There are 4.5 crore unemployed in the country who have registered in the Employment Exchanges and waiting for job, according to a reply given in the Parliament on 4th December 2014.

This is but only a small part of the unemployed in the country. There are many more who have not registered. Earlier the jobs in the government were increasing and there was expectation among the unemployed that today or tomorrow they may get a job in Government. That is almost gone now, since the jobs in the government are being reduced continuously. Many of the government departments have been privatised, jobs are reduced and the vacancies are not filled up. Government is gradually withdrawing from many of its responsibilities.

Take the case of Department of Telecom. There were six lakh workers twenty years back. Service section of DOT was corporatised in to BSNL in 2000, when there were 3,50,000 employees. Within the next 14 years, it has been reduced to about 2,35,000. More than 50% staff has been reduced.

This is the position with Department of Posts, Railways, Defence and other central government establishments.

It is reported in the press that a person who has registered in the employment exchange 30 years back got the job and within a short period retired. He could not any pension since he did not have the minimum service for the same.

The case will be worse now. There will be lakhs of people who will never get a job and will ‘retire’ even with out a job. What is the government going to do to improve the worst situation?