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Why is educated
pot problem
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There are competing narratives about the significance of ‘official’ unemployment rates on the larger canvas. For example, writing for Hindustan Times, Manish Sabharwal says, “everybody who wants a job has a job; they just don’t have the wages they want or need.” However, it is also true that despite Jaitly’s claims, there is a growing consensus that job creation has not kept pace with the numbers of those seeking employment. But a related and bigger concern, as pointed out by Sabharwal and many others, is underemployment.
There is also no doubt that, contrary to the minister’s assertion, social agitation is taking place across the country. However, as Nitin Pai wrote in The Print in response to Jaitly’s remarks, it is fortunate that social protests have so far primarily involved people making political and economic demands of the government and “generally not crossed into the dangerous territory of challenging the authority of the state.”