Like other student accommodations in Uttar Pradesh, this hostel at Deendayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University in Gorakhpur is home to a hundred students.
Most of them are here for a few years already, enrolling in courses to live in affordable hostels, in “preparatory” – a euphemism for preparing for government job recruitment exams. Tired of waiting, residents have a suggestion: a calendar for each recruitment, like those for central and state civil services exams.
Harsh Tiwari, 24, who hails from Gorakhpur and is pursuing his LLB from the university, says: “Along with the notification for the recruitment, a complete calendar should be issued, including the date of submission of application, the last date, the date of examination. date, date of interview, date of result, date of joining of selected candidates. ,
Most of the students of the hostel named after Vivekananda are studying law, the biggest worry is the delay in judicial appointments. Abhishek Mishra, 25, and Dharamveer Madhesia, 26, residents of Kushinagar MaharajganjBoth the LLM students say that there has been no recruitment in the judicial sector for almost four years.
While selections are getting delayed due to reasons like leaks, and the recent Covid outbreak, students are also upset over the delay in reimbursement of their fees. “Private college students are reimbursed on priority basis. But most of us are from EWS or SC/ST/OBC families, and our money is stuck. Officials and university officials put the burden on others,” says Tiwari.
District Social Welfare Officer, Vashisht Narayan Singh, who handled these matters, denied this. “The process of fee reimbursement is underway. It has not been delayed,” he said.
The hostel students are mainly from the adjoining districts of Deoria, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Sant Kabirnagar. Many people say that when they or their family voted BJP Last time, party is no longer his first choice.
Sandeep Kasaundhan, a 23-year-old LLB student from Maharajganj district, is angry with all the parties. “Maharajganj is underdeveloped and people are suffering. But, in every election parties bring some Bhojpuri folk singer who sings anything to impress the voters. Candidates never return to meet us after winning,” he says.
Though job shortage is emerging as a major concern, coinciding with the slowdown in the post-Covid economy, the BJP is trying to argue that unemployment is something different. Top party leaders Amit Shah and JP Nadda said: Indian Express In interviews that unemployment figures do not reflect the lack of jobs as much as the desire for government jobs. Samajwadi Party And the BSP has made job promises in its election campaign.
While Tiwari believes that people are also to blame for going by caste and creed to vote, Mishra believes that something has changed. “We laugh at parties and leaders who claim to be against casteism or who say they don’t take decisions on the basis of caste,” he says, if the BJP has voted for the Nishad Party (its vote base is Nishad, or Sailor community), SP has worked closely with SBSP (Vote Base Rajbhar).
Amit Patel says, “Similarly when we read statements of leaders and parties that they are against dynasty, we laugh. We have seen in every party that if you want to join politics or get ticket, then It doesn’t matter which family you belong to.