here â the recruitment isnât restricted to them.
Government officials said that the state has also recruited people from outside the Dom community for this post and some of them are from the general castes and other backward classes.
This recruitment notice from Panihati state general hospital on May 19, 2021, mentions Dom as a post and calls for walk-in interviews.
âDomâ is a formal name of a government services post that comes under the âDâ category, part of
four categories of government employees. The designation exists in the departments of health, police and municipal affairs.
In the health department, the post is found in government hospital morgues with descriptors such as âdissection hall attendantâ or âlaboratory attendantâ, though these are always mentioned with the formal name of the post: Dom/Dome. The municipal affairs department has the post for the removal of unclaimed or unidentified bodies and animal carcasses from streets. The police post is for the removal of bodies related to unnatural deaths.