Candidate pursuing doctorate queues up for peon’s job

A post-graduate pursuing a doctorate degree was among the more than 38,000 candidates, who had applied for the 50 posts of peons at the Law courts in Mysore near here.

Mallappa Geddappa Lambani, a post-graduate in Sociology, who is also pursuing a doctorate, turned up at the Law court premises last week for the interviews, which are going on for the last one month in view of the long list of applicants.

Mallappa, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste, has registered himself for a doctorate degree at Karnatak University in Dharwad. He is shortly due to submit his thesis on “Socio economic conditions of Lambanis in the region and their problems in securing jobs”.

With the list of applicants for the post of peon including hundreds of graduates and even post-graduates, the Government officials wondered whether the interest shown by highly qualified candidates for such menial jobs was due to the craze for Government jobs or on account of unemployment in the society.
Mallappa, who hails from a poor family in Bijapur district, told reporters that he had worked as a temporary lecturer in many colleges in Bijapur, but had failed to secure a permanent job. “As I am unable to meet my ends and support my aged mother, I applied for this job and came for the interview”, Mallappa said