NGO ad to recruit general candidates for sweeper post prompts protests

An NGO run by St Xavier?s Non-formal Education Society here ran into controversy after its advertisement said General category candidates will be preferred for job as sanitation workers in an attempt towards social equality through inclusiveness and give impetus to Swachh Bharat campaign.
In a recruitment advertisement for sweepers issued in April, director Prasad Chako of NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) in an additional clause mentioned that preference will be given to applicants belonging to Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaniya, Patel, Jain, Saiyad, Pathan, Syrian Christian, and Parsi communities.
The premises of the NGO, situated at St Xavier?s College here, had been ?gheraoed? for the last two days by people claiming affiliation to little-known outfits like Rajput Shaurya Foudation, Yuva Shakti Sangathan, and a Muslim outfit Sunni Avami Forum.
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