SHILLONG:
The Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) has written to Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma seeking his intervention to urge the Ministry of Communication, Government of India, to amend the draft model notification of the Department of Posts for engaging Gramin Dak Sevaks in Meghalaya.
In the letter, FKJGP President Dundee C Khongsit, said that the state government should urge the Department of Posts to prescribe knowledge of one of the languages of any of the three major tribes of Meghalaya in addition to Hindi and English as that will benefit the local youths.
“Since the recruitment process for the above-mentioned posts is likely to commence immediately, we would request for your kind and timely intervention on the matter so that our local youths are not deprived of employment opportunities in the Department of Posts as has happened in the past,” Khongsit said in the letter.
Notably, the Department of Posts has decided to recruit 445 Gramin Dak Sevaks, Branch Post Masters and Assistant Branch Post Masters for posting in post offices across the State of Meghalaya for which the recruitment process is likely to be taken up very soon.
The FKJGP said that since the draft model notification of Department of Posts has prescribed Hindi or English as the local language for engagement of Gramin Dak Sevaks, they feel that this criterion will deprive the chances of local youth to avail this employment opportunity as· they have to compete with candidates from outside the state who normally score better in these languages especially Hindi.