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RRI employees cry foul, urge inquiry
A group of Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka (RRISL) employees requested the Plantation Industries Minister to hold an immediate investigation into alleged malpractices in the recent recruitment of undergraduates to the Institute and other alleged misdeeds.

In a letter to Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, the employees pointed out several irregularities in the recruitment of the undergraduates. They claimed that the examinations were conducted in a disorganised manner and that they doubted the marking of answer scripts.

They also claimed that the interview procedures too were unacceptable.
They further alleged that neither the structure, number of papers, duration, subject nor any other information was provided to the candidates and instead they were allowed to select the paper they wished to answer after reading two question papers prepared separately for agronomists and rubber chemists.
The employees alleged that those who obtained the highest marks were those connected to the management, with a research officer’s wife getting the highest marks, an experimental officer close to the management the second highest and the third highest marks going to a research student of a senior research officer.

They said the interviews too were controlled; with some from the panel not being given the opportunity to question the candidates and afterwards the marks from the interview being ignored in the selection process.
The group also claimed that a recently recruited administrative officer had been selected even though he did not possess the required qualifications.

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