Yes it's true!
A new wave of bonded labor has engulfed India
The victim in this case is not the rural or uneducated Indian
It’s the well educated class of Indians-‘the Indian engineer’
The culprit is the booming IT industry in India.
Students from engineering colleges all over the country, especially from private engineering colleges fall prey to this new system.
Being in a private college, the student is usually insecure to getting a job.
So he/she becomes desperate for a job. As he/she reaches the final, or in some cases pre-final year of their degree, companies start coming to either their or to some nearby reputed colleges.
Companies hire students promising a great career ahead with a meager salary compared to those given else where in the world.
The student being desperate for a job accepts the offer and is more than happy to get the job. Now he thinks he has conquered the world and stops further search for job. He believes that this job was a dream come true and starts enjoying his remaining college life.
The companies know what excitement there would be in a private engineering college’s
guy after finding a job in their company. This is where the companies start playing with their future employees. They ask them to sign bond. The student signs the bond as he/she feels that he/she may not be able to find another job, and now he/she is a bonded labor.
Thinking how?
Sample this.
My friend was one of the 1st to get a selection in our college among boys in the first few months of our final year.
He was selected in a Tier-1 Indian IT company, hereby named as xyz.
The company had a bond of 18 months with an amount of 1.25lakhs to be deposited in case the bond is broken by the candidate.
The guy was more than willing to sign the bond as he thought his future was secure as he was going to be associated with India’s leading Software Company.
Our college made things worse as they didn’t allow a student who was selected in some company to sit for any other company’s recruitment process.
As soon as he finished his engineering he went for the training of xyz. He was supposed to stay in Xyz’s training facility.
He had to spend 13 days there and on the 13th day he had to sign the bond which he did.
On joining the company in Noida he was promised that he will be given the best technologies to work on and yes he was given training in java. But for the next 5 months after his one month training in java, he was shifted from project to project, in all four projects but not given any work. The reason company gave for these shifts was that there were no vacancies for freshers in the project or that the client is not approving vacancies to be filled in by freshers.
Finally he was thrown in a testing project where he has to do nothing but simply executing automation scripts, that too not in Noida where he was living from past 6 months but in Gurgaon which is 35 miles from Noida.
Currently the guy is commuting from Noida wasting 4 hrs daily just for commuting and doing work which is worth no more than a penny if he wishes to change his company.
He is desperate to switch the location/technology which he can’t do before the next 8 months.
He wants to switch the company but he can’t pay that Rs 1,25,000 cash to his company
Isn’t he a bonded labor?
What say you?
