Question

Suggest suitable measures to solve unemployment.

Answer 1

1. Educational change: Changes need to be made in the content of educational courses as well as the overall curricular experience. Academics need to develop mind sets that are open to change. The educational programmes on offer must become choice based, need-based and learner-centred. If educational programmes are relevant to community needs, local needs, industrial needs, they will help to develop useful human resources for needs in a changing world.
2. Skill Development: Much of what is learnt is knowledge-centric. While the role of knowledge is invaluable, there is a desperate need to also cultivate skills, especially those which are employment-worthy or those which can promote selfemployment, and develop entrepreneurial potential of the learners. For example, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), the salient feature of which is to enable institutions of higher education for capacity building in different fields of employment.
3. Vocational Training: The need for vocationalisation has been a long standing need. This will provide options for learners to branch into vocational programmes of study. The National Education Policy 2020 lays emphasis on integration of vocational training at all stages of education.
4. Industry-Education symbiosis: The encouragement of industry-university endeavours has been talked about, discussed and implemented in several institutions especially in areas of science, engineering, pharmacy, medicine, technology, media studies, fashion designing and management.
5. Entrepreneurship and Self Employment: The government has been encouraging Start Ups in various fields. This is a boost to those who are willing to take up challenges and risks, based on their personal strengths and training. Self-employment is one measure to minimise the extent of unemployment.