Unemployment -Devil for Economy

Unemployment is a serious problem not only for our country, but also for the advanced countries. The number of educated as well as uneducated unemployed people is increasing every year. In our own country, we find increasing unemployment in different fields. Thousands of B.As and M.As are as they cannot, even get the jobs of clerks, ordinary office workers and teachers. Thousands holding the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees cannot get jobs in their respective fields.

In Pakistan we find hundreds of thousands of unemployed laborers and farm workers in villages. The use of tractors and other machines on farms has made a numbers of villagers idle. Otherwise, too, most villagers are under-employed. They only work regularly and with effort when crops are being sown or reaped. For more than half of the year they do a little bit of work here and a little bit there, and then sit idle.

In the cities we find many thousands of unemployed labors and skilled workers. These people do manual work and generally earn daily wages. They are often unemployed for days and weeks together. The causes of this large-scale unemployment are many. First of all, the population of our country and other developing countries is rising fast. Our population is increasing by a few lakh each year. It becomes difficult to meet the needs of all the additional people.

The slow economic and scientific progress of the country is perhaps the greatest cause of unemployment. Because of slow industrial development there are not very much large factories and industrial centers where labors, skilled workers and fresh graduates can get employed.

When machines are used on farms in villages many labors and farmers become idle. Quite a few of them come to cities and the problem of unemployment here becomes much more serious.

Large scale unemployment has serious effects on the country’s production. Unemployed people do not take part in its industrial or agricultural production.

The government should open new factories and industries at as many places as possible. Unemployed labors and skilled workers will be able to work there. There should be more offices, scientific research centers, schools and colleges where our educated young men and women can work.

Unemployed people should be ready to do all sort of work. The students who cannot get proper jobs after their studies are over should be ready to work manually in factories and on farms.

Industrialists should expand their factories or set up new ones to provide work to a larger number of people. Landlord should cultivate more of their lands to provide work to unemployed labors and farmers. Small industries should be set up in villages. Increased industrial and agriculture production will cause an increase in the exports and trade of the country. A large number of employed people will get busy with export and trade.