DEPARTMENT OF POSTS HAS SOUGHT RFP [REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL] FOR PROCESSING DIFFERENT DIRECT RECRUITMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATIONS ON "TURNKEY BASIS"
Department website says that the Process shall include "Assistance in designing advertisement - Application handling - Admit card generation - Conduct of examination including computer / typing test - & - Result Processing.
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Department has said that the Bids from interested Applicants shall be submitted before 28.04.2010.
The examination will be in OMR [Optical Mark Recognition] Answer sheets. OMR is the process of capturing human-marked data from document forms or answer sheets. The Answer sheets will be objective type and the same will be valued through scanning machines. Students mark the answer sheets by darkening circles marked on a pre-printed sheets and afterwards the sheets are automatically graded by a scanning machine.
The need for large scale computer usage in certain examinations and going for objective type papers may be some of the reasons for prefering this move by the department. There may be other reasons also behind such as leakage of question papers - chasing the answer sheets and corruption - setting lighter and harder question papers in different circles - etc. However no one is clear about the full impact of outsourcing the holding of entire examinations for recruitment through private firms.
We request all our comrades to study the whole document of the department and send in their valuable opinions to the headquarters. The full text of the document is available in the website of the India Post. By clicking the link below also the document can be downloaded:
1 comment:
Comrade,
It is not at all a welcome move. There already exits a blemish less system in our Department, which is time tested and less expensive. Then
why this deviation. If there is any difficulty the work can be
entrusted to SSC. There is no need to pay a huge sum to private firms when we are already cash starved. Please publish the views of theFederation in our site.00.
Si. Viswanathan TVM GPO
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