India's Biggest Problem in Upcoming Years

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No matter how much we shun the fact that India is in deep trouble, and in upcoming years – things going to get worse. It's not going to stop, problems are on their way. Earlier, I didn’t need to point out a single issue, which was troubling Indian citizenries but couldn’t stop myself thinking more about it. After all, I can never avoid reading newspapers, which, by some extent, make matter more pathetic for me. For instance, on a good day I read about three murders and two rape cases; and on a bad day, the running total is surely more than the above-mentioned numbers. With these horrific reports, I encounter with the Indian rupee fall against the American dollar, due to which, festive season (Diwali) is a little dry as people don’t have much cash-in-hand to shop. Day by day, problems for India is increasing. But one problem needs to addressed as quickly as possible.

The problem is of – Unemployment.

As I have named the problem, I would like to share an incident (most probably a news report). It is as recent as yesterday and must be fresh in your mind. It is the Amritsar Train Tragedy.

I assume that you know about the Train Tragedy as I write further. If you aren’t conscious about it, click here (to know more about it).

Two or three days later (after the tragedy), I was surfing for news reports on Economics Times or Hindustan Times (which application, I don’t recall) when I stumbled upon a sad and shocking report. It read – Injured robbed of belongings, even the dead weren’t spared after Amritsar Train Tragedy.  More or less, this clarifies that there are people in India, who rob dead people’s belongings. Also, people in India are immensely running out of jobs as there were people, who were busy recording videos of dead bodies. Instead of helping policemen and male nurses to carry the bodies of the dead. This incident shook me from inside and sent an alarming thought in my mind, which gave birth to a number of questions:

Have people lost sympathy for others? Is humanity coming to an end? Are people so jobless that they need to steal from cadavers?  Can’t they feel the pain of a dead human beings? Or their families?  

Well, these questions might remain unanswered for a long time. But I don’t care about that. What I care, right now, is about the families of people who died. They received compensations, but it won’t last forever. They know it too. Those families, with only one male member working, would they ever be able to earn a living for themselves without a qualification? In this world of Digital India and Make in India (a failed project), even the qualified people aren’t getting jobs and Indian rupee’s decline against the American Dollar – Foreign firms are hesitating to invest in India as they fear failure. Though India is a center of consumption for the world, one of the largest markets in the world, the forthcoming economic crisis is foreseeable. It might affect India’s balance of payment to an irrecoverable extent (cannot be certain about it), putting India into major deficit.

As you all know, everything is interconnected. But my major concern remains unemployment because of the following reasons:

•         Jobless people might create a nuisance, and it may encourage them to do illegal activities
•         Unemployment is a boon to terrorist organizations
•         Social discomfort to the youth
•        Eventually, it may lead to closing down of firms and banks
•        Lastly, (well everyone knows what happens next)

Agree or not, unemployment is increasing at a pace of bullet train. Even though we feel that the current situation is relatively better and sounds amazing in front of the possibilities mentioned above, even today, it has numerous side effects. One of the effects is competition in education, which every student faces.

If I had to conclude this article, I need not present a solution to this problem.

As far as I understand to the best of my capabilities, I see unemployment as a threat to humanity (in general). This problem, which I always say, must be addressed by the government at the earliest. Moreover, I would like to leave another fact on your table (that might leave you in awe) – which is - 82% of male and 92% of female workers earn less than Rs 10,000 a month. (Source is Official State of Working India report, which points out India’s incapability of converting economic growth into good jobs)

Thank you for reading! 

Amay Saxena!