For lack of jobs, more than 50,000 graduates, 28,000 post-graduates and
3,700 PhD holders have applied for 62 posts of messengers in UP's police
department. The post of messenger requires just passing Class V & the
ability to ride a bicycle. The full-time government post has a starting pay
of Rs 20,000 per month.
In Tamil Nadu, 992 PhD holders and 23,000 MPhil holders were among 2 million
applicants to a village-level clerk job test held in February 2018. The
minimum requirement was passing Class X.
In West Bengal, 70 peon posts in April 2018 attracted more than 11,000
applicants, several of them with PhD, MSc, MTech, BTech and BSc degrees. The
minimum requirement was Class 8 and the pay is Rs 15,000 per month.
Indian Railways, the single largest employer in the country, announced
100,000 vacancies earlier this year. More than 20 million applied for them,
including thousands of PhDs.
INDIAN DEGREES
- PhDs, MPhils etc [names all taken from UK academies] may be applying for
lowly jobs but what of the quality of the degrees awarded? Can they be
compared with UK or East Asia? And how original are the theses? Is there
more than a whiff of plagiarism in some?
INDIAN EXPRESS.COM
The latest arrests represent a new and extremely dangerous phase in the
steady erosion of civil liberties and fundamental rights.
ARUNDATI ROY:
- We are living in dangerous times. Minorities (and Dalits) can be killed
at random. In India today, to belong to a minority is a crime. There will be
ruthless attempts to divert attention from the loss of Modi's popularity. To
defend the poor is to plot to overthrow Modi's government.
PRASHANT BHUSHAN (Public interest lawyer & activist)
- The rupee has collapsed; exchequer looted, HAL downgraded and Ambani given
bounty. All by Modi alone. This fascist onslaught on dissent is more
dangerous than the Emergency of 1975.
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Eddie
