Pune July 28 ( FN Agency) Congress leader Satyajit Tambe has urged all relevant stakeholders and leaders to come together to solve the employment problem and understand the dire situation. Tambe has asserted that getting a job or not has no longer remained a personal issue for the youth but a social issue. “Youth employment has become a grave issue. Even students who have completed engineering or MBA are not getting jobs that pay more than rupees 10-15 thousand as their salaries. If you get such a job in a city far away from your home, the cost of the living space itself comes to around 8- 10 thousand, he added. Such youths are not able to save or invest,” said Satyajit Tambe, who has also been the former President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress.
Tambe also expressed the need for all the political parties to forget partisanship and work together on such an issue. “Such ironic is the state of affairs that while we say that youth do not have jobs, multi-national companies look for skilled youth. The education system should help the youth to acquire the necessary skills in today’s professional world by going beyond the degree. Even political party workers face the same problem. Therefore, everyone should think seriously about this issue,” he said. Tambe also mentioned that corona and layoffs have added more to this situation. According to reliable stats, unemployment in India rose by 23 per cent during the layoff period. Apart from that, according to the government data, more than 3.90 lakh Indians in the last three years have renounced their Indian citizenship by settling abroad.
“Therefore, joblessness or low-paying jobs is not a problem limited to that one person, but has become a social problem,” Tambe explained. To corroborate, Tambe drew attention to other social problems arising due to unemployment. “Parents spend lakhs for engineering but the youth is able to get only 12 -15 thousand jobs since only those are available. Moreover, many people’s marriages are also stalled due to the same issue of low-paying jobs,” he added. Taking a further cue, Tambe also reflected on the economic effects. “If the youth is unemployed or underpaid, their purchasing power reduces. It has an adverse effect on the market as well. In order to maintain economic equilibrium, a rise in purchase power is important. This possibility will seemingly stop due to this issue,” he concluded.