Unemployment  

A person who does not have a work to earn livelihood is called unemployed person. Unemployment is a universal problem. Everybody faces it. Even the developed countries like Britain and America face it. Unemployment exist at two levels in our country. There are uneducated people who have no source of income in this country. Unemployment also exists among the educated people. This is very dangerous in its results.

Thousands of persons holding master's degree are out of job. There are numberless doctors, engineers and scientists who have degrees in their hands but, they are unemployed. Even people with foreign qualification wander aimlessly in search of jobs. There are many thousands of unemployed laborers, farmworkers in villages and workers in cities who are daily bread winners. Sometimes they do not get work for days and weeks together. 

Causes

The causes for the large scale of unemployment are many. First, our system of education is defective. It does not fulfill our social and economic needs. It aims at producing clerks and peons instead of technician and skillful workers. It needs scientists, technical hands and skillful workers. Our education produce young graduates who do not like to work with their hands. 

Secondly

Our country is not much advanced in industry. We have a few mills and factories. We cannot absorb all jobless peoples in these factories and mills. 

Thirdly, the industry of the country is controlled by a few privileged people. They do not let others share their experience and capital. If they make a little sacrifice, they can raise a network of industries in the country. The educated peoples have neither the opportunity not the capital to set up an industry. The industrialists can give an incentive to the educated people to set up new factories and mills. 

Fourthly, our population is increasing very fastly. It is very difficult to provide jobs to many people. They go on increasing every day and every year. Our country is underdeveloped and its sources are limited. Moreover, our country is ruled by feudal lords and capitalists. There does not exist just and fair distribution of wealth and other sources in the country. The country is sharply divided into two classes, have and have not. This is a sad state of affairs, but this is a bitter reality which we have to endure. 

Remedies

Large scale unemployment has very bad effects upon the progress of the country. Unemployed people do not take part in the development of the country. Moreover, the unemployed people in any society suffer from inferiority complex. They suffer from an agony that they are the worthless and good for nothing. Unemployment brings frustration and disappointment among the educated people as well as uneducated people. It brings in its wake hunger, starvation and disease. It produces a feeling of revolt among the unemployed. It should control population by family planning. It should open new factories, offices, research centers etc. where educated people can work. It should overhaul its education and produces useful members of society than idle degree holders. We can overcome unemployment to some extent by controlling the growth in our population and removing the defects to our system.