Patna, Feb. 13 -- Despite jobs being one of the core agendas in the run up to the Assembly elections in Bihar last year with the ruling NDA announcing to create 19 lakh jobs for the youth of the state, the situation on the ground remains largely unchanged. The large number of posts for engineers lying vacnt in different government departments only substantiate this fact.

The IANS has obtained specific information about 64 per cent posts of engineers lying vacant in various government departments.

According to a top official, of the total of 6,322 posts of assistant engineers, executive engineers, superintending engineers and chief engineers in different departments like road construction, rural development, public health, water resour...