Research reports that 2,800 HEC employees have not received their salaries in the last 18 months...
Digital Desk: The entire world hailed India on the spectacular achievement of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the moon's South Pole.
However, not all stories about India's moon mission achievement had a happy conclusion, and Deepak Kumar Uprariya's is one of them. To say about Deepak Kumar, he by profession is a technician at HEC (Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited), and worked on the launchpad for ISRO's Chandryaan-3. Yet even after the historic success of the lunar mission, Deepak is selling idlis at a roadside shop in Ranchi, according to an NDTV report, which cited a BBC post.
Deepak Upararia is from Madhya Pradesh's Harda district.
As per a BBC report, he left a job in 2012, at a private company paying Rs 25,000 per month, he left that job to join HEC at a salary of Rs 8,000. There was hope that because it is a government corporation, the future would be bright, but today everything appears gloomy.
HEC, a Central Public Sector Undertaking that designed the folding platform and sliding door for the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, failed to pay Deepak Kumar Uprariya's salary for 18 months, forcing the technician to sell idlis to make ends meet.
"So far, I've borrowed four lakh rupees. People have stopped lending to me since I have not returned the money to anyone. I then mortgaged my wife's jewellery and ran the house for a few days," he continues.
Deepak was compelled to sell idlis for his family to survive. "My wife makes delicious idlis. I sell them every day and make between 300 and 400 rupees. I make 50-100 rupees profit. I run my house on this money," he told the BBC.
According to the research, 2,800 HEC employees have not received their salaries in the last 18 months. They have even protested against the government about their pay, but no action has been taken, forcing employees like Deepak to look for alternative sources of money.
According to the BBC, Deepak Kumar Uprariya still works for HEC in the hope of a salary and sells idlis before and after office hours. "At first, I ran my house with a credit card." I received a loan of Rs. 2 lakh. I was declared ineligible. After that, I began running the house using money borrowed from family," Deepak Kumar Uprariya explained.
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