Ranchi. Another candidate participating in the running competition for constable recruitment in the Excise Department in Jharkhand has died. The name of the deceased is Muramulla Surya alias Bala. He was a resident of Burmamines in Jamshedpur and fainted while running during the recruitment process on September 12 in Ranchi. After this, he was admitted to Ranchi RIMS for treatment, where he died on Saturday morning. With this, the number of candidates who lost their lives during the constable recruitment race has gone up to 14. Recruitment is being done for 583 posts of constable in the Excise Department in the state. More than five lakh youth of the state have applied for this. Graduates, post graduates and other higher degree holders are also participating in these, while the minimum qualification for this is 10th pass. Under the physical examination for recruitment, running competitions are being organized in different districts from August 22. In this, the condition has been kept for male candidates to complete 10 km race in one hour and for female candidates, 5 km race has to be completed in 40 minutes.
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So far more than 300 candidates have fainted while completing this difficult race. The government had suspended the recruitment process for five days in view of the incidents of candidates dying and fainting. Later, the race was started again from 10 September with some changes in the rules. Palamu has so far lost the maximum number of five youths during the recruitment race. These include Amresh Kumar, a resident of Gaya in Bihar, Ajay Mahato, a resident of Ormanjhi in Ranchi, Arun Kumar, a resident of Chhatarpur in Palamu and Pradeep Kumar, a resident of Godda. So far two youths Suraj Verma and Mahesh Kumar have lost their lives in the ongoing race for recruitment at the Police Training Center located at Padma in Hazaribagh. Three candidates have died in Ranchi and one each in Giridih, East Singhbhum, Giridih, Sahibganj.