Unemployment is a state where people do not have a job, have seriously looked for a work in the past but has no avail where the money is rewarded to their service. However, people with disability and those who doesn't seriously hunt for a work are excluded and are called dependent.
Today, unemployment is a serious issue and growing concern among the youth. It's an alarming situation that gives burden to the government in bringing immediate solution. Being unemployed is a serious curse but worse than a disease. It weakens physically as well as mentally that eats up the vitality of the youths. It futile the hopes and shatter the dreams that was set up from many years. The situation may further worsen and slip out of control; that will frustrate the young talented graduates and compel them to involve in anti-social activities like robbery,gang fight,sexual harassment and substance abuse. Ultimately, this will creates a disharmony in the society and incur a huge loss to the government handling the problem.
The general rate of unemployment stand at 2.6% with thousands of young graduates are left unemployed. This is not surprising that the government want to achieve the full employment rate not with the level of education but with skills and talent of the job seekers. The irony behind is it should be well equipped that the young and fresh graduates with minimum work experience, course training, interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work in a team with the level of their education. The loophole is created here where mismatch between job seekers and available jobs is created. The entire course in the institutions and colleges should consider and redesign to meet the gap. Besides, the learning approach and atmosphere should change in comply with the requirement in jobs sphere.
Annually, thousands of general and technical graduates are being produced. All are in hunt for a lucrative job, want only white collar job. They want to settle down promptly with comfortable shelter and want to look after their parents. However, only handful of them are absorbed as a civil servants and rest in NGOs, CSOs and Corporations. These were mainly attributed to the low salary and status, parents’ objection, poor working environment, and location of workplace. Notwithstanding to this nepotism and pre-selection of candidate is a malady that bureaucracy involved into corruption where competent youth are not selected through an interview. But an overwhelming majority of youth preferred desk jobs than the blue collar jobs that makes unemployment rate still high.
The Constitution of Bhutan clearly reflects that equal job opportunities should be given to both genders, as per their capabilities be it in any place. This arise the question regarding the unemployment in the rural areas where most of the competent youth with economically disadvantaged family are left unemployed. The political parties take full responsibility to look after them pledged to give job bagging the support and vote during the election. The ruling party had promised full employment as their political mandates and come up with new initiatives on employment promotion & facilitation programs, such as Guaranteed Employment Programs, Direct Employment Scheme, Employment Skills Programs and Overseas Employment Scheme. However, the youth are not attracted with these scheme due to security reasons as many of they have fallen prey to unscrupulous practices of consultants that jeopardize their career ahead.
As a graduate, who would also put the first hand experience and face hurdle not less than a few months later. These are some of the collective thoughts and observations I have made before. Infact, time has come nearer to face all those challenges and take opportunity sometime. As a educated and learned man; one must change notion that everything cannot provide by government. As old proverb says-"Self help is the best help". One should find out the own means by applying the collective theories into practice just to make a life brighter and solve the unemployment problem together.
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