Question

Give some suggestions to tackle the problem of unemployment in india

Answer 1

It is disturbing as well as distressing to find that the standard of living of man is still below the desired level and unemployment is on the increase. In order to meet the problem of unemployment, the following measures are to be taken:

i. According to Madan, the personal disabilities include illness, physical handicaps, old age and inexperience. The methods suggested to overcome these disabilities are socialized health services, adequate wage provisions to maintain health, vocational rehabilitation, vocational education and educational planning, workmen’s compensation and other social security schemes and new vocational opportunities.

ii. Planned development by accelerating industrialization, removing the deficiency of demand, stabilizing the rate of domestic investment and consumer demand can fight the problem of unemployment.

iii. Creating more employment opportunities in the rural areas through intensive farming, greater irrigation facilities, extension of community projects, organiza­tion of co-operative farming, development of village industry and settlement of agricultural labourers on the reclaimed land. Emphasis should also be laid on the development of small-scale and cottage industries to relieve the pressure on land. These not only help in creating employment opportunities but also check the rate of migration from rural to urban areas.

iv. According to Madan to eliminate seasonal unemployment, the manufacturers can take up the production of some other commodities in the slack season.

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v. Providing temporary work for those who have lost employment. In India, the surplus labour power can be utilized for various public works programmes, affor­estation and expansion of cottage industries and so on.

vi. The present education system needs a thorough overall check to meet the chang­ing pattern of demand not only through re-orientation but also by diversifying the courses in the field of commerce, trade, banking, insurance, technical and managerial personnel so that the adjustments of demand and labour in various occupations become easy.

vii. Development of small-scale and village industries can increase the rate of employment. For this, the government should guide the small-scale industries in financing and marketing.

viii. Self-employment schemes for the unemployed youth have to be launched to enable them to start their own business or small-scale firm, which can also generate employ­ment for many others.

The government has also launched some programmes namely Training for Rural Youth for Self-Employment (TRYSEM) and Jawahar Rozgar Yojana. Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana was introduced in August 1993 to provide self-employment opportu­nities to the educated urban youths. The Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) was designed to provide employment in the form of manual work in the lean agricultural season.

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