By Mehwish mustaqeem Sialkot.
Senior Columnist
Unemployment is an economic term. Employment means occupation.To be engaged in doing something productive is to be employed. So unemployment means the absence of employment.When people are out of work they are said to be unemployed. Unemployment is a worldwide problem.Even rich and advanced countries like USA.UK and France suffer from unemployment.In the asian countries unemployment is at its highest peak. Pakistan is no exception.Unemployment is a social evil of far-reaching consequences.It spells starvation disease and death on its victims. They have no education no culture and therfore no concern for right and wrong good and evil. Dishonesty corruption crime sin and vices of all kinds prevail in a society where the population is unemployed on a large scale. Politically unemployment breeds discontent in the masses.votes are sold and bought. Revolutions and mob violence are the result of unemployment. People busy in finding out jobs for them cannot pay attention to their rights and duties are citizens. Moreover when a large portion of the population is unemployed no effort to increase the national income can succeed. The causes of this widespread unemployment are four.first our system of education does not suit our needs.Much attention is paid to general and liberal education.Our country is an advancing country and needs skilled hands.The teaching institutions produce a peculiar type of young man who hates manual labor.He is good for nothing except reading book and dreaming of high status in society.secondly our country is not much advanced in industry.We cannot absorb all our young men in factories.
Moreover they are not skilled. Thirdly in our country a few privileged persons are keeping all the key industries to then.If work and ieisure are equally distributed all men will have enough of work and enough of leisure but the educated young men and common men have neither the capital nor the opportunities to try their luck in business.Lastly in our country birth rate is very high.The resources of country are not enough to maintain such a large population.People are more and jobs are few. The result is unemployment.Keeping in view the consequences of this evil the government of pakistan is doing much.The internship scheme has been started.Every young man with a postgraduate degree will get 10,000 per month during training in some technical or professional institution.The national manpower council runs a national employment bureau which helps the pakistanis to get jobs.Jobs outside the country are provided by overseas employment corporations.Recently two youth employment services have been set up. They give vocational guidance to young people and assist them in finding jobs suited to their taste and ability.labour department has set up several .Technical training centers at various places and some more are being established.But in spite of all this much more is needed.Production should be stepped up in agriculture.The country should be industrialized to provide new channels of employment.
The concept of education should be changed.Planned distribution of wealth should be ensured. Population must be kept within reasonable limits.It is only after a long time struggle that we can get rid of this evil.
