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Unit 5: Unemployment in India

5. Many of the unemployed persons are from reluctant classes. State works them through Notes
special employment drives/the newspapers and magazines publicize these vacancies
frequently. “Employment News” reflects this struggle of the government.
6. State Governments have set up Employment Generation Councils, which aspect after the
employment needs of their corresponding districts.

7. The Ninth Five Year Plan lays satisfactory stress on the actions for decreasing the previously
high unemployment levels in the country.
The procedures taken up during the Eighth Five Year Plan were thought to result in GDP growth
of 5, 6 per cent during the plan period. The total number of employment chances produced was
nearly 9 million during the Eighth Five Year Plan.

If the target for Ninth Five Year Plan is executed properly, we could see 9.5 million employment
prospects during the next few years. Thus unemployment could decrease to insignificant levels
by the year 2002.
It will be important for you to note that private sector jobs must be made open to the individual
in need and not-so-deserving applicants on human grounds. Physically and psychologically
handicapped persons-already being considered after by the central and state employment agencies
must be assumed satisfactory opportunities in the private sector as well.

Another feature of unemployment is the appeal of the good morals of life in the cities. A son of
a farmer, who could work hard in his village and could even own a car, goes to adjacent city and
finds himself a job of a clerk or a sales executive. This tendency is not healthy, if the whole pop
travels to the cities, who would manage our agaric which is the ancient and time-tested profession.
It is essential to know that the State must donate by introducing more organization based
schemes and core sector units. The unexploited crop lands should be cultivated and should be
delivered only to the landless jobless people. Private sector should promote more process
industries, which employ large number of trained and semi- ‘killed people in the rural parts.
Going overseas is a lucrative location only for the computer programmers, engineers, nurses,

paramedical staff and skilled labourers. Others could find better prospects in India as grass is no
longer greener in the West and the Middle East.

The existing state of Indian economy does not offer good prospects on the employment front.
On the other hand, it is estimated that the budget offered by the Finance Minister would go a
long way in eliminating the unemployment difficulties of the masses.
Our government believes that the economy would revive after a brief period of uncertainties.
Joblessness would be removed only if the industry and business, of the nation pick up. During
April- December, 2012 Indian economy has shown signs of improvement.
Further, the Government has laid more push on the rural and agricultural sectors in his budget
speech. These areas could produce a good number of the self-employment prospects for the
rural masses. Hence, relocation to cities could be checked. The unemployed youth would try to
continue at their villages or home towns.
Finally, the State must sponsor structures for small scale entrepreneurship for the semi-illiterate
and the illiterate people. At present, many systems are in vogue but these requirements are
tuned to the needs of the jobless. Red tape and corruption in government departments stop the
funds from being approved to the needy entrepreneurs.

The youth should initiate small enterprises or manufacturing divisions of their own with the
assistance of reserves from the central and state funding agencies as well as from Rural Regional
Banks.

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