Ravi Dhaliwal Tribune News Service Pathankot March 15 Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol and his party colleague and Sujanpur MLA Dinesh Singh Babbu have taken up cudgels on behalf of unemployed youth of the area by urging the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to allow youngsters who could not take the 2020 recruitment examinations which were cancelled to sit in the examinations slated to be held this year. The BRO is a road construction unit of the Indian Army that builds and maintains the road network in border areas. Since the BRO has pegged 21 as the maximum age limit students who were born in 1999 and who wanted to take the test last year but could not do so because of its cancellation due to the pandemic find themselves automatically disqualified because of overage in 2021. Both Deol and Babbu want the BRO to declare 2020 as a zero-year for 1999-born youngsters and as such allow them to sit in this years examination. About 2500-3000 youngsters appear for these tests every year from the Sujanpur Bhoa and Pathankot assembly seats and roughly 10-15 per cent are absorbed. Deol has written a letter to Lt Gen Rajiv Chaudhury Director General (DG) BRO seeking his intervention. “I urge you to consider this relaxation as a one-time special case” said the MP. Panjak Joshi the man who looks after the MPs affairs in the constituency said Deol would personally meet the DG in New Delhi next week. Babbu said hundreds of youngsters from his assembly seat apply for BRO posts every year. “The BROs motto is We will either find a way or make one. I urge the DG to find a way out of this vexatious issue. Already unemployment is at a peak and this development will only complicate matters” he said. He revealed half a dozen delegations of parents had met him in the last two months. Babbu said “Every second household in Sujanpur Bhoa and Pathankot has at least one of its members in the defence services. “The BRO is considered to be an extended arm of these services. Ever since it came into existence in 1960 it has always been a fertile ground for providing jobs to the residents of this area. If the need arises I myself will go to meet the DG.”

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