Call it an eagerness for a government job, or the jarring reality of the precipitous rise in the unemployment rate that the government of India is failing to tackle, an IITian has joined as a track maintainer in the Indian Railways in Dhanbad reported Hindustan Times.

Shrawan Kumar who hails from Patna, Bihar pursued his engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)  Bombay under an integrated dual degree course in 2010. He completed his B.Tech and M. Tech programme from IIT Bombay in 2015.

It wasn’t hard for the IITian to crack the Group D examination, which is the lowest rank job and requires a maximum qualification of class 10 or class 12 pass. He is currently posted at Chandrapura as a Public Works Inspector or PWI and looks at the track maintenance between Chandrapura and Telo Section.

“It is a very good thing for the railways that such a qualified person has come to the railway. Shravan has been appointed in the Engineering Department of Chandrapura Railway. They will maintain the railway tracks under this,” Prabhat Kumar Mishra, the Public relations Officer of Dhanbad Divisional Railway Manager was quoted by TheLallanTop.

The joining of a person with such high education qualification as trackman has come as a shock to many senior officers of the Dhanbad Railway station.

Shrawan hailed ‘job safety’ as the reason for acceptance of the trackman job despite having an engineering degree from IIT. He said that it had been his childhood dream to have a government job. He is also confident that in future he will become an officer in the government sector soon.

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