Coimbatore; 29 Nov 2019 (UMM): About 7000 engineers, graduates and diploma-holders have applied for 549 vacancies of grade-1 sanitary workers in the city Corporation.
According to a Hindustan Times report Nov 28, the corporation had called for applications and 7,000 applicants appeared for the three-day interview and verification of certificates which began on Wednesday, official sources said.
It was found that most of the 70 per cent of the candidates who completed SSLC were engineers, post- graduates, graduates and diploma-holders, official sources said.
In some cases, the applicants were already employed in private firms, but the government job attracted them because the starting salary is Rs 15,700.
Many of the applicants could not find jobs suitable to their qualifications and had taken other employment to support their family with Rs 6,000-7,000 as salary in private firms for 12 hours work with no job security, they said.
On the other hand, sanitary workers job fetches a salary of nearly Rs 20,000 with the work timings of three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening, which also provides them an option of doing other petty works during leisure, reported Hindustan Times.
The Corporation now has 2,000 permanent and 500 contract sanitary workers in its rolls.
