Every
educated Indian wakes up in the morning, and after a cup of
tea peruses the "wanted columns" of a newspaper
for a permanent job that will get him a sizeable income without
much work pressure. The uneducated lot assemble in a corner
of the busy junctions in search of daily rated odd jobs to
win their bread for that day. People, who are in between these
two categories, loiter to get some or other piecemeal jobs
that can provide them a temporary income for a few months.
All these category of people lament that getting a job is
too difficult, since as resources in India are highly limited
for generating jobs. The state and central governments come
out with spicy policy announcements of creating several lakhs
or crores of jobs. These announcements get prominence during
the period of elections or at the time of formation of a new
popular government. The chief executive of the popular government
assures of compulsory employment to one and all, and thereafter,
both the electorate and the elected forget it. The major question
that remains unanswered is, whether it is impossible to bridge
the gap between demand and supply in the labor market for
jobs; and if it is possible, then why so far it was not done?
The political thinkers in India, so far, did not give any
specific and acceptable answer to this problem and the social
thinkers came out with several confused versions. On the other
hand, the economists made several statement couched with technical
terms that could not be understood by a common man. But the
truth prevails that there is unemployment everywhere. Thus,
the question, whether there is any job for an Indian to perform
in this soil that could provide him a life, remains unsolved.
Even though it is not possible to provide employment to all
unemployed youth, it should be made possible to provide employment
to a reasonable percentage of population.
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