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“Low-income and a loud voice were contrasts in the neighborhood I grew up” shares Bhargavi who grew up in Bengaluru seeing “students of my age travel from far-away to settle in her city for a career of their choice.” For aspirants like her, ““Poverty-stricken families living in this dream-city, is like merely surviving.” Daughter of a small business owner who made less than 2 lakhs per year, providing for a family of five was always a challenge. Growing up with less resources, “meant to have a low toned-down voice.” Along with lack of resources, “another important aspect which was lacking in me was my confidence”, she claimed, regretting that this forced her to miss “many opportunities which could have helped me fix my family’s financial hardships.”
Completing local college, Bhargavi jumped into the world of job-seekers. “What upsets me is the fact I could not speak in public”, she iterates while recollecting the rejections she faced for the lack of soft skills. “Conventional education did little to prepare me for the professional world,” Bhargavi notes. “Unemployment tag is a shame, and it stopped me from attending family gatherings,” she reveals.
ANUDIP’s new-age employability-linked training courses for students from resource-limited backgrounds challenged the way she thought. “Learning Core Java, Angular, Database Management Systems, with an equal focus in soft skills, English Communication and personality development” helped Bhargavi come out of the limitations she set for herself.
All these years, seeing young boys and girls shifting from other Indian towns to Bangalore for jobs, “often made me empathize on students like us from opportunity-limited homes who could not speak up and shape their careers in our own city.”
The first time Bhargavi contested her own thought was when she “successfully cracked an interview and bagged the employment offer from Wipro.” The once-shy girl, Bhargavi is now a Project Engineer withdrawing an annual salary of 3.50 lakhs.
“I am the first woman from my family to become an engineer,” says a smiling and confident Bhargavi.
