AGARTALA, July 21 (TIWN): Growing unemployment has come to haunt the Manik Sarkar government with the number of jobless persons in the state crossing the six lakh figure.

Official statistics show that more than 6.5 lakh jobless persons had registered with the state-run employment exchanges in March, 2014. Of these,. -  59493 are below class viii, 248665 are class VIII passed, 195034 are madhyamik   passed, 66346 are Higher Secondary, 47199 are graduates, 9335 are post graduates, 303 are doctors, 2101 are skilled and other  37277.   

The Manik Sarakr  government has failed to give employment to lakhs of unemployed youths during hiss 15-year rule. How many more years will it take to give jobs to the youths?" asked senior Congress MLA from Gopal Roy.

 However, the number of unemployed will increase, if we include the educated unemployed youths from rural area of the state too as they are yet to register their names in employment exchange office.

Unemployment is a serious problem in the  state. Lack of industries, vocational/skill development training institutes, and absence of government policies are some of the reasons which lead to growing number of unemployed youths.

Now due to absence of job opportunities; unemployed youths are involving in unwanted activities which subsequently create law and order problem for the society. We cannot blame the government alone for lack of employment opportunities in govt. sectors, but the govt. must take up serious steps to help the unemployment youths to launch self-employment ventures in tourism, horticulture, and small scale industries etc.

If the unemployment problem is not tackled well then, the unemployed youths will go for negative activities like, drug addiction, suicides, the unrest& disorder. Beside this, also frustration will increase in the society.

Therefore, the duty of the government should make every possible effort to solve unemployment problem if not, the state will face serious problem in the near future.