Computer Exem For Babus gets Tougher
Now, tech varsity will conduct online exam that is mandatory for class II, III govt employees, teachers to get annual increments; step taken after complaints of malpractice in tests organised by ITIs
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Friday, November 04, 2011 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011110420111104025944134a344fef3/Computer-Exem-For-Babus-gets-Tougher.html)
Government employees who want their annual increment released now need to be better prepared for the mandatory departmental computer test. Fed up with complaints of irregularities in the examination, Department of Employment and Training has asked Gujarat Technological University (GTU) to conduct it online.
The Course in Computer Concepts (CCC) examination that all class II, III and IV government employees and teachers have to clear to get their yearly salary revision was being conducted by ITIs since 2006. However, there were complaints of the employees getting away with cheating, fielding dummy writers and getting wrong evaluation done.
The govt expects the online test by Gujarat Technological University to make the process tamperproof and transparent
“To set the house in order, we have decided to ask GTU to conduct the test now on,” said a highly placed source in the Department of Employment and Training.
Department and GTU officials met in Gandhinagar on Thursday to work out the details. The meeting could not finalise the test dates and the officials decided to meet next week again.
While the state government wants the examinations to roll out around December, GTU has expressed its inability to conduct it as the semester exams begin on November 19 and continue through February 2. About 50,000 employees take the test every three to four months and the university is wary of handling the volume simultaneously with its own examinations, the official said.
Incidentally, no test has been conducted for the last nine months and hence the government wants early papers so that the increments granted to the employees could be regularised. If they do not clear the test before January, the government will find it difficult to grant them their annual increments. Besides, the backlog of employees will only increase.
According to a senior GTU official, the government decided to go online as it would make the process transparent. The exercise was awarded to GTU as it has successfully conducted online GCET for a few years now. Besides, the university has also conducted online tests for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Mangalam, the recruitment process for fixed-pay employees for various government departments.
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Friday, November 04, 2011 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011110420111104025944134a344fef3/Computer-Exem-For-Babus-gets-Tougher.html)
Government employees who want their annual increment released now need to be better prepared for the mandatory departmental computer test. Fed up with complaints of irregularities in the examination, Department of Employment and Training has asked Gujarat Technological University (GTU) to conduct it online.
The Course in Computer Concepts (CCC) examination that all class II, III and IV government employees and teachers have to clear to get their yearly salary revision was being conducted by ITIs since 2006. However, there were complaints of the employees getting away with cheating, fielding dummy writers and getting wrong evaluation done.
The govt expects the online test by Gujarat Technological University to make the process tamperproof and transparent
“To set the house in order, we have decided to ask GTU to conduct the test now on,” said a highly placed source in the Department of Employment and Training.
Department and GTU officials met in Gandhinagar on Thursday to work out the details. The meeting could not finalise the test dates and the officials decided to meet next week again.
While the state government wants the examinations to roll out around December, GTU has expressed its inability to conduct it as the semester exams begin on November 19 and continue through February 2. About 50,000 employees take the test every three to four months and the university is wary of handling the volume simultaneously with its own examinations, the official said.
Incidentally, no test has been conducted for the last nine months and hence the government wants early papers so that the increments granted to the employees could be regularised. If they do not clear the test before January, the government will find it difficult to grant them their annual increments. Besides, the backlog of employees will only increase.
According to a senior GTU official, the government decided to go online as it would make the process transparent. The exercise was awarded to GTU as it has successfully conducted online GCET for a few years now. Besides, the university has also conducted online tests for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Mangalam, the recruitment process for fixed-pay employees for various government departments.
