17 Berhampur ITI girls bag jobs in German firm’s Chennai unit
BERHAMPUR: Braving all odds owing to the lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, at least 60 students, including 17 girls of the government-run Industrial Training Institute (ITI) here, have bagged jobs at a Germany-based oil shield company’s Chennai unit and already joined work.
“The Ganjam district administration allowed the selected candidates to go to their workplace in Chennai by arranging for buses. All the selected students have reported for duty,” ITI Berhampur principal Rajat Kumar Panigrahy said. The digital platform for the campus selection was developed by the ITI to facilitate the students to appear for the interview from their homes.
Sources said in the first year of the training period, each student will get around Rs 14,000 per month along with accommodation, subsidised food and other facilities.
At a time when lakhs of migrant workers were forced to return to their native places owing to the closure of the factories amid the lockdown and people were fearing to go outside when the Covid-19 cases were rising rapidly in the country, these students were eager to join work soon after their selection.
“My parents were reluctant to allow me to go outside the state when the Covid-19 cases in the country, especially in Tamil Nadu, were showing no signs of a let-up. But I managed to convince them saying that such an opportunity will not come again,” Kalpana Parida of Kanheipur in Ganjam district’s Khallikote block said. She has studied computer application.
“Right from leaving the campus to joining duty, we followed all the Covid-19 regulations as instructed by the institution, the district administration and above all the company,” Didi Sethy of Badakushasthali, near Berhampur, who has studied to become an electrician, said. “Around 400 current and former students of the institute have bagged jobs in different companies across the country through campus selection on a digital platform developed about two months ago owing to the lockdown,” the principal said. He added, “We are playing the role of a coordinator between the candidates and the companies in the online mode of recruitment.”