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Unemployment problem hits Tripura
TIWN June 29, 2019

AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): According to media and official data records Tripura is the state which tops in unemployment amongst all the 29 states of India by 2018-19. However, Tripura’s unemployment rate is a major problem for the Governments who ruled the state and the state has been consistently topped in unemployment rate for many years. The data displayed in Website shown Gujarat is having the Lowest Unemployment rate with only 10unemployed out of thousand. After Gujarat, Karnataka is having the second less unemployment rate with 15 and Chattishgrah is 3rd with 19. On the other side, latest Annual Employment Unemployment Survey conducted by Ministry of Labour and Employment shows that Kerala has the highestUnemployment Rate (UR) of 12.5 per cent.This is a shock for Kerala which always had low grade of unemployment rate. Industry-less Tripura’s rural unemployment is a major concern with 203 per 1000 and in urban areas it is 172 per thousand. BJP Govt at Centre led by the then Finance Minister in February 2018 had promised to allocate 50,000 Govt jobs to Tripura’s unemployed youths which has been ended by 1377 only.

With the rise of population and alleged insufficient policy of the Govt of India likely to take the country at a major crisis era.  In Tripura the unemployment problem is also the biggest challenge for the State Govt which is now hitting at 30.2% unemployment rate. India's rate of unemployment doubled in the past two years, according to the State of India’s environment 2019 (SoE) This has particularly affected young graduates.

SoE in figures was released by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on World Environment Day. The data for it has been provided by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), New Delhi.

Young Indians (aged 15-24 years) constitute nearly a fifth of India’s total population, according to the country’s 2011 Census. By 2020, they are predicted to make up a third of the country’s population.

The report notes that the youth (between 20-24 years), who constitute around 40 per cent of India's labour force, have an unemployment rate of 32 per cent.

The unemployment rate among the educated is even worse. The rate among people with at least a graduate degree was 13.17 per cent in September-December 2018, up from 10.39 per cent in May-August 2017.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2017-18 released by National Sample Survey Office too shows that unemployment rate increased with education level.

According to SoE in Figures, 2017, a major cause for high unemployment rates in India is the lack of skills required for jobs that are available. This is worrying because India is a young country — home to 20 per cent of the world's young population — and a major portion of this young workforce, though educated, is unskilled.

Official figures validate this. The Union Ministry Of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship says 4.69 per cent of India’s total workforce is formally skilled, as against 52 per cent in the United States, 68 per cent in the United Kingdom, 75 per cent in Germany, 80 per cent in Japan and 96 per cent in South Korea.

So why do young, educated Indians have poor job skills? One reason is that India has a limited number of quality institutes in spite of growth in the number of higher education providers.

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