The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board has introduced electronic gadgets in the recruitment process to avoid alleged malpractices in measuring height, weight and chest details of candidates.
Disclosing this to reporters here on Monday, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Kancheepuram Range, K.N. Sathiyamurthy said that the board had acquired the gadget to accurately measure height and weight simultaneously, and the chest measurements — normal and when flexed — of the candidates.
This data captured by the gadget would be passed on to the control unit, where the system would correlate them with the specifications fed into it to decide whether the candidate had qualified or not with respect to the physical measurement test.
The examiners had to ensure that the candidates stand on the weighing and height measurement scale (having electronic sensors embedded in them) in the correct position and wrap the measurement tape on the candidate’s chest appropriately for measuring the normal and expanded condition of the chest.
This machine has been introduced for the first time in police selection process for recruitment of sub-inspectors, being conducted in all the DIG Range Headquarters in the State on Tuesday, Mr.Sathiyamurthy added.
Around 230 candidates from Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, who have cleared the written examinations for the sub-inspector posts held earlier this year, would be attending the three-day physical efficiency test.
Observer candidate
Further, for the first time, a candidate who has cleared the physical measurement test would oversee the measurement process as an ‘observer.’ The board has ordered that the entire selection process, starting from verification of call letters to the final test of physical efficiency events, should be videographed without fail, the DIG added.
