What is that one challenge that college graduates and freshers from Tier II and Tier III cities face when they come to metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi or Chennai for employment?” asks Rajib Chowdhury, co-founder of Paathshala Learning Solutions (PLS), an educational solutions initiative that focuses on taking development to the grassroots through its employability skills, rural BPO and entrepreneurship programmes in the tier 2 and 3 cities of India.u00a0“We work on their Spoken English, competencies, and functional skills such as customer orientation and sales, etc,” answers the 44 year-old, who has worked in senior leadership positions in corporates.u00a0

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