Unemployment in India ?
India maybe considered a rising power with large number of
qualified job aspirants entering the workforce every year. But the hard reality
which many do not say in the open is issue of employability of these aspirants.
There are thousands of students and professional out of
college & professional institutes every year but many of them are really
good enough to do the job that’s awaiting them.
Instead of IIM and IIT graduate only a small percentage of
student coming out of these institutes are really qualified to take up the real
challenges of work. Rest are bookish geniuses who have come well with their
scores
According to survey conducted by FICCI and Ernst & Young
paper, even though over 40 million people are registered in employment
exchanges only .2million get job annually. Event Starting is the fact that
about 80% of the workforce does not possess identifiable marketable skills
Equally sad is the fact that the school drop-out rate in India
touched to 56.5 % by the time student reach the qualifying examination at 10th
Standard which further leads to employability
The survey found that only 25% of Indian professionals are
considered employable’ by multinationals the difficulty of employers in India
to fill job vacancies has creased 67% in 2011
Compared with 16% last year
Although it was difficult to accept, academia an d industry
leaders have now accepted this fact and are making effort to end the demand and
supply mismatch
The fact is Germany has 75% Skilled workforce and the UK 68%
compared to India which accounts 2% so why we blame unemployment when the issue
is un-employ-ability
About 60% of India’s 1.2 Billion people are in the working age
group however 10% of them 300 children in India between the age group will pass
and go beyond, only 5% of Indian labour force in the age group of 19-24 years
is estimated to have formal tanning said by S Ramadorai Adviser of Prime Minister,
Understand the issues, we have to start working on vocational education framework
to be more competitive and acceptable the world market
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