CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress official spokesman Mr. Sukhpal Singh Khaira has alleged that inappropriate arrangements, callous attitude and 'loot' of innocent unemployed youth aspiring to appear for 461 posts of Punjab Food Inspectors (Category B), exposes the monster of unemployment. 

The failure of more than 74,000 aspirants to appear for the Punjab Food Inspectors exam has brought to fore the dangerous and alarming proportions that unemployment has reached in the state. As we are aware, 461 posts of Food Inspectors had been advertised by the SAD-BJP govt. For which more than 3.21 lac aspirants had applied. The govt. fleecing its own unemployed youth have charged Rs. 800 as registration fees per candidate, which is non refundable. By doing so the govt. has collected approx. Rs.25 crore from these needy unemployed youth. 

Further more behaving in a complete insensitive manner the govt. fixed the venue of all 11 examination centres inChandigarh, forcing poor youth to travel from far ends of the state like Abohar, Tarn Taran, Pathankot, Amritsar etc. It has been reported that 1.86 lac aspirants thronged the city ofChandigarhthat choked the traffic and in the process 74000 applicants failed to reach the examination venues. It is also pertinent to note, that the monster of unemployed inPunjabis so huge that for every one post of a Food Inspector more than 700 unemployed youth have applied.

The level of unemployment inPunjabis of such high magnitude, that if for only 461 posts more than 3.21 lac graduate youths had applied, one can imagine the quantum of unemployment of the semi literate or illiterate youth in the state. Similarly, more than 3 lac youth have applied for 500 posts of clerks in Cooperative department and another 65000 aspirants have applied for the 70 posts of managers in the Cooperative Bank. Failing to learn any lesson, all these lacs of applicants have again been called toChandigarhfor their exams.