7000 apply for 13 waiter jobs requiring class 4 passed candidates in Maharashtra, most are graduates
Class 12 passed students and college graduates formed the highest number of applicants for 13 waiter jobs at the Maharashtra secretariat canteen.
When 13 job vacancies opened up for waiters in the canteen at the Maharashtra secretariat Mantralaya requiring only class 4 passed candidates to apply, it got as many as 7000 applications, most of them from college graduates, said a government official. The large number of overqualified applications for such a job shows the state of unemployment in Maharashtra.
About the selection process to hire waiters for Mantralaya canteen
The government official said a 100-mark written exam was recently conducted for the waiter posts, and the educational qualification required was having passed Class 4.
"The exam formalities got completed on December 31 and currently the joining process is on. Out of the 13 selected applicants, eight are men and the rest women. Two-three people are yet to submit their documents and officially join," he said.
The official informed that out of the 13 applicants selected, 12 are graduates and one has passed Class 12 and that the age group of selected applicants was between 25-27 years.
.He added that the maximum applicants for the 13 posts were graduates and those who had cleared Class 12.
Incident shows sorry state of employment in Maharashtra
Slamming the state government over the induction of graduates as waiters in the Mantralaya canteen, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde said ministers and secretaries should be ashamed of taking the services of educated individuals.
"Seven thousand applicants for merely 13 posts is a blatant example of the employment conditions in the country and Maharashtra. It is unfortunate graduates were selected for the posts when the eligibility criteria was Class 4 pass," the NCP leader said.
He sought to know how would ministers and secretaries feel taking food, tea and snacks from double graduates.
Past incidents of such extreme number of applications for government jobs in Maharashtra
Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi on providing employment to over two crore people in his tenure, Munde said, "Recently in Maharashtra, 10.5 lakh people had applied for 852 vacant police posts. Similarly, one crore unemployed youth applied for 10,000 posts in the railways."
He said in 2018, one crore people lost their jobs, out of which 65 lakh were women, adding that programmes like Make in India, Make in Maharashtra, Skill India were failures.
Munde said decisions like demonetisation and GST had finished small and medium industries which, in turn, had led to an increase in unemployment.
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