Doctorates, MBAS among 10L hopefuls for 9,000 positions
OBSERVERS SAY
THE HIGH NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS IS AN INDICATION OF RAMPANT UNEMPLOYMENT IN MP
BHOPAL: More than 10 lakh people, including engineers and doctorate degree holders, have applied for about 9,200 Madhya Pradesh lower level revenue official posts, which has caught the MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) officials off guard.
The number of applications indicates that every 70th person in the state applied for the job of maintaining revenue land records, which observers believed was an indication of rampant unemployment in MP.
Although a candidate just needs to be a graduate to sit for the exam, MPPEB officials said about one-third of the applicants for the lowest job in revenue department possessed Phds, post-graduate degrees in arts, science and technical education.
Sources in the MPPEB, which conducts the test for the Patwari posts, said close to 1.5 lakh candidates had engineering degrees, 1 lakh were MBA graduates and about 50,000 held post-graduate degrees in arts and science.
“We really didn’t expect such a big number (of applications),” MPPEB examination controller AKS Bhadoria told Hindustan Times and added “we were expecting about 6 lakh candidates against these posts”.
The exam is scheduled to be conducted at 16 district headquarters in the state from December 9 to 31 in two shifts every day. The total number of posts advertised was 9,235 for which 10.20 lakh candidates have filled the application forms.
Although MPPEB authorities admit that they didn’t expect 10 lakh applications, they said the board was equipped to take care of the situation.
“The task is challenging but we recently successfully held exam for the sub-inspector and constable posts, for which too a number of candidates had applied”.
The last time the state held exams for patwari jobs was in 2012 and at that time, passing higher secondary was set as the eligibility criteria.
RTI activist Akshya Hunka, who recently organised a seminar for patwari job aspirants from economically weaker section, said if passing intermediate exams was an eligibility criterion this time too then at least 25 lakhs people would have applied for the post given the scale of unemployment in the state.
Hunka said that the exam is being conducted against the backdrop of growing resentment among the people of the state, especially farmers, over pending job applications with the revenue department. As a result, the state government has already announced a special drive to dispose of more than 15 lakh pending application received in the past four months. LATEHAR: A local court in Jharkhand sentenced two youths to 20-year of rigorous imprisonment, holding them guilty of gang raping a constable four years ago.
The convicted duo — Matik Oraon and Katua Oraon — and three others also looted cash, valuables and mobiles from the victim, her relatives and other passengers passing through national highway 75 in August 2013.
The court of Latehar principal district and sessions judge Vishnukant Sahay has also imposed a fine of ~10,000 each on the duo.
The Jharkhand police constable was travelling in an ambulance with her relatives on the intervening night of August 21 and 22, when a group of robbers waylaid them near Jagaldaga under the Chandwa police station limits. They forcibly took the constable behind the bushes and took turns to rape her.
The woman, widow of a slain district armed police jawan, had just completed her police training after being appointed as constable on compassionate grounds when the incident took place.
The incident hit national headlines and the Jharkhand police came under scathing criticismThe then director general of police visited the crime scene to investigate the matter.
Besides the two convict, the court declared two of their accomplices, Heeralal Oraon and Mukesh Oraon, guilty of committing robbery. The court awarded 10-year imprisonment under section 395 (dacoity) and seven-year rigorous imprisonment under section 397 (robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), besides imposing a penalty of ~5,000 each.
A minor, who was also involved in robbery, is being tried separately by a juvenile court.