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Clarify if postal exams will be held in Tamil in future too, ASG told
Even as the Centre scrapped the recently-held Postal department examination which had dropped regional languages, including Tamil, as a medium of examination following protest against it in Rajya Sabha by MPs from Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the Assistant Solicitor General (ASG) G Karthikeyan appearing for the Union government to get instructions on whether Tamil will be a medium of instruction when the examination is notified in the future.
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The division bench comprising Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad passed the direction based on a PIL filed by Ezhilarasan, MLA and secretary of the DMK students’ wing. He had challenged the exclusion of Tamil as one of the languages of the recruitment examination called by the Department of Posts for the post of postman and mail guard.
Senior Advocate P. Wilson appearing for the petitioner submitted that exclusion of Tamil as one of the languages for the examination was illegal. All along, recruitment for these Class IV posts were done in English, Hindi and the regional languages in States where Hindi is not the local language.
He further noted that there are only nine to 10 States whose local language have been shown as Hindi. Hence the citizens in other States, whose mother tongue and medium of instruction is not Hindi, are at a disadvantage, Wilson argued.
Further, while the Assistant Solicitor General stated that the examinations have been cancelled by the government, Wilson countered it, saying, “Merely because one of the examinations for in-service candidates has been cancelled doesn’t automatically revive Tamil as one of the examination languages in the future”.
Accepting the contentions of the petitioner, the bench posted the matter on Tuesday after directing the Assistant Solicitor General to get instructions on the way the examination will be conducted when it is notified in the future.
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