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“It was a long wait since officials asked us to stand up in queue at around 8 am on Saturday. Our turn came a bit late at 12.30 pm. We tired as we were sweating profusely in the scorching sun and the city weather was different from ours in Vizianagaram,” says G Sai, an aspirant for airman in Indian Air Force.
Vijayawada: “It was a long wait since officials asked us to stand up in queue at around 8 am on Saturday. Our turn came a bit late at 12.30 pm. We tired as we were sweating profusely in the scorching sun and the city weather was different from ours in Vizianagaram,” says G Sai, an aspirant for airman in Indian Air Force.
Sai was not alone, but many others were given a raw deal as they cannot run 1.6 km distance in five minutes and forty seconds. “Instead of 300 candidates as one batch, it would have been better had it been a batch for every 100 candidates,” opined K Srinivasa Rao from Visakhapatnam.
For the first time, airmen recruitment rally was held in the city for which candidates from Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Nellore and Union Territory of Yanam attended. Those who passed Intermediate were eligible to participate in recruitment drive. The candidates were tested in chin-up, push up, bent-knee sit up and other physical fitness tests.
Those who passed in running test were allowed to take written test which was held in the afternoon session. Successful candidates in written test will get a chance to attend adaptability test and dynamic factor test on Sunday. Next batch of candidates from Krishna, East Godavari, West Godavari and Guntur will attend the physical fitness and written test on Monday.
For those who failed in any of these tests, it was a feeling of disappointment. A majority of the candidates wanted job to support their poor families. They gathered at the Indira Gandhi Stadium on Friday night itself.
They brought their own food. Others had dinner in city hotels. They tried to sleep in the new place (stadium) exposed to mosquitoes and cold weather during the night. They were forced to wake up early in the morning at 4 am. Since then, they were prepared to stand in the queues to begin running.
S Pawan (17) of Nellore was sad because he failed in physical fitness test. “My father is a tenant farmer and lone bread winner. It was a painful experience for me to convince my parents that I failed the exam,” he said.
N Damodar (19) of Vizianagaram had spent about Rs 1,000 towards tickets for transportation and food expenses. He was in degree final year. He said, “I came with some of my friends. A few of them also failed the exam. Now convincing my parents was not the issue. It was a feeling of haunting failure makes me nervous. After all, I came here hoping to get the job in Air Force.”
By Noor Shaik
