A screengrab of thousands of people gathered at the Air India Authority, Mumbai for a walk-in job interview.
Credit: X/@AamAadmiParty
After the Air India Airport Services Ltd. in Mumbai opened walk-in interviews of a job post for loader, thousands of young people on Wednesday, gathered in Kalina area for the opportunity.
The incident took place on Tuesday morning and the situation was later brought under control, an official from Sahar police station said.
With their applications and documents in hand, the jobseekers assembled at gate no. 5 near the Sahar cargo complex after they came to know about the vacancy for the loader's post at the airport, he said.
As the situation went out of hand, the applicants were asked to submit their resumes, applications and other documents and then leave the spot.
Later, the airport authorities decided to call 200 applicants for interview, the official said.
"No untoward incident was reported, and the situation was later brought under control," the official said.
The Rajya Sabha MP and Deputy Leader of Shiv Sena (UBT) Priyanka Chaturvedi taking to X took a dig at the government and said, "The country has been made jobless with unemployment figures reaching as high as 9.2 per cent thanks to Vishwagurunomics. This is a sad and heartbreaking situation & these visuals from Mumbai, makes it more so."
Posting a video on X, AAP reacted and said, "Modi's lie on employment exposed. Modi spreads the lie of giving employment to crores of people on every platform, but this crowd is exposing his lies to the unemployed youth themselves."
"Unemployment is at its peak in the country. Crores of youth are roaming the streets empty handed but the Prime Minister of the country is not ready to do anything."
Speaking on the stampede-like situation which occurred for Air India walk-in interview, Maharashtra LoP Vijay Wadettiwar said that 600 vacancies opened up in Kalina airport, where over 20,000 to 25,000 candidates appeared.
He said, "Shows that the unemployment situation in the country is severe. The youth has taken to the roads in search of jobs. The government is saying that they have created jobs and brought investment...where are the jobs? This all is happening due to the (Maharashtra) government's wrong schemes. No investments are coming in the state."
A similar incident was reported in Gujarat's Bharuch district earlier this month when a stampede-like situation was witnessed after about 800 people turned up for walk-in interviews held by a firm for 40 vacancies in Ankleshwar.
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 social media.
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