Thousands throng AMC health office for interviews amid lockdown

Young men and women gathered outside the Arogya Bhawan, the building of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s health department to attend the walk-in-interview for the posts of medical officers and para-medical staff.

Ahmedabad:Two days after Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's Urban Health Society issued advertisements for contract-based recruitments via social media, hundreds of people gathered outside Arogya Bhavan for the interview despite nationwide lockdown.

Violating the social distancing guidelines put forward by the centre in order to contain the spread of COVID-19, young men and women gathered outside the building in large numbers to attend the walk-in-interview.

Most of them were applicants who had come to attend the walk-in interviews for the posts of medical officers and para-medical staff.

Both freshers and experienced candidates had reached the venue since 6 am for interviews scheduled at 10.30 am, despite the lockdown.

Although the civic body’s health department had passed instructions to practise social distancing during the interview process but it not observed by the candidates.