8,500 apply for 18 posts of peon

Sukhmeet Bhasin

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Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 19

In an example of increasing unemployment graph in the state, around 8,500 youth have applied for the 18 posts of peon and one post of process server in the District Court Complex.

It was shocking to see that youngsters with MEd, MA, MSc and BTech degrees and diploma holders have also applied for peon’s posts. The minimum qualification required for the post is up to middle standard and the pay is around Rs 10,000.

Hapinder Singh, a resident of Faridkot, who is an MA and MEd degree holder, said he was not getting job in government institutes and private institutes were not paying well.

He said his father had been expired and he was the only earning member in his family due to which he had applied for the job.

Gurdas Singh, a resident of Sardulgarh, who holds MSc and BA and Gurlal Singh of Multania who holds MSc (IT) degree was among the applicants who have applied for the post.

Manjit Kaur and Amarjit Kaur, residents of Bathinda, both BTech degree holders, said they were not getting job anywhere, due to which they are quite fed up and now they have applied for the job.

On the first day of the three-day recruitment process today, around 2,980 applicants turned up for the recruitment at the District Court Complex.

Long queues were witnessed during the registration of the applicants at the entrance of the District Court Complex. Police officials had even resorted to a mild cane-charge to control the rush.

The trend shows that there is a lack of jobs in the state. People prefer government jobs due to job security and fixed hours of working. Even at lower levels, the government salary was better than the private sector.

Former MLA Harmander Singh Jassi said this shows that the state government had miserably failed in providing jobs to youth in the past 10 years.

He said it was the duty of the state government to provide jobs to educated youth for the betterment and progress of the state.