Jobs Crisis

Newton School, a Bengaluru-based edtech startup, allows students to cross financial and locational barriers to achieve their dream of becoming software developers.

“As the economy starts opening up again, we will see a lot of people looking for work. But they are primarily looking to the government to provide jobs since the private sector is not in a position to help them out.”

"In my eyes, the world was functioning fine without me and no one cared about my pedigree or past credentials," says Shrikant Singh, a 2009 IIT-Kharagpur grad, who struggled to get a job because of the global recession despite performing exceptionally well in academics.