As soon as school or college education is over,
young men and women run after Government or private jobs, more particularly for
‘white collar jobs’. They go on writing and writing various PSC interviews and
attending many coaching centers in order to
get a job of a petty clerk in any office whether it is in Kasargode or
Kanyakumari because they live in ‘comfort zone’ and avoid risks. But how many
of them get jobs? Do they get jobs to their satisfaction? No, not at all. The
truth is that ninety percent of these job seekers end in great disappointment
and tension due to the dullness in their jobs. They work only for the monthly
salary because they have no satisfaction in their works.
More over the number of job vacancies in either
public sector or private sector is dwindling day by day. Political parties
blame each other for the rising unemployment problems. It is the habit of
opposition parties in the state or Central government to accuse the ruling
party of betraying the youngsters by promising them employment and denied
opportunities. But as long as the reign of modern technology goes on,
unemployment problem ought to increase as all modern technological methods are
based on labor saving devices. It means all the productive, creative and skilled
works are being done by the machines. This leads to unemployment and the
consequent poverty and disappointment among the people. No government can help
us if we don’t help ourselves by starting our own business ventures. We cannot
expect ready made employment opportunities in offices and factories. It is not
the mistake of the governments, but the mistake of our modern technology.
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation had
foreseen the present situation and said
that mass production by gigantic labor saving machines cannot solve
India’s unemployment problem and
poverty. Instead, India’s economic progress depends on small scale
village industries which can provide employment to all people. This is called
‘production by masses’.
Let’s
examine the twenty five years of the industrial progress of the nations
including the rich as well as the Third world countries, of which India is one.
Every scientific and technological
progress makes the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. Wealth is being
accumulated in the pockets of the rich, whereas the poor is being unemployed
and live in poverty and misery. This is because, everywhere gigantic labour
saving machines are applied for work and all the skilled, productive and useful
works are done by the machines. Even in agricultural field, the old farmer and
his plough and the team of oxen are replaced by, gigantic machines such as
tractors, tillers, ploughing, sowing, seedling, weeding, harvesting and
winnowing machines have been introduced, eliminating working class from all
fields of work.
In such a situation, can we go back to the
old ways of farming and black smith’s shop? Is it possible? No, of course not
possible. Life is like a river. It cannot flow back. Similarly, science and
technology must go forward, but we have to reinvent our machines and redesign
its applicability with the help of modern scientific and technological
experiences to give more and more employment opportunities to our people, who
are at present unemployed.
Thomas
Aquinas, the great Italian scholar and philosopher said that human beings are
born to enjoy work with his/her own skillful
hands and clever brain. Human beings want to do creative, productive and
skillful work which gives him/her
immense pleasure. But now this work is the privilege of gigantic, labour
savings machines.
Therefore ‘self help’ is the best help the
youngsters can do in the modern age. we have to make small and elegant machines
and tools to work with. Every one should be his/her own employer and start
his/her small business enterprises. People have already started such
enterprises. In cities, housewives and men cultivate vegetables, paddy and
fruits on the terrace of their buildings and houses. A research scholar says
that in five cents of land, one can cultivate enough vegetables and fruits
worth Rs. five lakhs a year. These vegetables and fruits have great demand in
the market as they are cultivated with organic farming system avoiding
chemicals.
What you have to do is to change your outlook
on employment, and choose your own work according to your education, taste,
capacity, age, local space and availability of raw materials. Secondly you must get good training in the
skilled work. You have to throw away the ‘comfort zone’ attitude and accept
‘risk zone’ as your guide to work and the benefit is that you are your own
‘boss’ and employer. Self help leads to the path of self- reliance and self-
pride.
There
are many agencies, Central Government, state government and private
organizations conduct training centres and workshops for young men and women
and you will get perfect training and supervision from these agencies to start
your own ventures. There are many a number of avenues of work such as
agriculture, horticulture, fish farming, gardening, marketing, designing
textile fabrication automobile workshop,
hotel management, travel and tourism, mobile phone repairing and so on.
Now a
days many graduates and post graduates dream to get employed as a clerk or
officer in any branches of the Federal Bank Limited. But do you know how this
bank was started? It was the humble beginning of late Kulangara Paulo Hormis (
K.P. Hormis) a native of Mookannoor near Angamaly who was a lawyer by
profession, but was a failure in the law
court and decided to start self help. He was not disappointed, but worked hard
in another field. He ran a shop at Aluva many years ago. It was a one roomed
gold pawn shop and the board says “ Loan will be paid on the security of gold”.
In course of time, when more and more customers came to him and his gold pawn
business thrived, his enterprise grew up to one of the most famous scheduled banks of India
known as ‘The Federal Bank Limited’ spreading out thousands of branches all
over India and abroad, giving employment to lakhs of graduates and post
graduate men and women. The present headquarters of the Federal Bank is
situated where Hormis had started his gold pawn shop. K. P. Hormis has proved beyond doubt that self
help is the best help a man can provide to others around him.
If our
principal Mr. Prabhakaran, after his education, had gone to work as a clerk in
any government department, Nalanda College would not have been materialized and
remained a dream. Instead of seeking a white collar job in any office, he
worked hard starting with a humble tuition center in a rented room, gradually developed into a premier college teaching thousands of
students and giving employment to hundreds of graduates and post graduate
teachers. He teaches us the beauty of self help.
Now our
Government of India introduces various loan schemes for a young graduate or
under graduate or post graduate who want to start their own enterprises. Loan
schemes such as Prime Minister’s Kousal Vikas Yojana, Prime Minister’s Ujjal
Yojana, Prime Minister’s Employment generation Yojana and so on and besides
various nationalized banks in India have many generous loan schemes to help
young entrepreneurs. Kjt/-09-02-2019
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