A few days back a news caught my attention. It was about the jobless figures recorded in the employment offices of Tamil Nadu.
Total
75,88,359 of these
Under 18 Years :
17,81,695
19-23 Years :
16,14,582
24-35 Years :
28,60,359
36-57 Years :
13,20,337
Above 58 Years :
11,386
These figures are disappointing. Specifically, they belong to Tamil Nadu, a reasonably developed state, not like Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. If unemployed people are encouraged to register themselves in more populated and less developed Uttar Pradesh or Bihar, then their exact figure will be mind-blowing.
unseen jobs Where are the jobs for the unemployed? They have disappeared from the common sight. On March 31, 2021, eight lakh seventy two thousand two hundred and forty three posts were vacant in the central government and the government filled only seventy eight thousand two hundred and sixty four posts. Nearly eight lakh posts are lying vacant! Jobs are everywhere, but we don't try to find them. Recently I heard a video of a conversation with Dr Devi Shetty, a renowned cardiologist who has established a chain of hospitals called Narayana Health. Here are some excerpts from a conversation with Dr. Shetty:
"We have a severe shortage of undergraduate and postgraduate seats. "If we go to the Caribbean region, there are thirty-five medical colleges that are training doctors for America. These colleges are running in a mall in an area of fifty thousand square feet and are producing excellent doctors. Why are we spending four hundred crore rupees (on a medical college) and building a building? This is ridiculous.
"One hundred and forty teachers are not needed to train a hundred students in medical colleges. One hundred and forty faculty members can run a medical college with one thousand students. That is, when the whole world has changed, but we have not changed.
"We have made medical education a matter of the elite class… Today children from poor families are not even able to dream of becoming a doctor. Tremendous results will be seen from this. All the extraordinary doctors in the world with magic in their hands, they come from underprivileged backgrounds, because they had the fire to work round the clock, to change the rules of the game.
"Why should a pregnant woman die every twelve minutes while giving birth to a child? Why should three lakh children die as soon as they are born? Why do twelve lakh children die who do not even celebrate their first birthday? This is not acceptable at all.
"We need two lakh gynecologists, we have less than fifty thousand, even half of them do not do obstetrics.… We need two lakh anesthesia specialists, whereas we have less than fifty thousand Huh. We need two lakh pediatricians to take care of children, but these too are less than fifty thousand. We need at least 1.5 lakh radiologists, whereas we have less than ten and a half thousand. "This country does not need extra budgetary allocation, but it needs to liberalize medical education and nursing and paramedical education."
liberal governments According to Dr. Shetty, thousands of jobs can be created in the health care sector alone with just a little effort. A similarly convincing argument can be made in sectors such as education, urban development, rivers and water bodies, forestry, animal husbandry, agricultural research and extension and food processing, where millions of jobs can be created and millions of people directly and indirectly affected. Jobs will come out for
Governments are cowards. They are afraid to create jobs, which are desperately needed in the government sector, because they themselves have deceived themselves by falling prey to the fallacy of 'small government is good government'. There is also a huge lack of information in the governments. As Dr. Shetty underlined, we are building memorials, not functional and self-sustaining medical colleges, while many women, children and victims die. Dr. Shetty's thinking about the conservative, timid attitude and wasteful expenditure can be seen in every department of the government. What we need to create jobs is to break the ruts like the 'Medical College in Fifty Thousand Sq Feet in Mall' that Dr. Shetty calls for.
need to innovate Fearless people have been blamed for many things, but they took the risk to do something new that had never happened before and in this venture they created wealth and created jobs. Gottlieb Daimler, Henry Ford, Kenjiro Takanayagi, Sam Walton, John Mitchell and Martin Cooper (Motorola) Think of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and their out-of-the-box initiatives that created millions of jobs There are many of them which were not there before.
The most important need of India is employment. The sectors that I have mentioned above have the potential to create millions of jobs, such as teachers, library workers, teachers of arts and crafts, trainers, laboratory technicians, designers, architects, town planners, engineers, forest guards, fisheries, livestock Medicine, milk producer, poultry, etc. MSMEs especially small and medium units are most important in generating employment and providing jobs.
Once employment opportunities are created, they will start their own cycle with virtue and issues such as related jobs, income, property, tax revenue, care for the environment, charity, support for art and literature, etc. But who is thinking about employment? Not the Union Health Ministry, right outside whose offices there is a huge opportunity waiting to be discovered. And not even the finance ministry, which has presented the Modi government's budget for 2022-23. In the budget speech of ninety minutes and one hundred and fifty-seven paragraphs, the word 'jobs' has been found only at three places!
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