Meet the master's-level Patna Uber driver who dreams of working for the UPSC and enjoys watching Netflix

 Meet the master's-level Patna Uber driver who dreams of working for the UPSC and enjoys watching Netflix

Meet the master's-level Patna Uber driver who dreams of working for the UPSC and enjoys watching Netflix

After earning his master's degree in geography, a guy recently met an Uber driver in Patna who was enrolled in an 18-month UPSC course on the edtech portal Unacademy.

Additionally, the user said that the Uber driver uses Netflix and Amazon Prime to watch television.

India's little towns have long been the backdrop for tales of perseverance, hard labor, and striving to balance many occupations in order to make ends meet.

I recently met someone who was part of that community in Patna, Bihar, where an Uber driver had completed a master's degree in geography and was enrolled in an 18-month Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) course on the edtech portal Unacademy.

"My Patna-based Uber driver is under 25. NET MA in Geography program. some knowledge of geographic information systems. But rising through the ranks is still a government job. paid ₹60,000 for an 18-month curriculum at Unacademy UPSC. The Hindu's internet client. observes Netflix and Prime. The only query, as the individual put it on X (previously Twitter), was "Why are there no factories in Bihar?" on Thursday.

In addition, he questioned why Bihar does not have enough industries to hire everyone who is eager to work.

Many readers responded to the man's article with explanations for why they believed the state was not developing its industrial sector.

"Expectations from the industry for Bihar are unrealistic. Being a landlocked location, its main rivers don't contain a lot of water. Such nations need for a different strategy. But to the individual who aspires to seize every chance that presents itself and not miss out, great admiration and best of luck," a user said.

Someone else added, "A major problem - formal degrees will not translate into decent employment without language skills, life skills and other skills in sought in a highly competitive global market."

This is the outcome of Bihar's successive administrations' inability to draw in investment; investor gatherings and memorandums of understanding have mostly stayed on paper. The telecom industry has grown as a result of the need for connection. If not for the actual infrastructure No business will visit Bihar if the state's infrastructure, law, and order do not improve." A third person wrote.