Jamshedpur, July 9: People in search of jobs are still coming to Jamshedpur looking for jobs, having been hearing for long that the city was a “lucrative” hunting ground as far as good jobs were concerned.

But recently, most of them have been returning to their home towns, disillusioned with the response here.

This is in sharp contrast to what the scene was like earlier, when big corporate houses and companies had been turning up to recruit people in large numbers, who turned up for interviews not just from the city, but from different parts of the state, too.

This recent trend is being attributed to the non setting up of industries in this part of the state, as against the earlier interest shown by big corporate houses to set up base here.

Confirming this trend are a host of city-based placement cells, which have been approached by candidates for relocation to bigger places, especially Delhi and Mumbai.

“People who had come here with hopes of getting employment in the city, have been disillusioned with the change in the working conditions here,” said Deepak Singh, the director of Ma Foi Management Consultants, a leading placement agency in the city.

Quite a few people had expressed their concern over the increasing instability of jobs here in the city.

With the setting up of shops of leading private players in the insurance and finance sector, quite a high number of people had shifted base with the proposed boom in the offing, but things did not work out in the proposed direction.

“It is actually very disappointing, with a boom at almost every place as concerns the job market. The dwindling resources are a cause of concern,” said Akansha Verma, an employee working with a leading private insurance player who now wants to shift base to Delhi.

Attributing it to the ever growing employment opportunities available outside the state, with a proportionate coming down of opportunities here, people are actually opting to go back to the place from where they had come down to touch base in the steel city.

“We have got as many as six applications from people willing to be relocated in Delhi and even Mumbai, places to which they originally belong,” added Singh, who considers the apathy of the government to be one of the responsible factors.