Demanding the Congress government to increase the Group II vacancies by 2,000 and Group III posts by 3,000, scores of Group jobs’ aspirants and unemployed youth staged a huge protest at Dharna Chowk here on Thursday.

The protesters who reached the venue from across the State demanded the State government to consider selection of candidates for the Group-I Main exam in 1:100 ratio instead of 1:50.

Since the Group-I notification was issued after a decade gap, the aspirants wanted the government to provide them a fair chance in the recruitment to 563 Group-I posts.