If any politician can be honest enough then they will accept that biggest challenge they face on a day to day basis is people seeking jobs from them for which most of the time they have no solutions but cannot say it openly. Thus if we multiply all the politician into this ‘constant’, we will find that the Government also gives a blank look vis-a-vis the number of jobs it is able to create. So employment is a hot issue that no one wants to tread, but best they can do is the ‘lip service’.

Hope is a big business and politics survive on giving hope to the people it serves or rather misserves. It is better to give people the full truth than falsehood, but somehow the old joke about the politician, which is becoming almost an adage, that ‘Politician are 99% false and 1% doubt’. The brand image created by the political class is making of their own. In the case of employment, they are in a dilemma of hopelessness and helplessness but never could gather the courage to accept it.

It is imperative that governments of the day start communicating with its people the truth and guides the citizen to become employable and skilled in order to get better opportunities in private sectors as well as prepare for Government competitive exams and not to accept a back door entry through the greedy hands of middleman and political classes. The Government needs to seriously declare that ’employment’ is the biggest problem and the second topmost priorities after government-funded social schemes.

After 70 years of Independence, most of the population of India survives on social schemes of the government. It will be judicious if we can create a goal that on the 100th year of our Independence, we should have most of our population self sufficient, productive and employed.

Each State Governments should concentrate on creating an ecosystem that directly or indirectly fuels job creation thereby creating healthy economic and living conditions.

Private sector jobs should be considered as employment in the government data and a system of developing higher salary index in the respective region should be a priority of the government. Governments should keep a close watch on private sectors, implement existing labour laws in the true spirit, encourage private sectors with some recognition and encouragements, incentivise good entrepreneurs through awards and facilities, create an employment card for each citizen by making the private sector update the records. This can be a mandatory parameter for trade licence etc. of a business unit. We should make it mandatory even for the smallest two-member business unit and keep track of the system under local SDO/DM/DC.

If we can develop FastTag for each vehicle mandatory because the government will get revenue why will it be an upheaval task to track their citizen’s work profile. The government should not bend their head low but face the reality of unemployment with the determination, grit and courage as the rulers of the government fight elections with the do or die attitude, where money, muscle and strategy works at the full potential.

Creating employment is the responsibility of the government and we need to create a paradigm shift on how best we can create opportunities. Skill initiative is one of the steps towards such goals. Elections of the future will be fought on such issues like employment, sustainable goals, health infrastructure, development politics and living standards etc. We would like to see issues of religion, language, caste, corruption taking the back seat.

The clock is ticking and ‘we the people’ should make the political class wake up from their treacherous slumber and indifference on employment…