Click to play videoNew Delhi: India may have caught the chill a bit late as far as the economic slow down goes, but now that it has, it's a full blown flu. Nearly one million people have already lost their jobs and in the coming week half a dozen big corporates are likely to hand out the pink slip.
But beyond these statistics there are people who are living and dealing with the uncertainties of a lay off. 53,000 employees are laid off in Citigroup, 24000 in Hp and another 9,500 in DHL.
Cold statistics of a chilly recession which sometimes don't tell us the full story like the story of Sankalp Prakash.
“I was at lunch when my boss called me and told me that we were over staffed and that I wasn't required. So I said fine and stopped going to work from then on,” says Sankalp Prakash.
Sankalp is 31 years old and two weeks ago he lost his job at the export house he'd been working for the past one year.
“I was very disappointed and dejected. I was almost in tears. I kept asking why I but it had to happen so it happened if u has been chucked out u cannot do much about it” he adds.
Most of his mornings these days are spent scanning the news paper for jobs countless phone calls and interviews later, nothing has materalised so far.
I don't have a job right now. I’m dependent on my mom. I don't like it but I’m not finding work,” he continues.
And he still hasn't found the courage to step out of the house and face his friends.
“I'm depressed. I don't meet friends. I don't go out. If u go out u have to spend money and I don't have any i don't want to touch my savings,” he states.
His job paid him only rupees 15,000 and his savings he says are embarrassingly low. The only silver lining in this pink slip situation seems to be the fact that he lives with his mom and doesn't have a family to take care of.
As Sankalp stares gloomily into the future, the predictions from the markets are hardly encouraging .There will be almost three lakh fewer jobs created in India in 2009. Almost all sectors have already lowered hiring by 30 percent and for all you know the slow down may continue for the next 18-24 months.
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