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No, the match-april recruitment was never officially canceled. It was put on hold and never officially scrapped. What we read in the papers were just rumors and there was no official statement from the airline which said that the batch was scrapped. There were allegations of malpractice so the vigilence dept. had to investigate it and they cleared it June.
The batch was supposed to be inducted around June-July but by then all recruitemnts had been put on hold. Now they need pilots for the 787s and to replace the expats. The new guys will be put on the RHS and the senior F/Os are being upgraded to command.
They will probably need more pilots in the future (mostly in 2011) but not any more now.