Beat 01 · The gap
19 years of skill. Zero certificates.
Mallappa has built walls across Kalaburagi since he was twenty-four. He never went to school, so no education institution can certify him — and without a certificate he is paid the unskilled rate for skilled work.
Mallappa Talwar·Mason & bar-bender · Kalaburagi0
Years on site
·
0
Certificates
₹620
Per day
Education institutions certify education
Every ITI and polytechnic route needs a school-leaving certificate he does not have.
Written assessment assumes literacy
A standard theory paper tests reading, not whether he can build a wall.
No employer can verify him
Nineteen years of work exists only as the word of contractors he no longer works for.
So he is paid as unskilled
₹620 a day for work that carries a skilled rate — because nothing proves otherwise.