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Waiting in line to receive a relief package of food and essentials in the scorching heat of June 2020, Gazala Paraween dreaded the day if the help stopped. “What option did we have apart from surviving depending on the relief, since my father’s auto-rickshaw was grounded?” she asks, recalling her experience during the pandemic.
Coming from a small village named Dihakuransha in Odisha’s Jajpur district, the monthly income of INR 6,000 was “never enough to run a household, let alone if someone fell ill.” It was only after the pandemic-hit and her father’s income shrunk, she understood the fatality of a single-sourced income. “Since then, I gave tuitions to the kids in my society for an earning while also continuing my college” marks Gazala.
On completing her graduation, she was awe-struck to see, “thousands of job-seekers like her in the queue.” Her chances of being shortlisted faded without the skill-sets the post-pandemic employment market demanded. “These two years already taught me a lot” assured Gazala but it was time again to “take up an industry-aligned training which can help her get the desired employment.”
Enrolling for a career development training at this stage, “helped me learn Communicative English, Workplace IT, Cloud Fundamentals, Logical Reasoning, I&ML, and Mobile Applications from ANUDIP’s Kuakhia centre.” Through the help of the centre’s corporate placement cell, Gazala got interview calls from top multinationals. What happened next, “was an anecdote to my learning habit. Getting a job-offer letter from ACCENTURE, one of the top IT firms, changed many things.
When her peers applauded her to become the first girl in the family to step in a multi-national company, Gazala corrected, “I am not just the first woman but I am the first one from this family to work in a corporate“
