Pune: PMC Flooded With Thousands of Emails as JE Aspirants Demand Exam Postponement; Administrative Work Hit
Pune, 26th November 2025: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is grappling with a major digital disruption after thousands of applicants for the Junior Engineer (JE) recruitment exam launched a coordinated email campaign urging the civic body to defer the test scheduled for December 1. The overwhelming surge of messages, received across numerous official department inboxes, has clogged mail servers and severely slowed routine operations.
Officials said the sheer volume of messages has made it difficult for staff to trace essential correspondence, including daily communications, internal orders and citizen grievances. Owing to administrative protocols, emails cannot be deleted in bulk, leaving employees to sift through overflowing inboxes manually.
The PMC’s recruitment drive for 171 engineering posts has attracted a massive applicant pool, many of whom are currently engaged in government service. Several candidates pointed out that they have been assigned duties for the municipal council elections on December 2, making it nearly impossible to appear for the JE exam the previous day.
Compounding the issue, numerous applicants have been allotted exam centres 400–500 km away from their home districts. Travelling such long distances, they claim, is impractical when they are expected to report for election duty within hours.
Candidates have appealed to the civic administration to take these “genuine and unavoidable constraints” into account and consider postponing the exam.
The incident has sparked considerable discussion internally, as officials attempt to cope with the operational slowdown triggered by the sudden digital overload.
Despite the disruption, the civic body has yet to announce any decision regarding rescheduling the examination.
