India has been biased on the idea of doing only the respect jobs. As it has been clearly established our country’s obsession with 9 to 5 formal jobs can be dated back to a few decades ago. Entrepreneurial jobs aren’t given much significance and are often left for the less educated or below average brains while the intelligent and hard working candidates are expected to do a degree in either engineering or medicine and settle for a 9 to 5.
India’s obsession with these two fields is getting crazy day by day with parents pushing their children to extremities to make sure that they pass through the exam so much so that some students even resort to commit suicide in order to avoid this vicious cycle when the pressure becomes unbearable. This cycle is constant for people of all backgrounds whether they are the employees of a multi-national company or a minimum wage worker, all of them want their respective children to work as a formal employee in a 9 to 5 job. “If they are educated, they shouldn't have to do menial jobs” , is the basic mindset amongst such people.
The fact that India has somehow managed to render education for anyone and everyone is commendable. But the basic problem remains the same that with the immensely growing population there isn't enough job opportunities for the graduates. A growing population of young people becomes an asset only when it has the skills to become an economically productive segment of society. Otherwise, it ends up being an economic burden, consisting of more mouths to feed.
Education and development of skills will go a long way in ensuring that large chunks of future generations don't end up the same way. To do that, the government and corporate sector will have to join hands. In order for India’s growing population to be converted into an asset we’ll have to render them with a larger variety of job opportunities so that each and everyone gets an opportunity of having a settled and stable job.
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