New Delhi: As many as 7,000 persons, mostly graduates, had applied for 13 vacancies of canteen waiters in Maharashtra government secretariat for which the required educational qualification was Class IV passout, it was revealed on Friday.
The examination formalities for the vacancies got completed on December 31. A 100-mark written examination was conducted for the positions.
According to sources in the secretariat, out of the 13 selected applicants, eight are men and the rest women.
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people previously applied for 852 vacant police posts in Maharashtra“Currently the joining process is on. Out of the selected persons for the 13 vacancies, 12 are graduates and one has passed class 12. In fact, the maximum applicants for the 13 posts were graduates within the age group of 25-27 years,” the sources revealed to Gulf News.
Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde condemned induction of graduates as waiters.
“This speaks a lot about the employment scenario in the country. The ministers, secretaries and other bureaucratic staff should be ashamed of taking the services of graduates in the capacity of waiters,” Munde said.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ramesh Gupta also lamented the employment conditions in Maharashtra.
“It is highly unfortunate that graduates were selected for the posts where the eligibility criteria was Class four pass. A number as high as seven thousand applications by mostly graduates for merely 13 posts is a blatant example of the employment conditions in the country and Maharashtra. It is pathetic,” Gupta told Gulf News.
He claimed that over one crore people lost their jobs in the country last year, out of which 65 lakh were women.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced several programmes during his tenure. ‘Make in India’, ‘Make in Maharashtra’ and ‘Skill India’ were termed as dream projects of PM Modi but they all turned out to be failures,” he said.
Munde questioned Modi’s claim of providing employment to over two crore people in last four-and-a-half years.
“The decisions such as de-monetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) finished small and medium industries in the country which led to an increase in unemployment. Earlier, 10.5 lakh people had applied for 852 vacant police posts in Maharashtra. Likewise, one crore unemployed youth applied for 10,000 posts in the railways. Where is the country heading,” Munde pointed out.
