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00:00The amount that I was being paid back in Calcutta, probably here I'm being paid three times, four times the
00:05amount.
00:05I tried for many jobs in Kerala, it's not happening.
00:08I relate to you all so much because I'm also somebody who has migrated for work.
00:12It was very difficult for me to get a job.
00:14Would you say you're the first in your bloodline to do this?
00:17I can say that.
00:18When it comes to West Bengal in general, I have seen there is hardly any diversity of jobs.
00:23So you're saying that people are skilled, but the jobs are not matching the level of skills.
00:28Mostly women migrate, the primary reason is marriage and for men it is to find employment.
00:34Is that I don't understand why Delia is for mayonnaise and momos.
00:38A lot of FOMO happens.
00:39You're not Muslim, right? We don't give, you know, rented house to Muslims.
00:43People continuously kind of judge you for being a single woman in a different city.
00:49My sister was like seven years or eight years.
00:52I saw her like that every day.
00:54Now I sometimes, you know, have dreams.
00:57So I saw her that age only.
00:59I just left home and then everything changed.
01:01Your father sounds a lot like my father.
01:03I can see my parents getting old.
01:05I want to stay with them.
01:06But I also know that if I go back home, I will not get the same job as I'm doing
01:10right now.
01:11India has the largest population of young people in the world.
01:15The country produces millions of graduates every year.
01:17But jobs are not keeping up with them, as per the 2026 State of Working in India report by Azeem
01:24Premji University.
01:25Jobs become a talking point every election season.
01:28Parties promise job creation, unemployment support and internships, among other things.
01:33Yet many people have to migrate in search of jobs.
01:36About 41.4 million people migrated to other states for work-related reasons, as per the 2011 Census.
01:43Since that survey took place many years ago, it's highly likely that the number of migrants has increased.
01:49Today, I'm going to talk to Zoya from Assam, Shinjani from West Bengal and Alfred from Kerala to know what
01:56triggered their migration from their home states
01:58and what challenges and personal wins come with such a move.
02:02When did you move out and why?
02:03So, I am from Assam, Dibrugar and I have graduated from Dibrugar itself.
02:11And then I had to like, I have graduated from BCom, right?
02:16And BCom has not such opportunities to find a job.
02:22You can find there, but there is like a payroll is very, very less.
02:29So, I thought that I need to do something more than this.
02:34So, for me, I moved out of Kerala in 2020 for my undergrads.
02:39I have graduated out of Delhi University in Political Science.
02:42So, until 12th, the only thing that my family said was, you know, study very hard.
02:49And until 12th, my line was pretty straight.
02:52You study hard, you get good marks.
02:54So, after 12th, after getting all the good marks that you need 10th, 12th, forget it.
03:00I was at a crossroad where I decided, this cannot go on because if that goes on, then I would
03:06have ended up in, you know, a neat coaching facility or an engineering.
03:11Is that something that happens in a lot of families there?
03:13Yes, if you are a middle class, then back five years back, that is two of the prominent options that
03:20you have.
03:20Either if you have good marks after 12th in science, you go to a neat coaching facility, you spend a
03:25year over there or you choose J.E., go with engineering.
03:29But I just chose political science just to stay away from engineering.
03:34So, one thing that drove me to Delhi was exposure.
03:39I thought that, you know, moving away from my place, going to Delhi, meeting new people, it's going to open
03:46up some ways in me which I can explore more.
03:49I worked in Kerala for a year.
03:51And then again, I understood that if the first reason was exposure, the second reason was ambition.
03:57And I started working with the government of Kerala, with the Kerala Youth Leadership Academy.
04:02And after completing that fellowship, I tried for many jobs in Kerala, it's not happening.
04:07What kind of jobs were you trying for?
04:09Primarily, right now, I am poised to take up a job in the developmental sector.
04:14And Shinjini, do you want to share your experience of moving out and what triggered it?
04:19Right.
04:19So, basically, I moved out back in 2022.
04:24But I came to Delhi last month.
04:27So, one of the major reasons why I feel that any state like Kerala or West Bengal or Assam has
04:35been also kind of behind is the diversity of jobs.
04:39So, for example, I'm a lawyer.
04:42And most people think that as a lawyer, I would go to court, I would go to the high court
04:46and just like settle a case.
04:48But that's not always what is going on.
04:50A lot of my friends work in corporate sector.
04:53They work in bigger law firms.
04:55They work in MNCs.
04:56I work in a policy think tank.
04:57I work with policies.
04:59So, when it comes to Calcutta, when it comes to West Bengal in general, I have seen there is hardly
05:05any diversity of jobs.
05:06If you are a lawyer in Calcutta, you go to the court.
05:09That's it.
05:10There is probably just one policy firm.
05:13There is probably just one law firm in Calcutta operating.
05:17So, that draws a lot of people out.
05:21For example, there are other, some of my friends are engineers.
05:24They have studied in Calcutta in good colleges, which are private, which are public.
05:29And they have, now they are earning pretty well.
05:32But if they were back in, if they lived in Calcutta, probably they would have also gotten into a very
05:38stagnant position.
05:40Like he said, like everybody has ambition.
05:43So, at the end of the day, you would want to climb up the ladder.
05:46For me also, I felt ambition was one of the major reasons.
05:51Because the amount that I was being paid back in Calcutta, probably here I am being paid three times, four
05:56times the amount.
05:57And I have the possibility of growth.
06:00Probably in the next few years, I will go and I will become another, like I will go up the
06:05step.
06:06Are you all the first people in your families to migrate?
06:10Yeah.
06:10Me.
06:11For me, it's me only.
06:12Like from my family, no one.
06:15No one have ever come from there to here.
06:18Would you say you're the first in your bloodline to do this?
06:21I can say that.
06:23My mother, actually, she lived in Mumbai for like four years.
06:29But that was just because she had a project there.
06:31But it was not like she had to migrate.
06:33Full-time migration didn't happen.
06:34So, both of my parents live in Calcutta only.
06:37And even a lot of, most of my friends also from my school, they also live in Calcutta.
06:42Because they're doing their master's from Calcutta.
06:44So, I think I just want to be a little more ambitious than most people and just get out of
06:51the city.
06:51What about you?
06:53No, for me, my father migrated first.
06:56We have this unofficial link with GCC countries, Carolites.
07:00So, yeah, he has been a full-time migrant.
07:03He just, he's a daily wager there.
07:06Yeah, he has been working in the Gulf for almost, I don't know, 15 years or something.
07:10And right now, he's back home.
07:13Good right now.
07:14But yes, my father migrated first.
07:16What do you all miss about your hometowns?
07:20Friends, food, and the climate, definitely.
07:25Because I'm not a, I don't know, a climate in Delhi is either, there is no middle portion to it,
07:31right?
07:32It's extreme.
07:32If it's cold, it's very cold.
07:34If it's hot, it's scorching hot.
07:36But it's not like the same there.
07:38And air and water also.
07:42Yeah, these are the main things.
07:43And family as well, yeah.
07:47Yeah, I think the major reason is food.
07:49Yes, I miss Bengali food a lot.
07:52And my mom's home-cooked meals.
07:55So that's, and Delhi, I feel like, as you said, like, the weather is very bad.
07:59I've never seen this much heat in my life, to be honest.
08:02And so.
08:04Yeah, same, like, weather is the main thing.
08:07And then people, like, I have never seen this much of people in my life.
08:11Like, I, first, I came, like, in Delhi, in metro, actually.
08:16So, I saw, like, so many people are here.
08:20Like, from everywhere.
08:21Like, in Assam, you don't find many people.
08:24Like, you will, won't see in the street, like, going somewhere, one to two people you will see.
08:28But in here, like, everyone is, it's like a mela going on, you know, everywhere.
08:34So, people, yeah, I can say.
08:35And then food, of course, food is, Assam's food is very authentic, very simple, but nice, healthy.
08:44Any culture shocks you all had when you arrived or till now you're experiencing?
08:50Okay, to name one, I would say, as a state, Kerala is a very secular state.
08:58So, here, I don't see that amount of secularism.
09:02You know, there is always this issue of caste coming up here and then.
09:07Especially when you're working in this sector, you know, you get to see a lot.
09:11But, so, I'm not saying, in Kerala, this is non-existent, but the degree of things that are happening there
09:18versus here, it's very different.
09:21Yeah, that is basically one stark thing which I can identify.
09:25Any example from your experience?
09:29I don't know.
09:30The people, the way people judge you, I've heard stories of people saying, you know, when you say your first
09:38name and you go to a property for rent,
09:41like, you want, you want to rent a property to leave and you say your first name, they're fine.
09:44When you, the moment that you say the second name, now, the conversation changes and they're like, ah, we're doubtful,
09:49you know, we don't know whether we should give you.
09:51I've been, I've been told in my face that, what's your name? I said, my name is this.
09:58You're not Muslim, right? We don't give, you know, rented house to Muslims, if that's fine.
10:03And, and, and, in a very proud sense, that, you've been told this.
10:07Yeah, I've been told this.
10:08They're asking, how many people are here? And I say, three.
10:11And, and who are these three people?
10:13Mohammedin, Tuneena, Koi.
10:15And then, you know, you know, I'm living here with my brother, sister and stuff like that.
10:19So, we have to be very safe.
10:21And, and, and it hurts because the kind of place where I come from, this is not the case.
10:27And, and, and, you know, working in the sector as well and the culture that I carry behind me, it
10:33pains at times.
10:34And, and you really cannot do anything.
10:36So, you just, you just leave it.
10:38Yeah.
10:39Yeah.
10:39What about you, Shinjini?
10:41Yeah.
10:42So, one of the, I'm going to take it, one funny note on this, is that I don't understand why
10:48Delia has put mayonnaise in momos.
10:51Because I've always had the red chutney with momos.
10:55So, yeah, that, that's one reason.
10:57But, on another hand, I feel as a woman, Calcutta has always been a very safe environment for me.
11:04And, I've never been judged with what I'm doing, where I am, and why I'm doing it.
11:11Even with my friends, even with my relatives or neighbors.
11:14But, in Delhi, I feel that people continuously kind of judge you for being a single woman in a different
11:22city.
11:23And, I've had, had questions where people ask me, are you married?
11:28Why are you living alone in a city like this when you're not married?
11:31Do you have any plans to get married?
11:33And, that kind of shocks me here, because people are more, maybe family oriented, but it's also like, it's about
11:43my decisions as well.
11:44And, back in Calcutta, I've never faced any of these questions.
11:49And, secondly, also security.
11:51Like, when I did my fellowship banking in Bangalore, I've seen that it's so safe, even at 2am, 3am, if
11:57I'm returning, after probably at some friend's place, I'm returning home.
12:01I've never had trouble with people.
12:03I've never felt insecure.
12:05But, here, I get constant calls from my mother or from my father saying, like, why haven't you returned?
12:10Why are you out so late?
12:11Even, like, even if it's 11pm or 10pm.
12:14So, yeah.
12:15You know, you mentioned marriage.
12:16And, I found out a very interesting statistic that most, that the migration, reasons for migration among men and women
12:25differ so much by sex, according to government numbers, that mostly women migrate.
12:31The primary reason is marriage, and for men, it is to find employment or any employment related reason.
12:38Yeah.
12:39But, we have two women on the panel who have moved out to work.
12:43Yeah.
12:44Yeah, I mean, definitely not marriage.
12:48So, yeah.
12:48And, would you all move back to your hometowns if you could?
12:52Or, do you have any plans of doing that anytime?
12:55Not yet.
12:56For me, if I got the same job, probably, in Calcutta, I would think about it.
13:02Like, yeah.
13:03Because, I love that city.
13:04I have my friends there, my family there.
13:07How often do you visit?
13:09Probably, like, once or twice a year, maximum.
13:13Because, it's also about, because Delhi to Calcutta, the airfares are huge.
13:18It's almost 8,000 if you are buying early tickets.
13:21And, if you are buying, like, probably two weeks, even, it will go up to 10,000, 12,000, one
13:25way.
13:26Yeah.
13:28So.
13:28So, like, too much higher.
13:31Like, we are, we have three airports in Assam, Guwahati, Chorhat, and Debrugger.
13:38And, also, there is another airport is operating, but it's the other side of Assam, like, other side of Barakville,
13:46you know, that side.
13:47Like, so, like, three are main that I can, you know, choose.
13:51And, the fares are very, very much high.
13:55Like, if, and I try to go, like, once in a year, it will take me, like, 20,000.
14:00And, then, up and down.
14:02And, then, again, if I choose to do, then, it's 40,000.
14:07So, I have to think about the fare first.
14:09Then, I decide, okay, I have to, anyway, I have to go, you know, like, twice or once, at least,
14:14in the November of time that I go, usually.
14:17What about trains?
14:18Trains will take you, like, three days to reach Debrugger.
14:23So, it's quite hectic.
14:25And, I, like, three days only, I, you know, waste my time in going and coming.
14:31It's six days already, and my company will throw me out.
14:33So, it's better to go with airlines.
14:36So, yeah, it's quite expensive.
14:38So, you have to balance your leaves with the home visits.
14:42What about you?
14:43How many times do you visit home?
14:45Two times, two to three times.
14:47But, but, I am not in that phase where I can yet afford a flight.
14:52So, I will have to depend upon train, and this is north, and that's south.
14:55So, that's 2.5 standard days.
14:58So, back and forth, five days gone for travel, and then, what, so, if I am opting for a leave,
15:04then, I have to take at least 10 days.
15:06If I am to get a proper, you know, time with my family.
15:10So, usually, I opt not to go, and it's, it's, if it's occasions, special occasions, something, I usually try to
15:19get one-way flight, so that I can save on some time.
15:22So, that, that, that happens.
15:24And, and, and about moving back to my home, definitely, yes, but not anytime soon.
15:29Maybe seven, eight years down, down the line, where I've, you know, enough security in terms of money.
15:35And then, you know, probably look to start something of my own in this space only, in Kerala.
15:41So, if that's the case, then, I'm happy to move to my state.
15:44Does your household depend on you for an income, or do other people, other members of your family also earn?
15:50For me, my father, yes, he, he's earning.
15:53My mother, as well, she teaches at a kindergarten school nearby.
15:57So, yes, both of them, I depend upon them, actually, right now.
16:01And, and, soon after I get my job, I'm looking to, you know, put them in, in retirement.
16:07So, that's going to shift after I get job.
16:13Actually, on this point, I remember, so, both of my parents are working.
16:17My dad is on the verge of retirement, but they earn pretty well.
16:20This also makes me understand that even though we have come from good colleges, we have had a good education
16:27background,
16:28a lot of us don't even earn that much because a lot of us take money from our parents also.
16:33Like, I also don't want to lie about this, but at the end of the month, I also look forward
16:39that my parents end up giving me 10,000 or 12,000,
16:41or probably like just 5,000 also.
16:43But it just becomes very difficult because a lot of jobs don't pay well also in this economy.
16:49So, yeah.
16:52What about you?
16:52Yeah, for me, we have a food outlet where my parents, both of the parents are working there.
17:00It's your own food outlet?
17:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, our own.
17:02And, and I am the third person who is earning right now.
17:06Do you all have siblings as well?
17:08Yeah.
17:09Yeah.
17:09You don't?
17:10You?
17:10I have, I have two sisters.
17:11I'm the eldest.
17:12You're the eldest.
17:13So, you've set, you've trailblazed.
17:15Yeah, right.
17:15Right?
17:16So, yeah, I'm going.
17:17Now they know they can also do something like that.
17:18They're 100%.
17:19And what about you?
17:20I have a younger brother.
17:21You're also the older child.
17:22Older child, yeah.
17:23Then you've also made a pathway for your brother maybe.
17:27Yeah, hopefully.
17:28I think elder kids have that, you know, that thing now that they have to experiment first.
17:32That's true.
17:33Then the rest can follow.
17:34They know, they know better.
17:36But for, for, for maybe the oldest child or a single child, it's, you have to make your
17:42information, like you have to get your information yourself.
17:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:46We cannot share everything to anyone like, you know, like even parents also.
17:50So, I don't, I am like a person who, you know, stays little with myself.
17:57You know, I don't actually share everything.
18:00Like whatever I'm facing here or everything, whatever is going on, I don't feel like to share
18:06it to my home.
18:07Like they are also like working only, right?
18:10So, I don't want to pressure anything that they are doing it, doing it.
18:14And I am doing it here or whatever help I can do to them.
18:18So, that's the motto.
18:20Yeah.
18:20I wanted to also know that you all have migrated from faraway places.
18:23What have, what are the challenges and wins of this process?
18:29The main motivation is your, you know, like our home.
18:32Like we get the motivation from home that we have to do something much better than this.
18:37So, that's the motivation that leads to like where I am right now today.
18:45So, it's quite challenging of course because there is no one who guided me that, you know,
18:51like you are going there.
18:53So, they have experience in sharing that do this, do that.
18:56So, there is no one.
18:57And also, I am like a, as a female, I can say that, that it was risky, I can say,
19:06or
19:06maybe, I don't know, what do I say, but it's like a bold move that I took.
19:11And my parents also worried at first that, no, how can you live like alone?
19:16No one is there, like nobody is there.
19:19So, I thought, no, I have to do it.
19:21Like what will happen, you know, like I will do it anyway.
19:25So, yeah, then I came to college and then here and now it's settled.
19:30I am doing it good.
19:31For me, like moving in, challenges was, language is there definitely.
19:39But I know my fair share of India, I can survive.
19:43So, but then again, blending in takes time.
19:46It takes patience.
19:48And it's a process and you have to show the patience to go through that process.
19:53And it's fine, I can, I can blend in, I can, I can survive that, that is there.
19:59And on the wind side, definitely the angle of payment, welfare of your family that comes
20:05in, because, you know, as I said in the earlier stage that education puts you out of your misery.
20:12So, nothing much, but then again, putting your family in a space where they can have what
20:17they want, that is what I aspire for.
20:19And this transition, if that's helping me do it, then I'm fine with it.
20:24And to grow along with this as well, it's a good journey.
20:28I mean, I can happily be a quarterly visitor to my family, going there on an onam and then
20:32spending 10 days with them, go on a vacation and come back, get on my job, again go back
20:37and Christmas, I can do that, I'm happy with that.
20:39For me, I think the challenge has been more emotional because my family, I can see my
20:45parents getting old.
20:46So, that's one of the major challenges that I feel like is I want to stay with them.
20:51But I also know that if I go back home, I will not get the same job as I'm doing
20:55right
20:55now.
20:56So, and also like my parents, when my dad talks to me, he has that, like he's inquiring
21:02as to how my day was, what I've been doing.
21:05And then I understand that a lot of things I don't share with him or he's not sharing
21:10with me.
21:11Probably he's sick or probably he's not that well.
21:13He won't tell me that because he'll feel like, oh, you might get worried.
21:18Yeah, I might get worried or I might just feel bad.
21:21So, but I also understand he also wants me to come home now and then and just stay with
21:27him for a while.
21:29And, well, I've visited home probably two times or three times a year, which is not enough.
21:35And yeah, I think that's one of the major challenges for me.
21:38But at the end of the day, when I come back from work, I learn a lot from what I'm
21:42doing.
21:43And I love the space that I have at my workspace and what research I am doing for not only
21:51the
21:52organization, but also for the country.
21:54So I kind of contribute to research for the country.
21:58So that kind of keeps me at edge and it helps me to actually stay grounded and feel like
22:03I'm on the right path.
22:04I'm going, I'm doing well and I will do well in the future.
22:08So, yeah.
22:09Yeah, your father sounds a lot like my father.
22:11I relate to you all so much because I'm also somebody who has migrated for work.
22:16And I understand that, you know, you miss home sometimes.
22:19You want to go back.
22:20You have festivals.
22:21You have a lot of FOMO.
22:22A lot of FOMO happens when you're away from home.
22:26Like after graduate only, like, you know, after graduation only I have moved out.
22:32And from there my sister was like maybe seven years or eight years.
22:39So at that time only I saw her like that every day, you know.
22:44And after that I only see her like two times or three times.
22:48So now I sometimes, you know, have dreams.
22:51So I saw her that age only.
22:53Like it's so...
22:54In your dream you've seen her as a child.
22:56Child only.
22:57Like now she is like taller than me, you know.
23:01And she has just passed her class 10th exam a few days ago.
23:06So it's like yesterday, you know.
23:09I just left home and then everything changed.
23:12Was it easy for all of you to find the job that you're in?
23:16Personally for me, yes.
23:17It was very difficult.
23:20So to get the first breakthrough in any sector, it's very difficult, right, to get that first job.
23:25I mean, I had to wait a lot to get into Kerala Youth Leadership Academy.
23:30And I thought my transition is going to be easy.
23:33But that did not work out.
23:34I tried a lot.
23:36The jobs that I land up in are paying you pennies.
23:38And, you know, I don't see any growth as well.
23:40So that is the reason why I shifted to ISDM.
23:43You know, with ISDM, it is a very good curriculum.
23:46It has all the tools that you need to grow as a development professional.
23:50Plus you have a placement cell, active placement cell.
23:54They get you placed.
23:55So that was one prime reason.
23:58Because I could not deal with all the outside competition that was going on.
24:02It was not just happening.
24:03At least here I have a good chance that at least, you know, 50, 60 companies will be coming in
24:08to take in people from the school.
24:11So it was very difficult.
24:12Yeah.
24:14For me, actually, so I did a fellowship before this in Bangalore.
24:21That was moderate to get.
24:23I wouldn't say it was extremely difficult.
24:25But if I'm not talking about the policy firm sector in the legal think tank area, if I move
24:33to probably getting a job in a law firm, it is highly competitive.
24:38Because over every year, there are almost more than probably 80,000 students, law students
24:44who graduate every year.
24:46And a lot of law firms are so specialized, so niche, that they probably recruit probably
24:52just five or ten people a year.
24:55And maybe there are, if I'm saying like good law firms, there are probably 10 to 15 good
25:01law firms.
25:01So maybe 1,500 to 2,000 students will get into a very good law firm with a good background
25:08and a good, moderate paying, good salary.
25:13What about the other probably 70, 80,000 students?
25:17So there's the question that lies like.
25:19And a lot of times I've seen people who are from better colleges getting more, like people
25:26are interested in them more than if you are from probably not so good college.
25:32So that's another reason that I have seen a lot of branding matters a lot, especially
25:37in the Indian market.
25:38I've seen that a lot of engineers are from IIT, IAMs.
25:42They will get better jobs than probably a student.
25:46I mean, not everybody is extremely good at getting a better college.
25:51You might just end up not having a good college, but you're a good person who wants to learn,
25:57who wants to experience things.
25:59And that's where the problem lies.
26:01People who are ambitious, but we may not have gotten into a great college, we end up like
26:06fighting so much in this economy and almost gets at a point where it's very depressing.
26:11Was that the case for you?
26:14For probably four months, I was a little scared, skeptical because I was not getting something
26:19good and I felt like, what was I doing?
26:22Like, why did I even think about doing law?
26:26But then things started changing.
26:28I did a master's actually.
26:29So after the master's, I think, just because I got into a very good college in my master's,
26:34things kind of like became a little better.
26:37But before that, I felt it was very difficult for me to get a job, especially with the current
26:43economy.
26:44For me, if you are not from a great background or you don't have specialized experience, people
26:51will just start questioning you.
26:53A lot of times I've seen recruiters ghost you out of nowhere and that's very disheartening
26:58also.
26:59So, yeah.
27:00I think, Zoya, you were agreeing with her.
27:03Yeah.
27:03Right?
27:03So what has your experience been?
27:05It's, for me also, it's very, very tough because our is, my industry is maritime-based, as you
27:13know, and then my state is like a landlocked state and there is no such companies, no such
27:20terms even that I have heard before, you know.
27:22So before, like, coming here, I never knew, or nobody in my, you know, circle also doesn't
27:30know about it.
27:31So, like, that, it's the company where I am or the industry where I am, it is quite hard
27:39to find a job in there, like staying there at my hometown.
27:43So I had to move out.
27:44I had no other option because I was a BCom graduate and after BCom, I don't know there
27:52is any such, you know, company or something that who, you know, hires us.
27:56Like, we only find a job in a CA firm that to, like, an assistant type of job and they
28:04will pay you, like, five to six thousand, that's all.
28:07And there is no scope.
28:09So that's why I needed to, you know, get out from that zone so that I can do something
28:16that I have maybe potential that I wanted to do something good.
28:21You know, every election season, a political party's promise lacks and even crores of jobs
28:26sometimes.
28:27What's your take on this?
28:28And what would you want your elected leader to do about jobs in your native place?
28:36Yeah.
28:38Regarding job, I can say that Assam government is doing because I have seen a lot of my friends
28:45have already been placed in this Assam police and then there is C grade, D grade, some government
28:53jobs.
28:54So, yeah, they are doing it.
28:56But then still, it's like a population is this much and the job is like, you know, like
29:03proportion of 10 percent maybe.
29:05So, the other people are left behind.
29:08So, they prepare for next year.
29:10Then the job opportunity will come and then like that.
29:13So, and for me, it's like I never try to be in a government job because I don't want
29:20to simply.
29:21Like, I do not, you know, settle for this like jobs which are like limited to me maybe or
29:32like I don't want to.
29:34So, I just, you know, like stepped out.
29:37So, other people are, of course, my friends are doing it and they are doing well.
29:40And there should be more opportunities, of course.
29:44Like there is some industries also coming in like the semiconductor things are going
29:50on.
29:51Then there is AIMS and everything is opening up.
29:53And IIMS also opening up in Assam.
29:56So, yeah, I think in future there will be jobs for the other, you know, youths.
30:06So, for the past 10 years, the government of Kerala have done pretty good in terms of,
30:12you know, making the economy open.
30:14We've been ranked number one for ease of doing business as well.
30:18So, there are a lot of startups being incubated and there are a lot of investments coming in.
30:25And it's just the beginning phase.
30:26So, interesting times ahead for Kerala in terms of the number of jobs that are going
30:30to come in.
30:32So, yeah.
30:33And what I would want to see is, as she said, diversification.
30:37Now, right now there is a huge push on AI and the service sector basically.
30:42So, people like developmental sector and then other sectors as well, you know, look at us
30:47as well, try to encompass or include other types of jobs as well.
30:51That would be...
30:52Development sector jobs are there?
30:53Development sector jobs are hard to come by because the thing is that, as I said earlier,
31:00you know, education, be it be education, health care, the basic work is done.
31:05And in other states, it is these NGOs and these large organizations that are taking up the basic
31:12things that are to be done just because, you know, government issues tussles maybe the amount
31:19of money coming into the state probably.
31:21So, it's a different scenario in Kerala.
31:24But, yeah.
31:25I mean, challenges comes and, you know, it's going to open up ways, new ways as well.
31:31So, I hope that, you know, this sector opens up in Kerala in the near future.
31:35And hopefully, I can shift to my home state as well.
31:39What about you?
31:41Yeah, so, I feel like there could be a lot of work that the West Bengal government can
31:49do in terms of jobs.
31:51I have had...
31:52I've seen a lot of Bengalis out in Bangalore, out in Delhi, out in Bombay, who also talk about
32:00the fact that there is no job back in the city.
32:04And even if I'm talking about Calcutta, if I'm not talking about Calcutta, apart from Calcutta,
32:10any other city in West Bengal does not have so much of infrastructure or it does not have
32:16so much of good systems in place that would give people better jobs even.
32:21Some government jobs, yes, there is SBI, there's RBI, there's LIC.
32:27There are a few other government sector PSUs who operate from Calcutta, which are great.
32:36But apart from that, I feel like there's so much more than people can do that you can call in
32:44other
32:44MNCs to come and have a base in Calcutta.
32:47I've seen bigger MNCs go to, there are MNCs here, Microsoft, there's Google here, there's
32:55Google back in Bangalore.
32:56I've seen Bengalis from Calcutta going to Bangalore and working in Google, coming to
33:02Gurgaon and working in Microsoft or IBM.
33:04And if a little effort were to be done in these sectors, and some MNCs could come and work
33:13from creator base in Calcutta or anywhere in West Bengal, I think that would go a million
33:19ways for the whole city.
33:22So, I think that's one of the major things that I would want is to have more companies
33:28coming into the city, into the state itself.
33:30Would you have, as a voter, give weightage to job promises in an election season?
33:38Yeah, I would probably, because India is a very young population state, where you have
33:43huge amount of younger people, even younger people coming up to the state.
33:49So, I feel like if you don't have better jobs, what will these people do?
33:55At the end of the day, you will have to feed a nation.
33:57You have to make sure that there is economic growth, there is development overall in every
34:02state, every industry for the country itself.
34:05And that's the only way how you do it is to give a good job to a younger person and
34:13then
34:13also ensure that they have a better standard of living.
34:17I think these two go very hand in hand, jobs and standard of living.
34:20Plus one to whatever she said, because if the state can facilitate, you know, bridges
34:27gap of young people getting jobs, then it's a yes to that.
34:31And I hope that whichever party comes to power, you know, does what they are saying.
34:37Just do not let it remain on paper only or on, a lot of time that is what happens.
34:42You know, they just say something and nothing actually comes out.
34:45So, I would really want to see people actually making sure that, you know, that the youth
34:50of the population, the youth of the country are getting into jobs and are having a dignified
34:55life as well.
34:56So, yes.
34:59Yeah, 100%.
35:00I will go for that.
35:02Because a government job is a security, you know, sense of security that everyone should,
35:08like everybody, you know, encourages you.
35:10Like in growing up, everyone says that you should have a government job that would, you know,
35:15like a security that you will, like a lifetime, for lifetime.
35:19As a girl, you should have a stable income and stable life.
35:25But at the same time, I would say, like, yes, government is giving jobs.
35:30Even government is giving everything.
35:32What is not giving?
35:33Like food to, you know, like shelter, toilets, everything.
35:39I don't know, people were like, I feel that there should be government schemes, of course.
35:45There should be there that the poorer people who needs it.
35:49But then at the same time, if people, you know, dependent on that, then how will you,
35:54like, you know, go forward, you know, like from here to there.
35:59But it's like a sense of also a thing that you should do beyond that, you know,
36:07like government job will give you security and everything.
36:10But if you have a bigger ambitions, bigger things to do in life,
36:14the government job won't be able to do, I think.
36:17I know you all have mentioned that it's tough for you all to go back home.
36:20But are you all able to go back to vote when elections happen?
36:24No, I couldn't.
36:27I went actually.
36:29I did go.
36:31I casted my vote as well.
36:34But the thing is that, as I said, five days for me.
36:37So, I just had to take the leave.
36:40I had another engagement with my family as well.
36:42So, double down.
36:44And usually you get calls from back home.
36:46This time, right now, this election is a very crucial election for Kerala
36:52because the LDF has been ruling twice and the UDF desperately wants to get back on chair.
36:56So, you know, help was wanted from all sides.
36:59I believe so.
37:01Father also told me to come.
37:02If you have a chance, you should definitely come.
37:05And I did.
37:05I did go.
37:07But the decision was, like, it was not easy for me to, at least my institution, as it is ISDM,
37:15they just said, you go.
37:16Not an issue.
37:17But I missed five days classes.
37:18I have to make up on that.
37:19So, that's it.
37:21Okay.
37:22Thank you so much for talking to Brood, all of you, and giving me your time.
37:28You
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