Bengaluru: These days, social media is abuzz with claims and counterclaims about the progress being made in several sectors of the country. Not to be left behind, the WhatsApp University products are vying with one another, making tall claims about the same, backed by enough numbers and statistics. However, the sad ground situation that continues to haunt across the country is about employment generation.
Lakhs of jobs vacant: Whether at the state or Union Government level, and irrespective of the various departments, lakhs of jobs continue to remain vacant, while positions on contract have almost become the order of the day. And, wherever recruitments are happening, aspirants are squeezed to part with hitherto unheard-of big chunks of money.
Euphoria of New Education Policy: Just a few years back, the whole country was embroiled in a major controversy over the introduction of the New Education Policy(NEP). There were never-ending debates about the advantages of the same on par with the developed countries, by those in favour of it. On the other hand, there were a number of them opposing the same because the state and country lack the basic infrastructure, apart from qualified staff to implement the same.
B Sc instead of Engineering! Krishna V Itnal, a septuagenarian Gandhian and former Administrative Officer of the Life Insurance Corporation of India(LIC), now settled in Pune, laments: "I went through a news item in Sakal daily of Marathi which disturbed my mind for the desperate youths who are helpless for their future are joining various colleges. The trend in Pune is that a majority are joining B Sc courses, discarding Engineering subjects, for similar courses are available in B Sc courses".
The same situation prevails in America: Charudat Bhat owned and managed a small-scale industry for nearly thirty years. He is now above seventy, and leads a retired life in HSG society ie Silver coin Appartments in Dhayari, near Limaye Nagar in Pune. Charudat Bhat informs: "The same situation prevails in America now. I had been to the United States recently. There the Engineering courses, particularly on the industrial side, are closed, and faculty is out of a job...
...IT may not sustain us for long! China concentrates on basic production and sustains the job market. But the same China dumps finished tools in India, and we are doing the mere assembling jobs. This has to change. Our too much concentration on mere service sector like IT may not sustain us long. Then where is the way out for our desperate educated youths?"
Employment potentiality upto 45 percent still exists in the agriculture sector: Madhav Pise, also a resident of HSG society ie Silver coin Appartments in Dhayari, near Limaye Nagar. Originally from Belgaum and retired as an officer from SBI suggests: "Even now employment potentiality upto 45 percent still exists in the agriculture sector. Our central government should think over it seriously with innovative ideas of incentives to educated but unemployed youths. The present govt at the centre might have done a good job, but failure appears to be imminent in the case of unemployed, educated youths".
Not enough of formal education, but minting business! Oswal Cloth Stores in Dharwad was founded by Mohanlal Saremalji Bhandari (Oswal). The business is currently managed by his sons and partners: Santosh Kumar M. Bhandari and Anand Kumar M. Bhandari, and proper, formal education has no correlation with their thriving business!
Waste of time and money: When the elder son completed his matriculation, the father advised him to join a college and complete a B Com degree before entering the clothes business of the family. But the junior Oswal felt that if he joined college, the wastage would be on two counts, one time and second money. He immediately wanted to join the family business, but the senior Oswal sent him to Mumbai for ten months to serve as a salesperson there!
First in matriculation: The senior had the distinction of standing first in matriculation in 1962 with a score of 92 per cent in the then entire district of Dharwad. Before matriculation and later, he served for nine years in the Ghisulal clothes shop in Dharwad.
To the school only up to the second standard! Now the junior Oswal has got a daughter and son, who are grown-up twins. Their father sent them to school up to second standard and got them tuitions privately. The grown-ups are well-versed in five languages and are very fluent in English too. The family lives in a farm house with 22acre wet land. Interestingly, the girls students of Dharwad Agriculture College come to her for practical guidance on projects. The Oswals of Dharwad have employed sixty persons in their business.
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