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Bhubaneswar: School teacher turns BMC garbage vehicle driver after losing her job in Covid-19 pandemic

| Monday | 5th July, 2021

Samuritirekha Behera, a school teacher in Odisha`s Bhubaneswar has started driving Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation`s garbage collection vehicle after she lost her job due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown took away jobs from many people.

Smrutirekha Behera, a school teacher in Odisha`s Bhubaneswar has started driving Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation`s garbage collection vehicle after she lost her job due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Smrutirekha Behera of Bhubaneshwar lives in the Pathabandha slum area with her husband, two daughters and mother-in-law. She used to teach in a nursery school. Her life was normal before the Covid-19 outbreak but it turned upside down after the Covid lockdown. All the offline classes in her school were closed. Even the work of teaching tuition in homes stopped.

While narrating her ordeal, Smrutirekha said - "I have two daughters, we could not even feed them properly during the epidemic. I borrowed money from others for the family`s food, but this could not last long. Due to the pandemic, I had to face the worst days of my life. After the pandemic, home tuition was my second source of income, but that too was denied. I was forced to do so as there was no other option left to earn. My husband didn`t even get his salary. Because of this, we had to get more upset."

Odisha: A woman picks up a driver job in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation after losing her teaching job due to COVID

"I lost my job due toCOVID. My husband was in auto sector which also closed. I`m not interested in this job but I`ve to do it for my family, "she said (03.07) pic.twitter.com/xgsG4Bj2ra
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2021

To fight hunger and unemployment, teacher Smrutirekha Behera decided to take up the job of a garbage truck driver in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. She works every day from five in the morning to one in the afternoon. The garbage has to be picked up from the city and thrown at the dumping ground.

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