Has the india government failed on its promise to provide jobs for new entrants to the labour market?

  As media coverage increases and the opposition makes a lot more noise about it, unemployment will become a much larger issue going forward. In particular, the large number of engineering graduates who are likely to be unemployed over the next two years. In the meanwhile, the government can only hope that the economic recovery is complete and many more jobs are created to hire this bulging group of unemployed Indians.

    The World Economic Forum ranked India at 65 out of 130 countries in its development of ‘skill for your future’ index. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), that has been tasked with skilling 150 million youth in partnership with the private sector, has so far skilled a little over 5.1 million people and has managed to get just over 1.5 million placed. According to official data, NSDC trained 557,000 people in 2016-17 under the flagship programme, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, but managed to place only 63,000.

     Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has said that unemployment is one of the major threats to the growth of the nation. Rahul, while addressing students at the Princeton University on 20^th  September, added that New Delhi needs to work on providing adequate education and health facilities to all its people, irrespective of whether they are rich or poor.

"The central question is how India gives its people jobs. If you, as a modern country, are unable to give your people jobs, it's very difficult to give them a vision. Everyday nearly 30,000 new youngsters come into job market. 450 jobs are being provided today," he said.

   An unemployed couple living in Mumbai committed suicide. The couple ended their lives by hanging from ceiling of their house on 23 sep 2017. The police have taken both the dead bodies in its custody and have sent them for the post-mortem. The couple tied the knot just a few months back. After marriage, Dhanraj lost his job and was in depression since then.  

(News source:  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/city/mumbai/unemployment-forces-couple-to-commit-suicide-in-mumbai/videoshow/60805976.cms ) 

  It is the responsibility of the State to provide work to the people. But the number of the unemployed persons in India is increasing at an alarming rate. More than one-third of the total population still lives below the poverty line. The number of registered unemployed, not to speak of those whose names are not in the register is quite shocking. The number of job seekers also on the register of employment exchanges is increasing by leaps and bounds. There are three classes of employment here. In the villages those people who live on agriculture work for four or five months in a year, idle away the rest of the time. During that period they practically remain unemployed. In the towns and cities there is another class of unemployed people who find no employment in the factories due to the setting up of big machines there. Lastly, there are a large number of educated people who are unemployed. The masses, the uneducated and even the illiterate adopt some way or the other by means of which they can earn their living. The educated, however cannot do this. Problem of employment among educated youth is a serious one. For every vacancy, there are dozens of applicants. Out of many candidates who are interviewed, only few gets the job. A student dedicates several years of his life in studies. It is a worry-some condition that even after getting Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree,  these youth population of India are facing unemployment problem.