No Salary for 18 months, technician who contributed to Chandrayaan-3 forced to sell idlis

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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft did not pay Deepak Kumar Uprariya's salary for 18 months forcing the technician to start selling idlis to make ends meet. The report mentions 2,800 such employees of HEC who didn't receive their salaries from last 18 months. They have even protested against the government for their salary, but no action was taken pushing employees like Deepak to find alternate means of income.

As per the BBC report, Deepak Kumar Uprariya still works with HEC in the hope of the salary and sell idlis before and after office. "First I managed my house with a credit card. I got a loan of ₹ 2 lakh.

I was declared a defaulter. After that, I started running the house by taking money from relatives," Deepak Kumar Uprariya said. "So far I have taken a loan of four lakh rupees.

As I have not returned the money to anyone, now people have stopped lending. Then I mortgaged my wife's jewelry and ran the house for a few days," he added. Deepak was forced to sell idlis for the survival of his family.

"My wife makes good idlis. I get 300 to 400 rupees every day by selling them. I make a profit of 50-100 rupees.