In India's Uttar Pradesh, the state government say they have been
overwhelmed after receiving 2.3 million applications for 368 low-level
government jobs. The qualifications was having primary school qualifications
and being able to ride a bicycle. But tens of thousands of graduates,
post-graduates and others with doctorate degrees applied (255 PhD holders and
152,000 graduates.) . It will take at least four years to complete even if
there are 10 boards interviewing 200 candidates a day, for 25 days a month.
In Uttar Pradesh tens of millions are out of work. The
state, with a population of 215 million, is expected to have 13.2 million
unemployed young people by 2017.
Earlier this year, several people were injured in a stampede
when thousands turned up to join the Indian army in the southern city of
Visakhapatnam. In 2010, one man was killed and 11 others were injured in the
crush when more than 10,000 candidates gathered to join the police in Mumbai. And
in 1999, the government in West Bengal state was deluged with responses when
they advertised 281 jobs and received nearly one million applications.
The successful candidates will receive a monthly salary of
16,000 rupees ($240; £156).
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