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Double M.A.,
M.Phil applies for peon's job but with little hope
WSN Network
BATHINDA: This
news item will sadden your heart just as it saddened ours when we
are writing it, but frankly, is it even possible for us to
understand the satte of the mind of a young girl who has a degree in
MA (Punjabi), a dgree in MA (Economics) and an M.Phil to boot but
has applied for the job of a peon, with not much hope of getting it?
Welcome to real
Punjab. With job options ever so little and unemployment rising
sharply, educated Punjabis are being forced to either work much
beneath their qualifications, or migrate to far off places.
More than 1,200
aspirants, including 60 girls, turned up for interviews for a mere
eight posts of peon in the district courts here last Wednesday.
On Thursday,
around 900 applicants came in for four posts of "piada" (process
server, who delivers summons) at the courts.
The various
panels that interviewed them found the candidates included two LLBs,
one MBA, one M.Phil, besides a horde of postgraduates and graduates.
"I have no other
option due to poverty, which forces me to opt for a Class IV job
too," localmedia quoted a girl from Kotshamir village on the verge
of tears. She is an MA in Punjabi and economics, and has also done
her M.Phil.
The
qualification of the applicants vying for the peon's job, which
needed only "middle pass" (Class 8), was no less.
There were youth
holding degrees of M.Sc, MA, B.Ed, B.Com and PGDCA diplomas from
recognised universities.
And many of them
had high scores too! The qualifying age was 18 to 35.
But seeing the
long queues, a large number of candidates were disheartened even
before the interviews for peons, which were conducted by District
and Sessions Judge Kuldeep Singh and Additional Sessions Judge S.K.
Sachdeva. Nearly all applicants were interviewed, though it was more
a check of the documents.
The results
would be declared later.
Out of the eight
post, three are reserved for SC, BC and sports candidates.
To be able to
queue up early for the interviews, many of the applicants from
far-off places had arrived the previous evening, spending the cold
night in the open around the court complex.
16
December 2009
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