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| Kerala milkmen heading to the Gulf |
| The job could change his family's fortunes and bring back the good times.
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| INDIA
, 24-November-2007
1:11:37 AM |
| Indians have always been in great demand in foreign job markets for their software or management skills or for other technical qualifications.
However, now there is a new job opportunity opening up in the Gulf, which requires skills of a bovine kind.
Thirty-five-year-old Ajay Kumar has been milking cows ever since he was a child. His family has been in this business for generations. But the younger generation has taken up other jobs as the business declined.
However, Ajay stuck around and this has now fetched him a job offer from a Muscat-based dairy farm.
He is one of the four milkmen to have been selected from 500-odd candidates in Kerala to milk cows at the dairy farm in Oman. It is a windfall for Ajay as he will be earning the equivalent of Rs 12,000 per month plus other perks.
The job could change his family's fortunes and bring back the good times.
''My family depends on me. My father and mother are old and my younger brother is sick. I have to take care of all of them and that's why, I applied for this job,'' said Ajay.
The government-run recruitment agency that helped Ajay get the job is not too surprised that Gulf employers are looking at Kerala's milkmen.
''Our people, even though they are milkmen, they know English. Any nook and corner of Kerala, there will be someone knowing English. Then dairy farming and animal husbandry is also very advanced in Kerala,'' said S Srinivasan, Chairman and MD, Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants.
The Persian Gulf has been the Malayali's El Dorado for decades.
It probably never occurred to Ajay that the traditional skills handed down to him by his forefathers would one day come to his aid in rescuing his family from the clutches of poverty.
Destiny surely has a strange way of working things out.
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