Bangalore start-up says 40% of its delivery boys have engineering degrees

January 4, 2016, NewsCrunch

Petoo, an online food delivery company in Bangalore, likes to employ engineers to deliver food.

It reportedly has 50 delivery boys in the city and 20 of them, that is 40%, come with engineering degrees.

Twenty of the other delivery boys are graduates and only 10 have studied less.

Petoo says it prefers educated delivery boys as they can promoted to managers.

To make the job appealing it pays Rs 20,000 as monthly salary besides allowances, reports Bangalore Mirror. That would be higher than the starting salaries for many in software or engineering jobs.

Mirror also interviewed a few engineer-delivery boys who said they loved what they are doing.

The job woes of engineering graduates have been seriously underreported.

The software boom let to a spurt in engineering colleges and there was a huge rush to get the coveted degrees. The assumption was that whatever stream you opted for, you could end up in the software industry.

The quality of the education in most of these colleges is also suspect.

Vast numbers of engineering graduates of dubious quality are now looking for jobs that are not there.

Many of them land in Bangaloreand end up as delivery boys, among other things.