7,000 engineers, graduates apply for sanitary worker posts | Photo Credit: Thinkstock

With an increasing rate of job crunch for qualified candidates in the nation, around 7000 graduates, diploma holders and engineers have applied sanitary workers post in Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation. The notification was released by Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation a few months back to fill up 549 grade-1 sanitary workers post in the organization.

The three-day interview was conducted by the Corporation some days back and those who have qualified in it were called for the document verification process held on Wednesday. On verification, it was found that close to 70 percent of the candidates who have appeared for the interview round were either engineers, postgraduates, graduates or diploma holders.

Some applicants who have applied for the job were already working in private firms, some were working as sanitary workers for the last 10 years on a contractual basis. Graduate applicants working for 12 hours for a meager salary of Rs 6000-7000 in any private firm had also applied for the job.

When ANI asked Arun Kumar, a Mechatronics Engineer, who applied for the post, he said, “I completed my engineering but I could not get a job in my field. I want a job now. So, I am here. At-least 13 friends from the mechanical engineering department have applied.”

The salary of grade-1 sanitary workers post is Rs 20000/- per month and the work timing is three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. As for now, the corporation has 2,000 permanent and 500 contract sanitary workers in its rolls.