The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), Jorhat district committee on Thursday staged a demonstration under its satyagraha programme at Oil India Limited’s Pumping Station 3 at Charigaon here in protest against the national oil company’s recruitment policy in which eligible youths of Jorhat were excluded from applying in Grade III posts of the oil major.

AASU activists, holding placards and shouting slogans, condemned the OIL’s policy where only unemployed youths of those districts where OIL had areas of operation were eligible to apply.

In this regard, OIL had advertised for filling up posts of 535 vacant grade III posts in its website on August 24 wherein it was mentioned that only eligible youths of Charaideo, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar districts of Assam and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh could apply.