When you find your hostel care taker is an MBA…

After exhaustive to and fro run for two days I was allotted room in the brand new hostel. At the time when the sun was shining at its zenith I ascended the stairs to reach my new room at sixth floor. Sweating in the summer of 12. One almirah, two naked beds, a fan and a tube light welcomed me as the hostel boy opened the lock. A mild smell of newness could easily be felt leaking from its white washed walls. I peeped out of the window. A very congested residential area with narrow streets shadowed with multi-storey edifices was over populated with students as well as advertisement of various coaching institutes.

“Bhaiya, you can spend a good time.” said hostel boy or whatever.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“You will find a plenty of curvy figures here in Jia sarai… enjoy the scene from the window.”

“Oh! I see.” I chuckled. “Let see how many curvy Jia’s I find in Jia sarai… anyways, what’s your name?” I enquired.

“Rajesh”

As this hostel was new and still not completely furnished-work in progress, “Before coming to this hostel in which hostel you were jobbed?” I asked.

“I came to IIT just before two weeks.”

“Are you from Bihar?” I asked because his dialect was just like of Bihar.

“I belong to Banaras.” Rajesh replied.

 “So you recently have come to Delhi?”

“No, before I was jobbed in a company in Delhi.”

“Then why did you quit your job?”

“Here was a vacancy of assistant care taker. That’s why I came here. A govt. job, settled life. But now they have taken some other person for that job.”

“So what will you do now?”

“I will prepare for exams for Govt. job. Already have filled CIL form.”

“Coal India Limited?”

“Yes”

Rajesh was of a typical physique with around 45 kg weight and 5’1” height. Given his current job I thought he might have applied for foreman or workman. But ‘CIL’ compelled me to ask him about the post he had applied for.

“HR Personnel” he replied hesitatingly.

And I was shocked.

“You are MBA?” I said, amazed.

“Yes, I did MBA in HR from Banaras.” he replied. “But MBA in HR is good for girls.” He added to defend himself.

He left the room and compelled me to muse, astounded. ‘Is getting a job so hard?’ After leaving my job I was forced to think this way for the first time. Really time is tough. But what can Rajesh and alike do? Perhaps, faults lie in this education system. First it stimulate them to dream big and at last all the dreams are shattered when they face the reality and they find their degree is just a paper of high cost which fails to reflect high value. This is problem of present education system that it has become costlier but value eludes most of time.

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