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ob market is worsen- JOBS NOT IN SIGHT, affordability of education
ing in India. Govern- for all sections of society
J employability of our DATA MISSING TOO with attendant incentives
ment employment
is shrinking and
of enhanced scholarships
and other facilities to equip
youth waning in view the future workforce and
of the country reeling under job creatons with increased
shortages of quantitative Shortage of quantitative quality higher education productivity.
quality higher education with worsening employment in the informal However, immediate
with worsening employ- sector is hurting economy, writes MY SIDDIQUI worry is neither govern-
ment in the informal sector ment jobs, nor reservations
of economy, knocked down but the frozen state of the
completely by ill-conceived overall job market (job avail-
disastrous demonetisa- ability) itself. According to
tion and impractical hasty the Centre for Monitoring
implementation of the Indian Economy (CMIE),
“well thought out” Goods a noted private sector
and Services Tax (GST). This economic organisation
has been abated further by for economic assessment,
changes in the calculation data computation, analysis,
formulae of Price Indices evaluation and forecasting
and GDP, with no correla- country’s state of economy,
tion with ground reality, India’s total number of
compounded further by employed fell from 407.9
suppression of employment million (approximately 48
data by the NDA Union crore) in December 2017 to
Government. 397 million (39.7 crore), with
According to the Union the salaried job losses alone
Government’s successive jobs. In short, government gered by Information Tech- for this period estimated
annual budgets, yearly Cen- is facilitators and private nology revolutions followed at 3.9 million. It has the
tral Government’s recruit- sector providers. Worrying by spurt in manufacturing, potential to upset the apple
ment has fallen from 113,524 scenario reveals that in an agro-processing, construc- cart of the government in
to 100933 from 2014-15 to atmosphere of rising social tion, logistics, health care, the general elections 2019,
2016-17. During the same tension caused by targeted tourism, media (both print & notwithstanding the gov-
period, outstanding work- mob violence against mi- electronic) and other value ernment’s disclaimer.
force shrunk from 16.91 lakh norities, Dalits and denigra- services. The Central Government
to 15.23 lakh in the Govern- tion of women with growing Given the fact that only has not published employ-
ment of India. Same period politics of exclusion, politics 10 per cent of Indian gradu- ment data by the National
saw shrinking of workforce of hatred and politics of ates are employable as per Sample Survey Organisation
in the Government banks marginalisation, private a survey of the NASSCOM, (NSSO) of the Department
including Regional Rural sector is wary of investment commissioned by the Union of Statistics and the Labour
Bank from 9.47 lakh to 8.97 in the country so much so Government earlier in the Bureau under a deliberate
lakh. This explodes the that employment is wan- UPA regime, there is urgent design to deflect the main
myth of viability of reserva- ing. No business can thrive needs for increasing seats problems facing the people
tions in government jobs without peace and social in government schools and and indulging in emo-
on social and economic harmony. As a result, there higher education ensuring tive polarising issues with
backwardness when there is has been quietly large scale quality and high standards misgovernance galore. It
no generation of jobs in the lay-offs in the private sector as abroad. Presently, num- appears the government
government. media houses, companies ber of seats in private edu- has nothing credible to
In the liberalised Indian including multi-national cational institutes is three showcase in fulfilment of
economy, private sector corporations. times more than the public its 2014 electoral prom-
generates employment and India has seen wave educational institutes. In ises resulting in wide scale
the government is required of jobs in government till view of the growing com- discontentment!
to provide conducive envi- 1980s and thereafter since mercialisation of education,
ronment for generation of the globalisation in 1991 trig- it is necessary to ensure LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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