Engineers, graduates apply for peon posts in Panipat Court

Haryana: As many as 27,671 candidates, including women and men, applied for the 13 positions of peon in the Panipat district court on Friday (February 19). What is bizarre about the people applying for the posts is that all of them are highly qualified individuals with college degrees, ranging from Bachelors and Masters. Some of the candidates also have civil engineering and IT backgrounds.

“The applicants, including women, men and youngsters, reached the venue for the interview. Due to the high turnout, the court divided the interviews into categories and over 12,000 applicants were interviewed today,” Anil Kumar, one of the authorities at the district court said.

One of the applicants, Himanshu, who was a science student said, “The turnout for the position is so huge and only 13 post are available.”

During an election rally at Agra during the election campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi had promised one crore jobs every year. But a news report referring to an unapproved NSSO periodic labor force survey (PLFS) has revealed that India’s unemployment rate has touched 6.1 percent, which is the highest it has been since 1972-73. The report further said that unemployment was higher in urban areas, at 7.8 percent, as compared to 5.3 percent in rural areas of the country.

Going by the pre-poll promise of one crore jobs per year by PM Modi, around 8.4 lakh jobs should have been created every month. The updated EPFO payroll data released in January 2019 shows a monthly average of 4.90 lakh only. The earlier figure declared that 6.10 lakh new jobs were created, still short of the promised one crore jobs every year.