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Essay on unemployment. “People at any economy desiring work but not finding it according to their qualifications is called unemployment.” —Lord Keynes.
“Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness.”Unemployment has become a chronic feature of modern societies everywhere
It has become very acute in our country and assumed such a horrifying shape and dimensions that even talented administrators and educationists are finding it hard to find a suitable solution for it.
Our development plans have completely failed to provide a reasonable level of employment for our countrymen. The number of unemployed persons on the live registers of the employment exchanges in India at the beginning of 1989 was around 306 million which has since crossed 400 million in 1999.
This figure includes not only matriculates and graduates but even post-graduates and highly qualified engineers. In fact over the years, our unemployment problem has become most intractable.
Unemployment in India is of varying kinds and degrees.
1. Open or Structural Unemployment:
People desire to work but there is no work for them. This kind of unemployment is called open or structural unemployment which occurs due to increasing population and people’s migration towards cities.
2. Disguised Unemployment:
In this type of unemployment people seem employed but in reality is that they are underemployed and their productivity is zero. They do not get help in increasing their production.
3. Seasonal Unempioyment:
In parts of India cultivation is not done through out year, so farmers remain unemployed for a few months. Seasonal unemployment is also found in industrial centres like, sugarcane industry, cold drinks, crackers industry etc. In those industries people get employed for special seasons only.
4. Cyclic Unemployment:
When the demand decreases for certain categories of workers, there is cyclical unemployment in India; such type of unemployment is found in cotton industries.
5. Frictional Unemployment:
Many times, people become unemployed as they have finished the work assigned to them. They try to learn new job but during this period for sometimes they remain unemployed. This is called frictional unemployment.
In western countries it is not a serious problem as they have the facilities of training those who want to learns new jobs. But in India due to lack of such facilities frictional employment is a major problem.
6. Technological Unemployment:
It occurs when we employ modern techniques to save labour. It is hard to modernise our industries but once this process starts we should not lose sight of human element.
7. Sudden Unemploymen:
Many times due to absence of rains, many villagers suffer from drought and famine. Famine causes heavy loss due to such unemployment.
Unemployment is the state of being not put to any use or profit or it simply means the state of being out of work. The problem of unemployment has aggravated over the years. The valuable human resource is not being put to proper use.