Is there problem in placement due to colour blindness for mineral engineers?
If one is recruited through Union Public Service Commission for a Government of India job, one has to go through rigorous medical tests and colour blindness will certainly be detected. Consequently, the candidate will be rejected. However, for private/public sector or most state Government jobs, it is more likely that colour blindness will remain undetected. You will be surprised to know that quite a large number of people in our society or any society are colourblind to different degrees. I know a doctor who cannot distinguish signal lights and drives on the basis of glowing tail-lights of vehicles in front of him. The identification / study of minerals both in hand specimen and in thin section needs accurate colour conception. It is true that there are other properties, but colour is sometimes the only identification. A property called pleochroism needs a very high degree of colour conception which cannot be avoided in the job of a mineralogist. Hence a person with colour blindness s
