CHENNAI, India – When Sukhwinder Singh, Mitali Sinh and Raman Sorout signed up to train as solar technicians, they had hoped to find jobs in India’s growing solar-energy sector. But none of them did.
Trained under the Suryamitra program — a flagship project of India’s Skill Council for Green Jobs — all three spent months looking for work in the solar industry but drew a blank.
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