1,100 applicants turn up for 9 posts

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, March 19

Around 1,100 applicants holding higher education degrees turned up for nine posts of peon and process server on Monday, the day one of the recruitment process held at the district courts complex.

Youths with master’s, graduation and diploma degrees have also applied for the peon’s job for which the minimum qualification is middle school education with mandatory Punjabi subject. The job carries a monthly salary of about Rs 4,900 to Rs 10,680.

People prefer government jobs due to job security and fixed hours of work. Even at lower levels, the government salary is better than the private sector.

Lack of jobs in rural areas with shrinking land holdings is the prime force driving the youth to apply for government jobs no matter what the remuneration is.

The district courts had called for recruitment for nine posts, which include 5 posts of peon (two general, one backward class, one scheduled caste and one post is reserved for ex-servicemen) and there are four posts for process server (three general and one scheduled caste).

On the first day of the four-day recruitment process, the applicants whose names start from alphabet A to G were called for interview.

Gurpreet Singh, an applicant holding a graduate degree, said, “I don’t have any job. I am the only person in the family on whom other members can rely for income, due to which I badly need the job.”

SAD leader and Mayor Balwant Rai Nath said the state government had totally failed in providing employment to the youth in the state, due to which they are left with no option but to go for menial jobs after getting such high educational degrees.

District courts staff had a tough time in managing the huge rush of applicants and there was chaos where the applicants were waiting for their turn.

On first day

• Youths with master’s, graduation and diploma degrees have also applied for the peon’s job for which the minimum qualification is middle school education with mandatory Punjabi subject. The job carries a monthly salary of about Rs 4,900 to Rs 10,680. 
• On the first day of the four-day recruitment process, the applicants whose names start from alphabet A to G were called for interview.