Chennai:
In this regard, in a letter sent to all District Collectors, Commissioner of Revenue Administration SK Prabhakar said:
Collectors have provided the information as per the request to provide the information about the number of vacant village assistant posts in each district as on September 3. It has been revealed that there are 2,748 Village Assistant vacancies across Tamil Nadu from 1.10.2019 to 30.9.2022.
Immediate action should be taken to fill these vacancies subject to rules. He has directed to fill up the vacancies of village assistants without any violation following the government guidelines.
Applications received for this purpose should be considered on November 14th, formal interviews should be conducted and appointment orders should be issued by December 19th. Also, the list of selected candidates should be published on December 19 and work orders should be issued on the same day.
Deputy Collector should be appointed as monitoring officer at taluk level to monitor the writing skill test for this purpose. You can write an essay not exceeding 100 words on village details or land inscriptions or village accounts or any topic mentioned by the District Collector.
Candidates can be asked to read passages from any book to test their reading ability.
Are the recruitments conducted at the Taluk level by the Tahsildars properly followed the rules? District Collectors should confirm that. And on which date can the village assistant selection process be conducted? It also states that the Collectors should issue the rules and guidelines to the tahsildars as a circular.