Friday, April 19, 2019

Hundreds of Jet employees, one plea: Who will give us jobs now?

“We have dependents to feed, please don’t let our 9W bleed” — the poster Rakesh Kumar Kohli held at Jantar Mantar Thursday told only half the story. One of Kohli’s dependents includes his 16-year-old daughter, who is differently abled since birth.

The poster in Sangeeta Mukherjee’s hand bore the message “Hear Our Cry, Let 9W Fly”. It didn’t tell her complete story either. Her mother, a cancer patient, is battling for life at AIIMS.

In the hierarchy of Jet Airways, the gap between Mukherjee’s husband Aishiq, a senior executive engineer with the airlines, and Kohli (50), a mechanic, is huge. But on Friday, their designations were reduced to a footnote as hundreds of staffers gathered at Jantar Mantar, a day after crippling financial crisis grounded the company. Between 2 pm and 4 pm, the iconic protest square was a witness to fear, anguish, anger, tears and the many versions of the “truth” behind the crisis.
19/04/19 Sourav Roy Barman/Indian Express

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