BERHAMPUR: If there’s someone shining the light through moonlighting, look no further than Ch Nageshu Patro of Odisha’s Ganjam district. The 31-year-old is a guest lecturer at a private college by day and a porter at the railway station by night. In between, he finds time to teach poor students at a coaching centre he himself set up.
Patro has been working as a registered porter since 2011, but his life changed after the Covid outbreak. “Most trains stopped running and I lost my livelihood. Instead of sitting idle, I started teaching students of Class X,” says Patro, a postgraduate in Odia.