Job seekers line up for interviews at a job fair in Chinchwad, India, February 7, 2019. Picture taken February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
CHINCHWAD, India (Reuters) - Santosh Gurav gained a bachelor's degree in technology from a mid-tier college in western India last year, specialising in electrical engineering and hoping to land a job in industrial automation.
Six months on, the 27-year-old repairs mixer-grinders, table fans and other household appliances at a cramped shop in the western city of Pune. On better days, he picks up broken LED lights from scrap dealers, fixes them, then sells them. He earns about $50 a month, just enough to cover the rent for the room he shares with two others as his home.
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