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Junior Stalin peddles fake news on NPCIL recruitment

January 19, 2021
The Commune

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) had put out a recruitment notification for engaging Trade Apprentices on stipend basis for its Madras Atomic Power Station located at Kalpakkam near Chennai.

Applications were called for a total of 65 seats that includes fitter, welder, turner, welder, electrician, wireman, draughtsman, etc. with the last date to apply being January 11, 2021.

DMK chief M.K. Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin, who is also the party’s youth wing secretary, put out a tweet on January 18 saying that it was condemnable to hold the Trade Apprentice exam only in Mumbai. He claimed that the youth of Tamil Nadu did not apply for the job after coming to know that they had to make a trip to Mumbai twice.

He also went on to question the recruitment process stating that having a written test followed by an interview for a job that requires the qualification of ITI/Diploma raises doubts.

“The examination should be conducted in Tamil Nadu and the Central and State Governments should make sure that these jobs are made available to the youth of Tamil Nadu.”, he wrote in his tweet.

However these claims of the DMK’s Youth Wing Secretary are nothing but outright lies.

First things first, the claim that the exam happening only in Mumbai is completely false. There is no mention of exam happening in Mumbai. In fact there is no mention of “Mumbai” anywhere in the official notification.

The notification also clearly states that the preference will be given to applicants belonging to neighbouring villages.

Source: NPCIL official notification for engaging Trade Apprentices at MAPS, Kalpakkam

Last time for a similar apprenticeship program in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, the written test was conducted in Chennai, Coimbatore, Kancheepuram and Madurai. Recruitments for Executive Trainees are done through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) exam that happens across several cities in India. For Grade A and B posts too, exams are held across India and not just in Mumbai.

Hence, Udhayanidhi Stalin’s claims are false and misleading.

(With inputs from tweets of Krishna Kumar Murugan)