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PUNE: Jyoti Balkawade had just passed Standard X when she took a risk and joined a year-long fruit-and-vegetable processing course at ITI, Aundh. I also completed Class XI and XII in a vocational course with cookery as the main subject. That is how it all started,” she said.Jyoti describes her decision to join the course at ITI as a risk and says she was anxious when she joined it. A year later, she established a canteen.Today, at 22, she earns about Rs1 lakh a month.“I always loved cooking. However, I persisted and soon people starting noticing that our food tasted much better than other canteens in the area..