News Engineers and PHD apply for peon posts

Technoglitch

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the Uttar Pradesh state government reportedly sought applications for 368 posts of peon in the state secretariat in Lucknow. In a surprise response, over 23 lakh applicants, which is half of Lucknow's population, sent in their resumes for the post.

Out of these 23 lakh applicants, over 1.5 lakh are B Tech, BSc and BCom graduates, 25 thousand are Masters in Science, Commerce and Arts. 255 PhDs are also in the queue for a job as peon in the secretariat.

The advertisement released by the government had only two criteria; a) Applicant should be have passed 5th standard and b) Applicant must know how to ride a bicycle.
Uttar Pradesh: Engineers and PhDs among 23 lakh applicants for 368 peon positions | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
 
IndianMascot

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In future even IIMs will start applying for such job because even a Peon side income is much than getting recruited as AGM in any company.
 
Technoglitch

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The lure of a government job, howsoever small, is not diminishing anytime soon. In Uttar Pradesh, advertisement for 368 openings for peons in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Secretariat has attracted 23 lakh applications. The candidates include those having passed Class V – the minimum qualification required – to those having completed their PhD. In between there are graduates, postgraduates, engineers, MBAs and others.

The advertisement for these vacancies was published on 10 August in newspapers and online. All applications had to be filed online, the last date for which expired on 14 September. It mentioned that there were 368 posts of anusevaks (peons) and farrash (janitors or floor cleaners) in the Secretariat Services. These Group D posts included 218 for the general category, 76 posts for SC category, 5 for ST category and 69 for Others Backward Class category.

But perhaps the most attractive part was the pay scale. The scale was Rs 5200 to Rs 20,200 with Grade Pay Rs 1800, with the minimum take-home being in the range of Rs 15,000 per month.

Prabhat Mittal, Secretary (Secretariat Administration), has said that he was amazed at the number of applications. The selection process, which required only interview, would take about four years if the interviews were conducted at the rate of 40 per day in one selection board, six days a week for seven hours per working day. Obviously, at least 25 selection boards will have to be constituted to complete the exercise in less than two years.

The applicants include 255 PhD holders, 1,52,730 engineering and technical degree holders, 24,969 postgraduates, 7,500 ordinary graduates, 1,87,2660 having passed class XII to X, 2,16,763 having passed class IX to VI and 53,426 having passed class V only.

The vacancies for 260 similar posts had been advertised last in 2006, when about 1 lakh persons had applied. The army of unemployed in the age group of 15-35 in Uttar Pradesh is set to touch the 1-crore number by 2017, as mentioned in a report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). These will be in addition to the backlog of around 32 lakh unemployed, who are already in the queue awaiting their chance.

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