7-Points Formula to tackle unemployment problem in
India
Setting up of industry for creating jobs in ratio of
job-oriented courses is need of the hour
Initiative
of the government to introduce ‘Start Up India – Stand Up India’ programme from
January 2016 as announced by the Prime Minister, Narendera Modi in his monthly
radio programme-Mann Ki Baat is appreciable step which was also announced by
the PM in his address on Independence Day celebrations of August 15 and it is
going to be launched formally. It is the second largest scheme of Govt. of
India after Make In India.
During the newly launched scheme, the stress will be
to make the youths self-dependent from technical point of view, to create more
employment opportunities and to associate them by using in the development of
the country by keeping a close association with the IIT, IIM and all central
universities and national technical institutions. This programme is not only for development of
digital technology but provide opportunities to the youths to extend their
services as per the requirement of our country.
The Centre and State governments through its
election manifestoes allure the youths with high hopes for the accomplishment
of their hopes, for providing employment but just after winning, hardly take
care of them with the results, the
educated youths after crossing the employment eligibility age, are compelled to
enter in life full of disappointment, frustration and stress.
The educated unemployment youths in the event of
less employment opportunities are left with no alternative except to offer
themselves before the ‘Emloyment Devtas’ with their skills at the cheaper rates
at the cost of their family and themselves.
They have to surrender themselves but it is definitely an exploitation
of their skills.
In fact, the governments are backing out from its
responsibilities of providing jobs and engaging the unemployed educated youths
at the meager wages through various outsources to run its day today
affairs. This practice is neither in the
interest of quality work nor in the interest of youths as their future at stake
especially when they will become old with nothing for rainy season for costly
health services with no pension and insurance. The placement agencies or service providers
playing the role of middlemen are
keeping an eye on the pockets of youths for even giving temporary jobs and the
youths are being engaged at the very nominal wages.
Due to various recruitment scams in the past,
various leaders and officials are serving their terms in the jails or facing
trials – Sidhu of Punjab and Chutala of Haryana are the glaring examples. Keeping this in view, the governments by engaging the universities, institutions or
private sector companies for recruitment
purposes are passing on the responsibilities on them and managing the
recruitment of nears and dears by getting the merits of their choice or taking
the blank papers to complete it with favourable marks. To make the recruitment
process more independent and secret, now the private companies have started
inviting online applications and declaring the results online also by getting
the required testimonials. The unemployed are being economically exploited by
putting a condition of deposit of high fees
besides incurring heavy expenses for appearing in the test at far off
places. By inviting the open
applications, it’s like Ik Anaar So Bimar situation as for even one or two
posts, the applications in thousands with fee are received and one can well imagine
the recruitment criteria.
The Punjab Chief Minister had always been talking
about decentralization but in the state everything is centralized. Now nothing
is in the hands of able officers despite the fact the proposals are got
generated from them. Earlier the
recruitment policy for engaging on six or three months basis was at the
district level through employment exchanges and was a easy, transparent process
besides involvement of any litigation. There are hardly any court cases in lime
light of those times but with the changed policy of allowing the departments to
invite open applications in addition from the Employment Exchange, the educated
unemployed youths have been exploited.
Even number of youths interested to go abroad have been cheated by the
private agencies which has put a big question mark on the working of the
Overseas Cell being not satisfactory.
So far as Punjab is concerned, the expansion of
deemed universities cannot contribute to bring reforms in solving the
employment problem. The private
educational institutions are becoming richer day by day whereas the government
educational institutions are lowering in its standards. The children in government schools are put
only by the economically weaker people who cannot afford the high fee of
private institutions. At the same time,
the universities established in the private sectors can hand over the degrees
to the youths at high prices butcannot ensure employment in the market.
Frankly speaking, the following 7-Point Formula can
bring sea-change in reducing the unemployment graph;
1. Our education should be job
oriented courses.
2. The governments instead of
engaging the middlemen for recruitment purposes must strengthen the Employment
Exchanges opened exclusively for the purpose and hardly extending any services
in this field in filling up the vacant posts in the government offices.
3. The government should open
Coaching and Placement Offices like Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public
Administration which is providing training to IAS/PCS and senior
officers/officials of the government - at the district level, start
professional and job oriented courses in consultation with the various
universities, as per demand in the foreign countries at very low fees.
4. Both Centre and State
governments have to make sincere efforts to save the future of the youths both
at the rural and rural levels by opening the Career Guidance and Counseling
Cells by availing the services of
retired educationists.
5. The recruitment should be
strictly under the supervision of concerned departmental officers instead of
private agencies.
6. The temporary or adhoc
appointments should be avoided rather regular appointment with responsibility
be given preference with condition of accountability to get the finest results.
7. Setting up of industry for
creating jobs in ratio of job-oriented courses is need of the hour
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