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Unit 5: Unemployment in India

reconstruction, especially as the villages lack technical expertise and also that 70 per cent of Notes
India’s population lives there. Emphasising on agronomy will enlarge rural renovation, inform
the agriculturalists, raise agronomic production, preserve foreign exchange and above all be a
step towards self-sufficiency and employment for all.
The only other country which positively mobilised vast inhabitants for national development is
China. If we are to assemble our man power assets we must learn from the errors of China
during her Great Leap Forward. The Chinese commit three basic faults. Firstly, the peasants
were given insufficient training. Secondly, the tax charged on agriculture was excessively as
high as 70 per cent of the total production. Finally, staffing was ruled not by attentions of merit
and skill to do the job, but by faithfulness to the Communist Party and on philosophical grounds.
In India the corresponding item of this last fault is staffing of workers on communal, regional
and linguistic grounds. This must go. It is the duty of every answerable and patriotic Indian to
announcer in a new ‘meritocracy.’

You must be aware that unemployment in our country has developed such a complex, economic,
social and political issue that need urgent steps to eliminate its scourge. Half-hearted measures
or short-term explanations will not yield any abundant results. The leading obligation is repairing
the existing educational system. We have to change the system from making white collar job
searchers to almost job oriented technocrats, who are capable to start their own ventures there
should be faultless organisation and integration between our teaching and the developed
environment. We have to search new paths in farm sector, herbal and medical fields to deliver
job prospects after completing the schooling by the students. India should also go for fast
growth of cottage and small industries. Government should take real steps so that the globalisation
does not affect small and cottage industries. The industrial development can help us in fighting
from that problem to a great extent. We must focus on labour demanding units. We have to plan
and exploit our industrial potential to the complete amount to deliver jobs to the fellow youths.
In short, the problem of joblessness has to be distributed with on war footing lest the youth
should be unfocused to some wrong path.

5.2 Causes of Unemployment in India

In this section, you will learn about the causes of unemployment in India. It is clear that the
joblessness state is uninviting truly. It has, consequently, to be taken care of suitable measures
and on a crucial basis. Though, beforehand we had discuss the ways and means of eliminating
joblessness, it is essential that we comprehend the reasons that given rise to it. The major causes
which have been accountable for the wide blow-out of unemployment can be spelt out as under:

1. Rapid Population Growth: It is the primary cause of unemployment in Rural India. In
India, the most part in rural areas, the population is growing quickly. It has undesirably
affected the unemployment condition largely in two ways. In the first place, the progress
of population directly stimulated the unemployment by making big addition to labour
force. It is because the degree of job development could at no time have been as high as
population growth would have required.
It is true that the collective labour force involves the creation of original job chances at an
increasing rate. But in real practice employment development has not been adequate to
match the progress of the labour force, and to decrease the back leg of unemployment.
This leads to unemployment circumstances secondly; the rapid population growth indirectly
affected the unemployment condition by dropping the resources for capital formation.
Any rise in population, over a large total base as in India, suggests a large absolute
number.
It means large extra spending on their education, upkeep, and training. As a result, more
resources get used up in private consumption such as food, clothing, shelter and son on in

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