Ahmedabad: Jagdish Mehta, Principal of Ganesh Vidyalaya Sankul in Dhrol near Rajkot, has taught English for the past 20 years.
Pandemic Covid-19, which leads to school closure for more than a year now, disturbs its career path after he gets a 50% payment discount.
Mehta got Rs 30,000 per month but found himself struggling with a monthly salary of Rs 15,000 now.
A father from two daughters, he decided to sell life insurance.
Realizing that people only spend on home and medicine products, Mehta began selling home cleaning Mops with a handle that was liked by housewives especially during locking when the servant was not allowed to spread infection.
“I thought of retiring as a staple but the covid pandemic changed my plan.
Fortunately, the business is good and I get more than my salary as a teacher.
For my teaching love, I took the English lecture part time now,” said Mehta.
Post Pandemi, the teacher who served in private schools has become one of the most severe professionals.
Practical schools cover the exception of a few days when Covid-19 cases slightly between the first and diwali surge.
Experts say that the majority of teachers have undergone a payment deduction of 35-50%.
Nearly 40% of private school teachers have been dismissed throughout Gujarat by school management which cites cutting and default costs in payment of fees to be bound cash.
In Ahmedabad, Preeti Sadavarde, a pre-primary teacher since 10 years, has started a connection to sell for example-pav in South Bopal.
50% discount from the pandemic that cut its salary until Rs 9,000 per month forces him to see beyond teaching as a profession.
“With most schools closed, it is clear that salary deductions will be for the long term.
I, along with a friend, decided to start the Maharashtrian snack business in July,” Preeti said.
He said that the teacher has become the most financial professionals financially in this pandemic.
A proper case is Rakesh Dave, a teacher drawing in Maninagar at Ahmedabad, who was passed by school immediately after the pandemic quoted the financial crisis, had struggled to remain.
He used to get a monthly salary of Rs 25,000 but could only produce Rs 5,000-6,000 per month conducting online lectures.
He started the Namkeen business (fried snacks) during locking that did well for several months but when the limit was appointed, the customer base began to dry.
“I was left with 120 kg of namkeen which was not sold that I had to throw away.
Unable to absorb losses, I struggled.
The government needs to announce some support for teachers like us,” Dave said, who owns his wife, daughter and parents in the family.
For many people, shifts have paid off.
In Sanand, Raju Prajpati’s economic teacher, 32, had started a grocery store in the nearest Kuvad Village after he got a 30% salary.
“People especially spend food and medicines.
I started small but now has a monthly turnover of Rs 2.5 Lakh.
I am happy with the switch.
In fact, many teachers in my group are also inspired to start their own business,” said Prajapati.
In Rajkot, Anil Bhatt, 52, taught English in a private school must use to sell vegetables when he gets a 50% payment discount in RS 32,000 monthly salary.
“It was difficult, my vegetable carts were taken twice by the Rajkot Municipal Corporation officer.
Now I have started supplying bulk orders to the hotel in the morning and take a freelance lecture,” said Bhatt.