This is how Bhaskar Sen's usual day pans out: He wakes up late, has a cup of tea, ambles out of his home in a crisp shirt and a pair of trousers that belie the state of his finances. The rest of the day, he hangs around at the Mumbai airport or at Vile Parle where his former employer's office stands. Till the end of 2012, Sen was a technician with Kingfisher Airlines. He has been unemployed ever since it shut shop at the end of that year.
Sen's account is narrated by an ex-colleague who is now part of the engineering team at Jet Airways. The colleague doesn't want to be identified. Sen isn't ready to speak.
Sujit Ghosh, 54, also a former technician with the airline in Kolkata, earns a living by selling ladies garments stitched by his wife. He goes to Kingfisher's Kolkata office once a week to share hopes of getting his salary arrears with his peers, he says. He has a daughter pursuing a master's degree. Sen and Ghosh are among the 900 odd employees who are still officially part of Kingfisher's rolls, close to three years after it shut shop. Some like Sen, are still waiting for their arrears and provident fund payments. Many have got other jobs, mostly in hotels, malls, even construction companies. Some are like Anjan Deveshwar, who had to wait for more than two years before he could get a job in the aviation sector. Deveshwar now works with a low fare carrier in Maldives. Pilots are the best off. Almost all of them have been absorbed in new airlines such as AirAsia and Vistara or those on an expansion mode, such as IndiGo.
07/11/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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Sen's account is narrated by an ex-colleague who is now part of the engineering team at Jet Airways. The colleague doesn't want to be identified. Sen isn't ready to speak.
Sujit Ghosh, 54, also a former technician with the airline in Kolkata, earns a living by selling ladies garments stitched by his wife. He goes to Kingfisher's Kolkata office once a week to share hopes of getting his salary arrears with his peers, he says. He has a daughter pursuing a master's degree. Sen and Ghosh are among the 900 odd employees who are still officially part of Kingfisher's rolls, close to three years after it shut shop. Some like Sen, are still waiting for their arrears and provident fund payments. Many have got other jobs, mostly in hotels, malls, even construction companies. Some are like Anjan Deveshwar, who had to wait for more than two years before he could get a job in the aviation sector. Deveshwar now works with a low fare carrier in Maldives. Pilots are the best off. Almost all of them have been absorbed in new airlines such as AirAsia and Vistara or those on an expansion mode, such as IndiGo.
07/11/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
