{"id":53893,"date":"2025-12-17T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/?p=53893"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:24:06","slug":"unemployment-crisis-over-9000-aspirants-vie-for-just-187-home-guard-posts-in-sambalpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/unemployment-crisis-over-9000-aspirants-vie-for-just-187-home-guard-posts-in-sambalpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Crisis: Over 9,000 Aspirants Vie for Just 187 Home Guard Posts in Sambalpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sambalpur: In a glaring reflection of Odisha\u2019s deepening youth unemployment woes, more than 9,000 candidates, including many highly qualified graduates and professionals, turned up for a recruitment exam offering only 187 Home Guardpositions in Sambalpur district.<\/p>\n<p>The examination, conductedby Sambalpur police on Tuesday at the Jamadarpali airstrip, drew an overwhelming crowd despite the modest job requirements\u2014a minimum Class Veducation\u2014and a daily wage of \u20b9612 (approximately \u20b918,360 monthly).<\/p>\n<p>Officials were taken aback by the turnout, noting a significant number of applicants holding degrees in engineering, MBA, MCA, diplomas, ITI certifications, and computer science.<\/p>\n<p>The posts, primarily for supporting police vehicle driving and computer operations across 24 police stations, underscore the acute job scarcity affecting educated youth in Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sambalpur: In a glaring reflection of Odisha\u2019s deepening youth unemployment woes, more than 9,000 candidates, including many highly qualified graduates and professionals, turned up for a recruitment exam offering only 187 Home Guardpositions in Sambalpur district. The examination, conductedby Sambalpur police on Tuesday at the Jamadarpali airstrip, drew an overwhelming crowd despite the modest job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sambalpur-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53895,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions\/53895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}