Bolangir(Odisha): He is a proud graduate engineer. But, he is now working as a daily wager in Odisha’s Bolangir district, one of the district most backward KBK region.

Seven months back, Ananata Beria, a civil engineer, was leading a decent life with job in an infra company in Chennai. Now, he has joined his father in doing manual labour in MNREGA programme near his village.

Fortunately the block chairman located him and referred him to the district collector.

Ananata along with his father met the collector and he got an engagement as data entry operator in the collectorate.

The Bolangir collector, Chanchal Rana, said that he would see that Ananata gets a job suitable to his qualification and skill.

The 2018 batch BTech civil engineer is not alone who has been hit by the Covid-19 led shut down.