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Just because we live outside the cities, we aren’t second-class citizens!
Coming from Kushpata, a small village in Ghatal in South Bengal, breaking the tradition of working odd jobs was always a challenge for Amrit Kumar Ghosh. “But what else were we supposed to do?” asks the 31-year-old. “South Bengal has always been underserved and marginalised and proper education has never been the norm out here,” he explains.
Amrit comes from a lower-middle class family, and is the eldest child of his parents. His father earned INR 9,000-10,000 every month from a small job, which “was never enough for a family of four.” Financial hardships were common, “especially when someone fell ill,” he recalls.
The straitened circumstances continued, but Amrit continued his studies nonetheless. “My father’s health deteriorated as he aged,” he says, explaining why he needed a job soon. “But a lack of new age jobs in the region,” he explains why his “dream of joining the corporate world looked more far-fetched than ever.”
Instead of leaving his hopes, Amrit began to look for opportunities, but was handed a shock as he “received multiple rejections for lack of communication skills.” English proved to be the Achilles heel for the young graduate – who bent to pressure and “had to take up odd jobs, against all wishes.”
Amrit was forced to abandon his dreams of becoming a corporate, but did not stop desiring better opportunities. Soon, he became informed about Anudip’s low-cost employability training courses, “which immediately sparked my interest, and I decided to give it a go – to learning new skills and masking weaknesses.”
Learning Communicative English, Workplace IT, Cloud Fundamentals, Logical Reasoning, I&ML and other new age skills boosted Amrit’s self-confidence. “I couldn’t hold my tears when Conneqt Business Solutions offered me a job,” he smiles. He is working for Tata Sons owned-firm as an Executive, earning a respectable salary of INR 28,000 every month. “Willing but unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight in the world,” the 31-year-old marks, before signing off with an important question, “Just because we live outside the cities, we aren’t second-class citizens!”
