CHENNAI: Dr S Ramadoss, PMK founder, on Tuesday questioned the cooperative department’s notification to recruit 2,257 assistants and junior assistants in the cooperatives directly even after the State government took a policy decision to fill up all the posts through the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC).

“It has been announced that the 2,257 assistants and junior assistants to be appointed to cooperative societies will not be selected at the state level and will be selected through competitive examination and written test through the District Recruitment Centre, a statutory body operating under the cooperative sector. In contrast to the practice of recruitment at the state level for posts with educational qualification above 10th standard, the plan to directly recruit people at the district level is not acceptable,” he said in a statement.

Pointing to the charges of irregularities raised over the recruitment at the district levels for cooperative societies, he said that AIADMK government scrapped its plan for direct recruitment for the fair price shops in 2017.

He demanded the government to scrap the plan to directly recruit for cooperative department and it should be done through the TNPSC.