Now I eat well," says 23-year-old Vasva Jituvbhai Rameshbhai from
Vadodara's Haripura village. He had never used a toilet until last year
when he joined the All Gujarat Institute of Driving, Technical Training
and Research (AGIDTTR) at Waghodia, 30 km from the heart of Vadodara
city. He had never before eaten a
sumptuous meal — which for him means eating both wheat and rice or both dal and vegetables in a single meal. And he had been in a car once, many years ago, when there was a wedding in the family.
At the gates of the institute which was set up a few years ago through a public private partnership (PPP) between the government of Gujarat and Maruti Suzuki IndiaBSE -0.77 %, India's largest carmaker, Rameshbhai was told to quit chewing tobacco. "I haven't used any form of tobacco since then," declares this confident young man who currently works with the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) as a driver, earning close to Rs 6,000 a month. The salary he says "is a great source of relief " for his family of daily wagers — which comprises his mother and father, sister and her daughter besides grandparents.
Rameshbhai knows he isn't rich, but he isn't poor any more even by "normal standards". Well, according to India's controversial economic benchmark, only those who earn less than Rs 22.42 per person per day in the countryside and Rs 28.65 in urban areas are below the poverty line. By that yardstick, Rameshbhai is virtually set for life.
"The centre gave us the skills to stand on our own feet," asserts Rameshbhai. He has not only learnt driving at the institute, but has also picked up "how to talk to women", basic English and, most importantly, the courage to face the world, he adds, emphasising that he now wants to save some money to build a toilet in his home. "I didn't know the value of sanitation until I came here. Back home there was no other choice," he recalls.
Rameshbhai is one of the more than 3,200 trainees to find a job after passing from AGIDTTR's scenic 25-acre campus, which caters exclusively to students belonging to the scheduled castes of the state who have passed class eight. The rest, of the total 4,200 trainees, returned home to work as labourers, farm hands and so on.
"That's a success rate that beats our expectations," says Avinash Kumar, a MarutiBSE -0.77 % executive who was in charge of operations at the institute until recently. Ajay Gupta, who has replaced him, is glad to work in "an atmosphere where the trainees are aspiring and enthusiastic about job prospects following completion of the course".
Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/auto/automobiles/maruti-gujarat-govts-ppp-agidtr-trains-tribal-youth-for-better-job-prospects/articleshow/22188869.cms
sumptuous meal — which for him means eating both wheat and rice or both dal and vegetables in a single meal. And he had been in a car once, many years ago, when there was a wedding in the family.
At the gates of the institute which was set up a few years ago through a public private partnership (PPP) between the government of Gujarat and Maruti Suzuki IndiaBSE -0.77 %, India's largest carmaker, Rameshbhai was told to quit chewing tobacco. "I haven't used any form of tobacco since then," declares this confident young man who currently works with the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) as a driver, earning close to Rs 6,000 a month. The salary he says "is a great source of relief " for his family of daily wagers — which comprises his mother and father, sister and her daughter besides grandparents.
Rameshbhai knows he isn't rich, but he isn't poor any more even by "normal standards". Well, according to India's controversial economic benchmark, only those who earn less than Rs 22.42 per person per day in the countryside and Rs 28.65 in urban areas are below the poverty line. By that yardstick, Rameshbhai is virtually set for life.
"The centre gave us the skills to stand on our own feet," asserts Rameshbhai. He has not only learnt driving at the institute, but has also picked up "how to talk to women", basic English and, most importantly, the courage to face the world, he adds, emphasising that he now wants to save some money to build a toilet in his home. "I didn't know the value of sanitation until I came here. Back home there was no other choice," he recalls.
Rameshbhai is one of the more than 3,200 trainees to find a job after passing from AGIDTTR's scenic 25-acre campus, which caters exclusively to students belonging to the scheduled castes of the state who have passed class eight. The rest, of the total 4,200 trainees, returned home to work as labourers, farm hands and so on.
"That's a success rate that beats our expectations," says Avinash Kumar, a MarutiBSE -0.77 % executive who was in charge of operations at the institute until recently. Ajay Gupta, who has replaced him, is glad to work in "an atmosphere where the trainees are aspiring and enthusiastic about job prospects following completion of the course".
Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/auto/automobiles/maruti-gujarat-govts-ppp-agidtr-trains-tribal-youth-for-better-job-prospects/articleshow/22188869.cms
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