Chennai, August 8: A total of 1.73 lakh candidates - male and female - appeared for 10,117 vacancies in the police and fire services departments. The written test for the selection of candidates was conducted in 105 centres all over Tamil Nadu today.
According to sources, there are 630 vacancies in the fire services department and 487 prison warders are to be selected through this test apart from the posts in the police department.
About 5,000 candidates appeared for the test that was conducted at Velammal school in Mogappair and 1,000 each in Loyola College in Nungambakkam and Ethiraj College in Egmore. All of them were male candidates.
It seemed that the girls on the outskirts of Chennai are bolder as 866 women candidates undertook the test at Chromepet apart from 2000 plus male candidates.
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