For Dahod, where a colonial-era railway workshop provides secure jobs inside a largely tribal agricultural district.
Two worlds inside one district
Dahod holds a long-established railway workshop - secure employment, pensions, quarters, a whole administrative culture - located in a district that is largely tribal and agricultural. It sits close to the Madhya Pradesh border, and seasonal migration for work is an ordinary part of the year for many families.
So two quite different life templates exist within a few kilometres: the railway job that offers stability and a fixed ceiling, and farming or migrant labour that offers neither.
Where the pressure lands
Almost entirely on people trying to move between the two. A young person from a farming family who reaches the railway job, or education, or a city role, carries something heavier than their own ambition - they carry a family's proof that the crossing is possible.
That is an enormous amount to put on one person's career, and it makes ordinary setbacks feel catastrophic. A failed exam is not a failed exam; it reads as the door closing for everyone behind you.
What the work addresses
Reducing that load to a survivable size. You can be the first without being the only chance, and holding both is what makes it possible to keep going after a setback rather than quietly withdrawing.
Sessions
Online, in Gujarati or Hindi, since both are commonly used in this district.
Frequently asked questions
- Do you work in Hindi?
- Yes. Both Gujarati and Hindi are workable, whichever you think in.
- Is this suitable if I am the first in my family to study?
- Yes, and that is a large part of the work here.
