Rozgar Mela: Take your appointment letter, click a selfie with PM’s picture

Nagpur: “Don’t forget to click a selfie as you go out of the hall, and post it on social media too,” said the compere. Diligently, each of the fresh recruits who had got government jobs posed with a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and got a picture clicked for their social media posts.
They were taking part at the rozgar mela event held across the country, in which candidates getting jobs in government organizations were handed over appointment letters. Officials from some of the nationalised banks told TOI that the organizations were also mandated to click pictures and post them on the Public App.
At Nagpur, 241 individuals who got jobs in public sector banks, VNIT, AIIMS, railways etc were handed over their letters. Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari was the chief guest for the function. Before Gadkari handed over the letters to five of the candidates and left, Modi addressed the candidates online.
Hitting out at the opposition, Gadkari said the process of recruitment in government has become much faster and transparent, and corruption has been weeded out. “Earlier, the candidates had to go through a long wait to get their results. Gone are those days,” said Modi in his speech.
A number of bank employees TOI spoke to had joined around a month ago and even got their first salaries. They were formally handed over the appointment letters on Tuesday. The folder carrying the letter had the name of Narendra Modi in bold letters. Each one was lined up to speak before the camera. As they spoke, they were reminded not to end without thanking the prime minister.
Among the candidates were two doctors who had got jobs in AIIMS. One came from another hospital while the other had a job at a different position earlier in AIIMS itself. The process happened fast, they said.
Three of the candidates called to speak during the function thanked the prime minister in person. “I had only heard, but now I have also experienced that Modi hai to mumkin hai,” said one of them.
The bank candidates also said that the recruitment process in the sector was always prompt though the time has reduced in railways and other government departments.
Among the second largest were recruits in the railways. They had filled the forms in 2019, and exams were held last year. The exams were delayed due to Covid, they said.