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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Kunal Purohit

India’s silent youth crisis: College-educated but poorer than a farm hand

Sidhant Mende has an engineering degree. But he works supervising the construction of a house that requires none of his training and offers a pittance in pay, in Ralegaon, India [Al Jazeera/Kunal Purohit]

Ralegaon, India – Sometimes, Shivanand Sawale rues his choices and dreams.

Growing up in Dabhadi village in the Yavatmal district of western India’s Maharashtra state, the 42-year-old was so inspired by teachers around him that he wanted to become one himself.

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