As the world is dealing with the pandemic and every individual has suffered one way or the other. Many have lost jobs, the business has shut. The world stopped. Amid all this crisis, one heartwarming story is coming in from Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore.
P. Venkata Subbaiah was earning his and his family bread and butter as a Telugu teacher in a corporate school. The coronavirus took his job away and he was forced to sell bananas to earn for his livelihood.
He is a Bachelor in Education (B.Ed) and also holds two master’s degrees in Public Administration and Telugu. This is the worst phase for a 43-year-old teacher.
He lost his job as management asks him to ensure 6-7 admission for the academic year to get his salary and retain his job. Subbaiah said:
“In the current situation, it is not possible to get new admissions. Who will enroll their children now? They will not even allow me to enter their house because of the fear of coronavirus.”
Amid this crisis, he is now seen wearing a mask pulling a hand-drawn cart in the town and sell banana. “I had no other option to support my family,” said Subbaiah. He lives with his wife and two children, aged five and six years.
However, selling banana can only fetch ₹200 a day while teaching he was earning ₹16,000 a month. He has over 15 years of teaching experience and never thought that his life would turn out this way.
Some of his former students, after finding out about his condition raised funds to help him and have managed to raise about ₹87,000.
Subbaiah is overwhelmed by what his former student did to him in the toughest times of his life. He said he will now return to his profession and will start teaching again.
