Problem of Unemployment


"Planning solves intricate problem." 

These days India has been facing the problem of unemployment for a long time. Though we have completed five-year plans very successfully and embarked on the next plan, the problem of unemployment is still unresolved. It has in fact become all the more grave. Today the greater number of youngmen is without a job than there were fifteen years ago. As the years go by, the problem of unemployment is becoming more severe.

The problem of unemployment has a number of factors which contribute to unemployment. The education system in India is very defective. It produces educated youth with degrees which are useless. Education in our country is not job-oriented. They have no value in the market. So it is a wastage of the educated class. Many students become frustrated. The other cause may be attributed to advancement in science. Science has replaced the man with machinery. Our educational system makes a person unsuitable for work. He thinks that only uneducated or less educated are to work. Yet another factor that contributes to the gravity of this problem is the preference for white-collar jobs in our country. The educated youth consider it below his dignity to go in for labor work. They want to become only officers. There is no dignity of labor in our country.

The Indian, Government is trying to check the problem of unemployment, the education system needs a thorough overhauling. No doubt, technical institutions have come up to cope with the demand, the universities already existed. All of them teach in a way in which the students lack the will to work with their own hands. Another factor is proper knowledge and training about the system. The third factor is the population. Every year there is an increase in the number of unemployed youth. The government does not have sufficient resources to cope up with the problem.

There are a number of factors that contribute to unemployment. The unemployment problem exists in advanced countries like England and America too. However, in India, we can overcome this problem by utilizing manpower. The education system may be modified in a way so as to meet the demand of the market, giving self-employment to the youth, providing the youth the required help. All this needs proper planning and execution. At the same time, the educated youth must recognize and appreciate the dignity of labor. Their outlook towards manual labor needs a thorough change.