Protest against cancellation of interview by Archit Watts
Chandigarh, October 23Around 700 persons raised slogans against the authorities of Directorate Supplies and Disposal Department of Haryana for the inconvenience caused to them due to the cancellation of the interview scheduled for today.
These candidates hailed from far off places in Haryana, and were in city to appear for the interview for the post of ‘sevadar’ (peon) in the department, whose cancellation according to the authorities was notified in a daily newspaper.
A cop tries to disperse the enraged candidates in front of the Supplies and Disposals Department of Haryana at Sector 22, Chandigarh, on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
However, many of them were unaware of this and held the authorities responsible for their inconvenience and started raising slogans. The police had to be called to disperse them. “They take us to be fools. Even if the interview was cancelled, wasn’t it their duty to inform us through official letter? They published notification in just one newspaper and feel they had done the needful, asked an enraged candidate from Hisar.
“They should be paying us compensation for this. How unprofessional and irresponsible are they that they perceived that their notification in one paper must have been read by all candidates,” another candidate said.
However, the department officials are in no mood to owe up to the grievances.
Director of the department Shashi Gulati said, “Even I am surprised that large number of candidates were unaware of the cancellation. We had notified it in the same paper as the advertisement of job. We also had displayed notice outside our office, but these people were looking for a chance to create havoc.”
Meanwhile, no date has been announced as yet for this interview.

Chandigarh Tribune October 24, 2008