Kalimpong,19th April

The unemployed youth of Darjeeling Hills have not been able to fill form of SBI recruitment process due to Exception of Non-Inclusion of ‪‎Nepali‬ Language Option during Form Filling.

SBI Recruitment and Promotion Department in its advertisement no CRPD/CR/2016-17/01 dated April 3 have invited online application for recruitment of  Junior Associates(Customer Support and Sale) and Junior Agricultural Associates in clerical cadre in SBI from 5th April to 25th April

The problem which is arsing while entering the form process is when one chooses  to file detail for Bengal region the language automatically detect official language as Bengali  language .

So due to this the problem faced by Hill and Duars Terai area is of non inclusion of Nepali or Hindi language.

The problem was raised by Darjeeling MP S S Ahluwaliya on 10th April who wrote a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitely requesting him to instruct SBI and all other central entity to ensure the Nepali language and all other language that are actually recognized as official language of West Bengal to be made optional during application process  . He also demand Nepali to made optional in North Eastern States, UP , HP , Uttrakhand and Delhi where Nepali speaking people reside in large number.

But the letter too till now have not solve the problem as still their has been no changes in SBI online process. The form filling process will continue till 25th April

Raising this issue  CPIM Kalimpong Zonal Committee has too given a memorandum to Deputy General Manager Siliguri on 18th April.

Party Kalimpong General Secretary Tara Sundas submitted the memorandum .

He said ' Nepali language has been regarded as one of the official language of hill areas since 1967, which make it difficult for Nepali Speaking people in such cases where official language has been marked as Bengali.

The party has demanded to look into the serious matter and give justice to Nepali speaking people of Hill, Terai and Duars.