Sitting alone near a mechanical workshop in Rohtak’s University Institute of Engineering and Technology on a cold Tuesday afternoon, Ashwini Kumar, 22, waited for his turn for a “skill test” for bar bender’s job in war-torn Israel, which he said is a “golden opportunity” for him for a job abroad. The vacancies were recently advertised by the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN), a government body. Pursuing graduation, Mr. Kumar, a resident of Haryana’s Kaithal, said many of his friends had paid lakhs of rupees to agents to go abroad, and that too illegally. “The agents charge anywhere between ₹20 lakh to ₹50 lakh depending upon the country one wishes to go to. Here, I need not pay anything except a nominal fee of ₹ 10,000 to the government and buy a flight ticket for myself,” he said, carrying a certificate claiming two years’ experience with a private construction firm.Jitender Singh from Haryana’s Kurukshetra said that he would read the terms and conditions in the offer letter before deciding to go to Israel.Rohtak-based Haryana CITU vice-president Satvir Singh opposed the hiring saying that unemployed youth were being misled by the government with the promise of bright prospects abroad and being kept in dark about the possible dangers. He said the trade unions were against it.