More than 4,500 government recognised typewriting institutes and more than 1,000 non registered institutes across Tamil Nadu are on the final stage of closure as the Higher Education Department has decided to scrap the traditional typewriting lower and higher exams.
Accordingly, in near future the typewriting examinations will be conducted through computers.
A senior official from the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE), seeking clarity, said that the Higher Education Department had already issued an order in which the rules and regulations for the certificate course in Computer on Office Automation (COA) are modified.
It combines the typewriting examination and certificate course in COA as a single certificate course as a prerequisite qualification for getting appoitment to the TN State and Subordinate services. “To meet the challenges, the State government decided to implement a computer-based online exam platform. A suitable software firm will be engaged to develop the online-based exam,” he added.
Since, today's modern age office employees and employers use computer for typing which in turn urges the young IT, Computer science aspirants of the necessity to learn computer based typing.
TN Typewriting Computer Institutes Association (TNTCIA) members have staged a protest demonstration in Chennai urging the State government to retain the existing model of conducting typewriting exams. “Rural students might be affected as they may not be able to join computer centres to learn typewriting skills since those institutions might charge more,” he pointed out.
Moreover, In all offices either Government or Corporate offices including small private companies use computer as single mode of typing any form of documents.
The olden day courts were using typing machines to document the actions and orders passed at court. In this there was a major drawback noticed as in typing machine the typist should not make any single mistake while typing, even a single letter mistake within a document causes huge stress for the typist as well as the majestrate/judge. Since, long ago foreign countries were already changed over to computer based typing in courts.
And henceforth indian courts also started using stenography machines of shorthand where a software is utilized to convert the transcript into a document and corrects mistakes in spelling.
In near future stenography might also be scrapped and computers will replace the use of stenography to utilize the potential of AI documenting.