Ours is a
nation with the largest young population the world. This youth of our nation
today is full of aspirations. We have built several stories around them and
announced ourselves as the future superpower of the world. All these prophecies
are based on the growing GDP of our nation, which is just a number, hardly
indicative of the living standard of the citizens. The country is rife with scams;
there is utter distrust in the ruling class and lack of dynamic leaders.
Within the
last two decades we have seen tremendous growth in the country. The IT sector
has seen a boom and purchasing power of people have increased many-fold. We are
also home to the largest under 25 population in the world. This population has
seen this growth in front of them and hence is full of desires and aspiration.
But this
quench for success has largely remained unfulfilled for a large section of this
population. Unemployment and underemployment is what has engulfed this
generation. The sudden boom in the number of skilled professionals has not been
absorbed. With manufacturing struggling to find its feet and compete with
global behemoths like China, IT is the only major employer in the nation. A
slowdown in IT meant that a large population of these aspiring youth had to
fend for themselves. Many ended being underemployed, taking up unskilled jobs.
The worrying
sign is that the future looks bleak too. A staggering 17 lakh persons applied
for 1500 posts of a SBI PO . It’s a job which is in no ways the most lucrative
or the most glamorous one in India. For an average job an Indian has to compete
against 1100 of his peers. The messiahs
of the nation, painting glossy images of the nation in front of the world
should look at these figures and ponder. This is not how you become a
superpower but a nation ripe for revolt.
At this
instance we need a leader who is dynamic yet sensitive to the youth of our
nation. We need someone with common sense and not economic degrees to realize that
strategies are going wrong and that there is unrest in today’s youth. An
analysis of nations with unrest, like Yemen, Mali, Syria, Egypt, will tell you
that if this continues the youth will revolt!!!!!
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