HYDERABAD: Officials of Singareni Collieries Company Limited have refuted the allegation that people bearing certain surnames or hailing from certain families or areas got selected to the post of Junior Assistant (Grade-II) by fraudulent means or by committing irregularities in the recruitment test.
A few posts were doing the rounds on Whatsapp and social networking websites stating that people with the surnames Bandi, Bandari and others, and from Nagarjuna Colony in Mancherial got selected for the post.
The examination for the Junior Assistant post was conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
(JNTU-H) on October 11, and a provisional merit list was released on October 18.
Out of the 70,509 candidates who wrote the examination, 67,000 were from Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam districts because 80 per cent of the non-executive posts are reserved for applicants from the four districts.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday here, Jay Pavithran Kumar, SCCL director (personnel & welfare) clarified that only a provisional merit list had been released, and the final list of qualified candidates was yet to be announced.
He said that detailed investigation was conducted into the allegations, and the surname, caste, religion, region, parents’ names and other details of the candidates provisionally selected were verified, and the allegations were to be baseless.
About the complaint that five candidates with the surname, ‘Bandi’, were selected by fraudulent means, Pavithran said that one of the five belonged to BC-A category, one to BC-B and three to BC-D category.
“The names of the fathers of the three BC-D candidates are different which shows that they are not from the same family. When we checked their addresses, we found that one is from Warangal town, one from Pedampally, and the third from Srirampur,” he explained.
Similarly, he clarified, there was no foul play in the selection of twins having the surname, ‘Bandari’. “Only one out of 70-odd candidates from Nagarjuna Colony in Mancherial made it to the provisional selection list,” he said and asserted that the allegation that more than 70 candidates got selected was not true.