Naresh Lal, 23, had a dream. In 2008 he enrolled in an obscure engineering college in Indorewhere he paid an annual fee of Rs 4.5 lakh for a four-year course. Lal was the first in the family to go to college. "My father was happy that I'd be a software engineer and get a good job at one of the IT firms," says Lal.
It didn't quite work out that way. After graduating last year, Lal did not land a job for months. A move to Bangalore — the cradle of software services — followed, but the job didn't. Sporadically he would get leads of a recruitment drive from his friends and they would all flock to the IT firm's campus. "There would be a long line of 3,000-4,000 people," he says. Overwhelmed, companies would have little option but to call in just a fraction of that number for the interview, and ask the others to go.
In February this year, Lal moved out of Bangalore to Bhopal where he joined a small IT company. "They said they will start paying after three months," he says. Five months of working without pay wore Lal down, who early this month returned to Indore. "I had thought after my college I will ease my father's burden. I feel terrible that I am myself a burden today."
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