Delhi Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday said that there is a high rate of joblessness among country's youngsters, while lakhs of Government posts are lying vacant at same time due to non-recruitment. The Minister stressed need to formulate a national policy in order to tackle issue of unemployment.
Addressing a two-day national-level conference on employment, Rai said, "The need of hour is to formulate a national employment policy to solve problem of unemployment.
Our country is facing a dreadful crisis of unemployment as young people are knocking on doors for work, despite having advanced degrees." The governments, instead of generating employment opportunities, are not filling up vacant posts, leading to resentment and anger among the youngsters, he said, citing incidents of lathicharge on people demanding that recruitment exams be held on time. Rai said absence of a national policy on employment for seven decades since independence has led to a high rate of unemployment and exacerbated economic challenges for the country.