Indians with MBAs compete for jobs as street sweepers as unemployment bites…

Thousands of highly educated Indians — many with business or engineering degrees interviewed for a handful of menial Government jobs in central Madhya Pradesh State at the weekend, amid a worsening pandemic crisis in the country.

 

More than 11,000 hopefuls gathered outside Gwalior District Court to compete for 15 positions as security guards, drivers, street sweepers and office helpers.

The minimum level of education required for the positions was high school level.

But officials were shocked by graduates and postgraduates crowding outside the court complex to appear for the preliminary interview for the vacancies, which offered monthly salaries of between 5,000 rupees ($66) and 10,000 rupees ($122).

Jitendra Maurya, a Law Graduate, said he had applied to become a driver. “I am also preparing for the Judge’s exam but the situation is such that sometimes there is no money to buy books,” he told a local news channel.