Current – Lokmitra Gautam
In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 70th National Youth Festival in New Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, via video conferencing, said that a time would come when India’s youth would be givers, not job seekers. At the same time, initiatives like Startup India and Standup India were launched and it was hoped that these two initiatives would create about 3 million jobs in the next five years, but this hope was not fulfilled. This is why in his version of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, he called on the youth to make a resolution and become employers.
Certainly, large-scale new businesses have sprung up in India in five years, but the fact remains that not even one-third of the employment generation opportunities that should have been created through this have been created. It is also true that today there are thousands of young people who are giving jobs to millions of other young people, but this has not made much difference in the country’s unemployment, as the number of unemployed is increasing day by day. According to the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy’s March, 2008 data, the unemployment rate was above 6.5 per cent, which is actually much higher. According to the International Labor Organization, there are 31 crore unemployed people in the world. In the case of India, there is more complexity. The number of people employed in India is more than double.
But the question is how long will we mourn this kind of misery. Sometimes the time will come when we will take the responsibility of our career, our future and our employment on ourselves rather than leaving it to someone else. At the present time a large number of young people have begun to do so. Not a single year in the last five years has gone by without a startup, but we have a temptation to gamble that brings both advantages and disadvantages. Both things are happening with startups. Startups started very fast in 2014 and the success rate also increased, but they also stopped as soon as they started. Currently, the situation is such that, like all sectors, startups are divided into two categories, right and wrong.
For some time now many false startups have started just to get help from government schemes. However, in the midst of all this, there is also the fact that about twelve lakh people have got jobs because of these startups. There are about 50,000 startups in India, of which 10,000 are active startups. Yet India lags behind the US, China and European countries. One out of every five students in the US talks about getting a job, while in India the number is more than 50. The youth of India have the highest desire to get a job. The reason why there is a craze for getting government jobs in India is also believed to be that Indian youth are not interested in working hard. However, it is also a fact that if Indian youth undertake a task, everyone completes it at present.
The big problem of our country is that we have traditionally created a job environment there, be it in the government sector or in the private sector. This is also due to lack of self-confidence, which is why Modi says not to ask for a job. With Modi, many in the country believe that there are thousands of young people in India who have the skills to create jobs, but for some reason they do not dare and do not understand the fact that getting a job has become a daunting task. Even though there is an atmosphere of job creation in India these days, as six lakh jobs are to be created in the government and semi-government sectors by the end of the year, in a country like India, which is a hotbed of unemployment, even six lakh, 50-60 lakh jobs are like cumin in a camel’s mouth. . India will come out of the unemployment gap only when we have more employers than job seekers.
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