India, Aug. 1 -- Hundreds of civil engineering graduates and competitive exam aspirants gathered outside the Pune district collector's office on Thursday to protest, demanding the immediate recruitment of thousands of vacant posts in the water resources and water conservation departments.

The last Junior Engineer (JE) recruitment took place in 2019, and while fresh recruitment was approved in April 2023, no advertisement has been released yet, they claimed.

According to the students, over 2,200 junior engineer posts and more than 2,400 civil engineering assistant posts are currently lying vacant in the water resources department. They also pointed out that not a single recruitment has been conducted for civil engineering assistants in t...