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Covid-19 impact: Armed with college degrees, they are working as drain cleaners
Updated On: 12 June, 2021 09:18 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
`One should not look down upon any work. After all we have to survive and support the family. What if we are post graduates or double graduates? Our degrees are not going to help us at present,` said one man
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Desilting work in progress at Dahisar ahead of the monsoon, picture used for representation.. Photo/Satej Shinde
Lack of jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic has forced some young men who have college degrees to work as `nullah` (drain) cleaners in the Mumbra area near here. But they are not ashamed. No work is inferior and they have to support their families, said one of them.
A group of around 20 persons from Diva in the district has been hired by a private contractor for nullah cleaning which is undertaken every year to prevent flooding during the monsoon.
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