Jobless youths committing crimes

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Jobless youths committing crimes

Friday, 16 November 2018 | K Ravi

Students and youths are facing serious hitches after they have passed out of schools, colleges and universities. This should be the time for the greatest happiness in their life but it is the vice versa in our State. After passing out, our young people face frustration, depression, pressure and anxiety.

This is the dilemma that students face in Odisha. With unemployment come despair, hopelessness, brokenness and depression. They become addicted to drugs and alcohol which in turn creates problems for their families and society, too.

They are crying for jobs to make a living and to support their family but jobs elude them.

 The youths are voiceless and have no platform to make their tragedy and misfortune felt in the public domain. I am quite sure that every household has one or more unemployed young persons. It has become a disease which is proliferating in our State, but no one really cares. Not especially those who have not experienced such travails in their homes.

We are now living in very selfish times and care only for ourselves. We have become selfish and indifferent about the problems of others.

The politicians we have elected have turned a blind eye to the critical problem of unemployment. The Government on its part seems to encourage only blue collared jobs not the white collared variety.

Should the Government not think about start up capitals for youths especially the poor and downtrodden so that they can start their own small businesses? The Government seems to pay a deaf ear.

 As a society, we should be the voice of the voiceless. But very few speak up for real issues. I strongly believe that it is high time for the Government to seriously address the issue faced by our youths.

The people of Odisha can no longer remain silent spectators to this issue of unemployed youth. Many of them are now roaming in the streets of our localities with a desire for a job just so they can survive and add to the family income.

If our young people commit crimes and become law-breakers, can we blame them entirely? This I feel is the most neglected issue in the State. Let us as concerned citizens not take this issue lightly but engage with the Government on the need to think out of the box to create job opportunities and to skill our youths on the market needs.

Our youths have the right to live with dignity but how can they without jobs?

(The writer, a resident of Bhubaneswar, is a freelancer and regular contributor to the Letter to Editor column. Mob: 9437616497)

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