| UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM | | | | of graduates fit only for white collar jobs in these |
| | | | | offices. These graduates are fit only for such jobs as |
| | | | | those of clerks, assistants, officers and bureaucrats |
| The problem of unemployment is | | | | sitting at tables in the offices. These educated but |
| a world-wide reality. The developed countries like the | | | | unemployed youths numbering millions and millions are |
| U.S., England, France, Germany, Italy, etc. also suffer | | | | a source of great anxiety and concern. Our education |
| from this problem, but it is more pronounced in India. | | | | should be work-oriented. It should be such as enables |
| With the passage of time it has become worse. It has | | | | a person to stand on his own feet instead of |
| become a threat to India’s economic well-being and | | | | depending on others. It is really an irony that our highly |
| social development. It is one of the major causes of | | | | educated and trained personnel like engineers, doctors, |
| our poverty, backwardness, crimes and frustration | | | | scientists etc. run after the government jobs. It is |
| among the people. India is the second largest country | | | | perhaps because of the education system started by |
| after China in terms of populations and man-power. | | | | the Britishers long ago, which has totally lost its |
| But because of large scale unemployment there is no | | | | relevance and still prevails. They depend too much on |
| suitable employment for them. They are forced to | | | | the government and lack the courage and inspiration to |
| remain idle. | | | | stand on their own feet. There should be more and |
| | | | | more emphasis on vocational education. There should |
| There are millions of young men | | | | be more and more technical institutions and training |
| and women waiting and waiting for job opportunities. | | | | centers. Indiscriminate and unplanned admissions in |
| This chronic problem of unemployment is not | | | | colleges and universities should also be checked. |
| confirmed to any particular class, segment or society. It | | | | Higher education should be reserved only for those |
| is all pervading. There is massive unemployment | | | | who really deserved it. |
| among educated, well-trained and skilled people, and it | | | | |
| is also there among semi-skilled and unskilled laborers, | | | | To alleviate this problem of |
| small and marginal farmers and workers. Then there is | | | | unemployment and under-employment in villages a |
| underemployment. The jobs being created have | | | | progressive employment scheme called Jawahar |
| miserably failed to keep pace with the ever increasing | | | | Rozgar Yojana was introduced in 1989. Over 440 lakh |
| number of job-seekers. It is a problem which presents | | | | families living under the poverty-line are likely to benefit |
| a great challenge to leaders, thinkers, planners, | | | | from it. More such schemes are need to create gainful |
| economists, industrialists and educationists. | | | | employment opportunities for scheduled tribes, |
| | | | | scheduled castes and other backward classes and |
| Our education system should be | | | | communities in the rural areas of the country. The rural |
| reviewed and changed according to our present | | | | unemployment has been a major contributory factor |
| needs. Like factories our universities, colleges and | | | | of this highest incidence of poverty in spite of our |
| schools are still producing on a large scale, a rich crop | | | | efforts towards development and industrialization. |