Greater than 200 candidates, who’re awaiting their appointments to posts of engineer on the water assets and the general public works departments even eight months after the Maharashtra Public Service Fee introduced the outcomes, started a two-day chain starvation strike at Azad Maidan on Wednesday.
Regardless of fulfilling all the necessities, together with doc verification, character verification and medical check, the state authorities is but to concern them appointment letters, the agitators mentioned, including the delay has precipitated monetary and psychological misery to them.
Amol Jadhav, one of many candidates, mentioned, “We’re demanding fast appointments. The federal government just isn’t being attentive to our calls for as a result of which some candidates are going through psychological trauma. Therefore, we’re pressured to stage the chain starvation strike.”
The Maharashtra authorities had on March 18, 2020, launched an commercial for 217 Group A and Group B (gazetted) posts within the public works division and the water assets division. After conducting preliminary and mains in March and December 2021 respectively, the ultimate outcomes had been declared on August 12, 2022.
The delay has raised questions in regards to the authorities’s dedication to creating jobs and offering alternatives to the youth, Ketan Partani, one other candidate, mentioned. “This has precipitated frustration and disappointment. We invested our effort and time in making ready for the examination.”
Jadhav mentioned the candidates are hoping the federal government will take cognisance of their state of affairs and take needed motion. “The federal government’s failure to behave may trigger extra hurt to the candidates’ psychological and monetary well-being and would even have long-term implications for the federal government’s credibility and dedication to job creation.”
In 2019, a candidate from the identical cadre had died by suicide as he was unable to take the stress attributable to the delay in appointment, a protester mentioned.