About 1.2 lakh candidates have come for 994 drivers’ posts at the Motor Transport Department of the police, the home department and Mumbai police

On an average nearly 5,000 candidates are pouring into the city on daily basis. Also there is a simultaneous recruitment drive on for the post of around 6,000 male and female constables

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The recruitment for Motor Transport Department and GRP level constables are done across the city at various centers like in Marol, Naigaon, Pant Nagar, and Kalina. These began on January 30

Candidates arrive from across the state like Satara, Nashik, Nagar, Malegaon, Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Beed, Aurangabad, Dhule, Latur, Ahmedabad, Jalna, Sangli, Pune, etc. Those who don’t have relatives in the city are forced to sleep on the footpath, roads, under trees, even on dividers

The Mumbai police claim that they have given a contract to the concerned BMC authority to arrange for tents and mobile toilets for the candidates, but mid-day found that some of these toilets are locked