Unemployment among educated youth is a countrywide problem. Our State is no exception. At Central and State level, the Governments are trying hard to overcome this problem. New schemes and programmes are floated to provide employment to the youth and make use of their creative energy in the interests of the community. It has been found that if educated youth are left unemployed, they tend to fall prey to social aberrations. That is not a healthy sign of a developing society. Therefore this matter has attained priority with the policy planners. Planning Commission has taken special measures for reducing the number of educated unemployed youth in the country in a time bound frame.
But notwithstanding this line of thinking, the employment scenario in our State is far from being satisfactory. According to reliable sources, there are about 70,000 vacancies in various departments of the Government. Two years ago the Government announced that these vacancies would be filled up on fast track basis. People thought that the Government would minimize the complicacies which recruitment to Government jobs carries with it, and the vacancies would be filled within a short period time. Together with it, the Government also announced that the educated unemployed who are registered with employment centres would be given unemployment allowance called Voluntary Service Allowance (VSA). Though the amount of allowance was just meagre, yet the unemployed youth rushed to register themselves and the figures shot up to 6.3 lakh. However, notwithstanding tall claims of the Government about fast tracking of recruitment, only 10,000 vacancies were filled in two years and the bulk of vacancies remain in place for two years and more. It indicates serious flaw somewhere in the system that hinders quick recruitment for available vacancies. Fast tracking has lost its significance to the unemployed youth.
Our investigation in the matter has revealed that at the level of three recruiting agencies of the Government, namely Public Service Commission, Service Selection Board and District Counselling and Employment Centres, it has become practically impossible to cope with the quantum of work to be done for processing the applications and in arranging interviews and proper completion of formalities. All this is time consuming affair. Moreover, the departments also take a long time in referring the vacancies to the recruitment agencies. The amount of VSA promised is too meagre to encourage a candidate for renewal of his registration. The result is that only 3.3 lakh unemployed youth have re-registered themselves with relevant authorities for employment. The Government should do some introspection in fast track recruitment process. It is so because the unemployed youth don’t find any change in the process of recruitment that existed previously. What hope can any message of the Government generate among the youth when during a period of two years and more nearly 65,000 positions continue to remain vacant while the educated youth remain unemployed. There seems some serious discrepancy somewhere in the system which needs to be addressed.
Fast tracking of recruitment announced by the Government needs is an important initiative and it to be explained and inducted in practice.
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