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A dream come true for tribal youths


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402 candidates make it to the Army
KORAPUT: For the two tribal youths, Samir Kumar Masti of Mahadeiput and Jagannath Muduli of Putkerenga in Koraput district getting into the defence sector was a dream come true when they were included into the list of fit ones to appear the written test for the posts of tradesmen in the army recruitment rally which was concluded on Saturday. They were among the 402 successful candidates who had passed different physical and medical tests so as to appear the written exams at Gopalpur in November. It was not the post that one holds was important but the place like Indian Army where one gets the opportunity to serve was more important, Samir said.
It was also important to see that many tribal youth had come up this time for getting into the Indian Army, Col. Jyoti Prakash Srivastava, director army recruitment zone of Gopalpur said. While the tribal candidates were the first to clear all the standards laid down for testing their physical endurance, it was the medical test that they fail the most.
Because of the enormous amount of pressure they exert on their body from their childhood to support their parents to meet the daily needs of the family, they very often suffer from deformities in their legs and hands and make them unfit for getting selected into the forces, he added.
While talking to the media at Koraput on the final day of the rally on Saturday, he said that despite of implementing very strict measures on the ground to see that the selected candidates were 100 per cent fit for the next phase of selection, many candidates were also offered more than one chance so as to rectify their mistakes before finally getting rejected. However no stones had remained unturned while scrutinising the documents of the candidates for the fear of producing fake certificates as was done in the past.
At least two candidates from Koraput were sent to jail in the past for producing fake certificates during a recruitment rally being conducted at Berhampur some time back which had made them more alert in this regard, he said. The support from the district administration was highly praiseworthy, he added.


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