Pachpute, giving a reply on why tribal girls trained for jobs as airhostesses did not get jobs, had said on Thursday that they failed as they were not fluent in English and did not meet the professional and physical requirements for the job.
Valvi, apologising for Pachpute’s remarks, said the scheme to train tribal girls for airhostess jobs was in line with such a scheme in Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Manipur.
“The government cannot be expected to give them jobs. The scheme was meant to give them training to help them qualify for jobs,” said Valvi.
He added that six of the 100 girls who were trained got jobs, four in Air Deccan, one in Jet Airways and one in Air India. The Indian Express had first reported about tribal girls not getting jobs after completing training. After airlines did not recruit tribal students who passed out of the Air Hostess Academy, Pune, the government scrapped the scheme.
