The Physical Efficiency Test (PET) of the ongoing recruitment in Civil Defence & Home Guards Department in Shillong has been postponed due to heavy rainfall.
Minister for Civil Defence & Home Guards Comingone Ymbon today inspected the venue of the PET and convened an emergent meeting with the Central Recruitment Board and met candidates of the Physical Measurement Test (PMT) and PET.
Commandant General MK Singh, Commissioner & Secretary Vijay Kumar Mantri and senior officers of the department attended the meeting wherein it was decided to postpone the tests until further notice.
The PMT and PET began on September 30 and were scheduled to run further on October 4, 5, 7 and 8 in Shillong. The tests in Tura which began on September 16 concluded on September 26.
The government has also decided that the candidates who had qualified in the PMT and participated in the PET on October 2 and October 3 can take the PET again. However, the marks scored in PET on the two days by candidates who opts to participate in the PET again, will be declared null and void. The Board will consider only the marks scored in PET conducted in a fresh date for the purpose of selection.
The PET conducted for 445 vacant posts consisting of four posts of Sub Inspector, 284 Guardsman, 17 Driver and 140 Non-Combatant Employees (NCE) was underway in Shillong and Tura.
The total number of provisionally accepted candidates for all the posts in the State is 22,474.
A total of 12,197 candidates had appeared for PET in Tura and Shillong, out of which 6,547 qualified and 5650 did not succeed.
