Sitting alone near a mechanical workshop in Rohtak’s University Institute of Engineering and Technology on a cold Tuesday afternoon, Ashwini Kumar, 22, waited for his turn for a “skill test” for bar bender’s job in war-torn Israel, which he said is a “golden opportunity” for him for a job abroad. The vacancies were recently advertised by the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN), a government body.
Pursuing graduation, Mr. Kumar, a resident of Haryana’s Kaithal, said many of his friends had paid lakhs of rupees to agents to go abroad, and that too illegally. “The agents charge anywhere between ₹20 lakh to ₹50 lakh depending upon the country one wishes to go to. Here, I need not pay anything except a nominal fee of ₹ 10,000 to the government and buy a flight ticket for myself,” he said, carrying a certificate claiming two years’ experience with a private construction firm.
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