Thousands of jobless educated youth holding degrees of B Ed and M Ed desperate for the contractual job of sanitation employee in urban local bodies of Deoria district created ruckus as the local post office refused to accept their job applications.
The applicants include qualified candidates who have degrees of B Ed and M Ed. The minimum qualification for the job is 8th pass.
In Amroha district candidates holding doctorate, MBA and engineering graduates have applied for the post of sanitation employee.
In Deoria district, the local municipal body had advertised for 345 posts of Safai karamchari. The municipality had delegated the job of selling application form and accepting the application to the local post office. So far over 10,000 applications have been deposited in post office against 345 vacancies. On Sunday the post office closed the window for depositing the application forms. This infuriated the candidates and they protested and blocked the traffic on the main street of Deoria city demanding the opening of window and their applications forms be deposited. The situation was soon brought under control after the intervention of the police.
In Amroha municipal body 114 sanitation employees are to be recruited. So far over 7,000 applications have been received by the municipal body. Out of the total applicants over 100 hold doctorate, MBA, B Tech and diploma in engineering.
This is for the second time in less than 6 months in UP, that such a large numbers of jobless youth have applied for the class four jobs. In September last the secretariat administration department had advertised for 368 vacancies of peons in state secretariat and as many as 23 lakh jobless youth had applied for the job. The applicants included 255 Ph D holders and over 2 lakh graduate engineers and other holding graduate and post graduate degrees.