Patanjali currently employes 15,000 people but sees a massive recruitment drive underway with numerous projects planned in India over the near future.
Ahmedabad: Touts have latched on to the Patanjali bandwagon, promising jobs to gullible candidates and conning them, a Patanjali representative said.
With founder Baba Ramdev setting a target for Patanjali Ayurved Ltd to become a Rs 1 lakh cr entity or 10 times its current size (2016-17) in five years and create a workpool of 5 lakh employees and involve another 5 crore families indirectly in Patanjali fold India during the period, touts have begun running employment rackets to con gullible employees across New Delhi, NCR and Mumbai, spokesperson of Baba Ramdev SK Tijarawalatold ET.
"We do not outsource recruitments to anyone," he asserted after about 10 complaints of people being fleeced by touts under the pretext of jobs at Patanjali came to light.
"Instances of touts fooling prospective candidates under the pretext of employment opportunities at Patanjali Ayurved have come to light and we have alerted the cops and have issued statements warning people of possible scams," Tijarawala said. He told ET that the company founded by the yoga teacher got alerted through the Patanjali Chikitsalay where people who got duped, called for help.
"Victims claimed that they read classified advertisements in local newspapers that promised jobs in Patanjali. Although the same advertisements never mentioned any office address, victims would connect with the touts through the phone numbers provided in the advertisements and would even hand over registration fee of Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 hoping to get employed," he said.
Tijarawala said recruitments for marketing, sales or for contractual projects in the company are carried out centrally for all offices and plants at its headquarter Haridwar and places where we have facilities or (potential) work. "The registration process is online and Patanjali does not solicit any money whatsoever from any candidates at any stage of the recruitment process," he said.