Unemployment – Key Concern Everywhere

Due to sweeping increase in students enrolling in the schools, colleges, institutes and so on, more young Bhutanese reach the level of ‘job hunter’. As soon as they reached the stage when they hold their certificates such as academic transcripts and all, they are eligible to apply for the job vacancies. Vacancy in our country is as low as the youth demanding for the employment.

When government going to intake only 538 graduates this year when there is more than 3500 graduates competing for prelims. It's really heartbreaking circumstances for us. If government take this many graduates, how would unemployment problem be wiped out. When private and corporations strive to recruit person with experiences, how 100% employment would be accomplished. This would be tough project for our Government to wipe out unemployment problem.

Why not Bhutanese youth are willing to take up business? Because, they feel monthly salary would be far better than doing business. They also feel that if business that they own would not do well. Who will bear the loss? That’s only notion for youth, today. Dignity of labor is not truly survived in such a small country.

But we wonder with prelims being scheduled on 11th August, vacancies being announced, criteria for vacancies are listed so, graduates in towns were already disappointed. Graduates of all aspects, Medical, Technical, Arts, Commerce, Science, Business, and others were worried how would 3500 plus graduates be recruited in job when vacancy is only hundreds.

To solve unemployment problems, we the youth must always handle with blue color jobs. Every job hunter roams and lingers in the streets of cities resulting to major social problems. The job hunters apply for jobs in various organizations with great hopes to get employed. But when few vacancies are battled by more than hundreds, some hang around in the city carrying Kidney and Rancho (Scarves) on their shoulders and a file full of academic transcripts and certificates. However, pitiable job seekers have nowhere to go rather hang out in towns and engage in redundant works. They are then forced by situation to come up with group-ism, which leads to societal problems in urban areas.

Graduates of previous years still waits for job, thousands of graduates of this year would also wait for employment, next year it would be double than this year. Then how unemployment problem would be solved? This is major question generated in mind of graduates and others such as classes 10 and 12 and diploma certificate holders.

Therefore, unemployment would remain forever problems in Bhutan with any change. Some few job hunters requested fan pages in face book for employment where it would not be possible. When job hunters wait so long holding certificates, accommodating with their parents, some with relatives and friends in Thimphu. Accommodation in Thimphu would be major concern for all job hunters without parents settled in Thimphu. Until and unless they are employed, they have to accommodate with relatives and friends where they have problem with them.

These problems would remain forever as major concern for job hunters. So, therefore, it would be better to encourage business for job hunters where they can make their living.