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Engineering student in Odisha working as MGNREGS labourer to fund studies ANI | Updated: Jan 28, 2021 08:19 IST Puri (Odisha) [India], January 28 (ANI): Rosy Behera, 20, a civil engineering student in Puri has been working as a daily wager for the last three weeks to pay her college fees. She has been been working in a road project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) near her home so that she can pay her college dues of Rs 24,500 to obtain her diplomatic certificate. After completing my diploma in Civil Engineering in 2019, I am not able to arrange funds for my Bachelor s degree. I also have to pay an outstanding amount of Rs 24,500 to the diploma school, Behera told ANI. ....
2-MIN READ Engineering Student From Odisha Working as Daily Wage Worker to Pay off College Dues An engineering student in Puri works as a daily wager to pay her college fees. (Credit: ANI/Twitter) Rosy, who has five sisters, comes out daily in the morning to the construction site to shovel soil and carry them to the site for road building. FOLLOW US ON: For 20-year-old Rosy Behera, education had promised to alleviate the poverty and misery that had so long dogged her and her family. But things seemed to have barely changed for the resident of Odisha s Puri district, who despite being a civil engineering student in Puri, was forced to work as a daily wage worker for a local road project under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) to pay the remaining fees of her private engineering college. ....
Odisha sisters work for MGNREGS to fund engineering studies Updated: Updated: January 25, 2021 07:37 IST Unable to find other options to earn money, they hope to pay off pending dues first Share Article AAA Rosy Behera (white dress) returning from work with family members in Odisha’s Puri district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Unable to find other options to earn money, they hope to pay off pending dues first For the past 20 days, Rosy Behera has been working to build a road near her village in Odisha’s Puri district where, instead of putting her civil engineering skills to work, she carries mounds of earth on her head as a daily wager under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). ....