Clamour for govt jobs marked by court cases, cheating and caste equations

The pan-India fascination about central govt jobs is the context of PM Modi's new plan to recruit one million staffers within less than two years

There is a simple metric to understand the fascination for government jobs in India. Of all the tribunals established by the Centre, the largest spread across India is of the Central Administrative Tribunal. With 40 benches, the tribunal decides on disputes and complaints about recruitment to government offices and conditions of service, once the employees are in. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has more benches, at 67, but they are more limited in their geographic spread. 

Fascination with recruitment to government jobs is a pan-India phenomenon, albeit with some regional variations. This is the context of the plan to recruit