Notice issued to private firm in Gujarat for chaos at job interview site
Bharuch (PTI): A notice has been issued to a private firm days after nearly 800 persons turned up for walk-in interviews organised by it for 40 vacancies, triggering chaos at the venue in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, an official said on Saturday.
Videos of a massive queue, marked by pushing and shoving as aspirants tried to get a toehold on a ramp leading to the entrance of a hotel where the interviews were being held, had gone viral on Thursday on social media.
On July 2, the company at Jhagadia conducted a recruitment drive at a hotel in Ankleshwar in the district where hundreds of aspirants turned up for 40 vacancies, District Employment Officer Sanjay Gohil said.
“After the video went viral, we learnt about the incident and talked to the plant manager and HR managers of the company and carried out an inspection of the plant on July 12,” he said.
The company had not informed the employment office in advance regarding the notified vacancies, he said.
“We checked the record and issued notice to the company. The district administration needs to be informed in advance so that such a situation does not arise,” Gohil said.
The stampede-like situation occurred due to mismanagement at the recruitment drive venue which caused the collapse of the railing of the ramp, leading to several job-seekers falling off.
The incident, which took place on Tuesday, triggered a verbal duel between the opposition Congress and the ruling BJP.
While the Congress said it had exposed the ‘Gujarat Model’ (of development the ruling party talks about), the BJP said the former was trying to defame the state through the video.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared the video on microblogging platform X.
“The ‘disease of unemployment’ has taken the form of an epidemic in India, and BJP-ruled states have become the ‘epicentre’ of this disease. The ‘future of India’ jostling in queues for a common job is the reality of Narendra Modi’s ‘Amritkal’,” Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.
As per the police, the company had arranged walk-in interviews for nearly 40 vacancies in five different roles.
The company booked a hall in a hotel in Ankleshwar expecting some 150 candidates. However, 800 turned up and company officials had to shut the door of the interview hall to control the crowd, which led to the situation shown in the video, Bharuch Superintendent of Police Mayur Chavda had said on Thursday.
No one was injured in the melee and no complaint had come to the police in this regard, Chavda added.
Hitting back at Congress, the BJP said on X, “Efforts to defame Gujarat are being made through a viral video from Ankleshwar. The advertisement for the walk-in interview clearly states they require experienced candidates. This implies those attending the interview are already employed elsewhere. Therefore, the notion of these individuals being unemployed is baseless.”
Spreading negativity about Gujarat was a tactic of the Congress, the BJP added.
As per the advertisement, the company was to fill vacancies of shift in-charge, plant operator, supervisor-CDS, fitter-mechanical and executive-ETP at its new plant in the Jhagadia industrial area.
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Ready to face no-confidence motion, says Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah
Hassan (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that the Congress government led by him was ready to face the no-confidence motion if moved by the opposition during the legislature session from December 8.
With Deputy CM D K Shivakumar by his side, he reiterated that they would both abide by the high command's decision on the leadership issue.
"Let them (opposition) bring in a no-confidence motion or adjournment motion or any other motion. We are ready to face it. Ours is an open book, transparent government. We are ready to face anything," Siddaramaiah said in response to a question.
However, BJP state President B Y Vijayendra and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly R Ashoka, clarified that the party, along with the JD(S) has not discussed or decided anything so far regarding moving a no-confidence motion against the government.
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The winter session of the Karnataka legislature will begin in Belagavi, bordering Maharashtra, on December 8 and will go on till 19th of this month.
Not wanting to react to a question on the leadership issue, the CM said the Congress high command is very strong.
"D K Shivakumar and I will be committed to whatever the high command decides," he said.
Earlier in the day in Bengaluru, Shivakumar accompanied AICC Mallikarjun Kharge till airport from Vidhana Soudha, after paying tributes to B R Ambedkar on his 69th death anniversary, which had led to some speculation about possible discussion between the two on the leadership issue.
The power tussle within the ruling party had intensified amid speculation about a change in chief minister in the state, after the Congress government reached the halfway mark of its five-year term on November 20.
However, both the CM and Deputy CM had recently held breakfast meetings at each others residences, on the instructions of the high command, which is seen as a move to pause the leadership tussle between the two and to signal Siddaramaiah's continuation as the CM for the time being, especially ahead of the Belagavi legislature session.
