobs to most Tamils not conversant with the Rashtriyabhasha. The Syndicate Bank has recently posted on its website a list of candidates chosen for interview for the posts of probationary clerks and officers. The interviews are to be held end August at various centers for filling up 400 posts of probationary clerks and 300 probationary officers. A total of 4000 candidates have been called for the clerical interviews and 3000 for the viva voce for the posts of officers. "We are aware that in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the schools teach mostly in the local languages and there is very little of Hindi. Most of the candidates called for interview in these two states do not know Hindi," Mr Pramod said in a phone interview from his Manipal headquarters. He pointed out that para eight of the same interview-announcement has asked the candidates to get mark-sheets "showing the state language as one of the subjects highlighted." The bank executive also explained that all the public sector organisations should follow the Official Languages Act of the Union Government, which stipulated that knowledge of Hindi was a must for their employees. "We are not being strict in applying this clause for candidates from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The rule applies for those from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka since these two southern states teach Hindi in schools under the three-language formula," Mr Pramod said. The DPI is not convinced. "Why have the clause insisting on Hindi if they are not going to enforce it? The very presence of that pre-condition in the advertisement would have discouraged thousands of bright graduates in Tamil Nadu from applying just because they do not know Hindi. This is against our Constitution which guarantees equal opportunity for all across the country," said the DPI legislator D. Ravikumar, who was himself an employee of Syndicate Bank till he opted for 'voluntary retirement' to contest in the state elections in 2006. -- Please visit blog: http://tamilbodhi.wordpress.com RAVIKUMAR B1B MLA Hostel Chepauk,Chennai 600 005 Mobile:94430 33305 / 93454 19266 ------------------------------ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket:<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48253/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC>mail, news, photos & more. -- Ranjit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
