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.
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