Roughly half a million people took an annual test for a public service commission for a total of 281 jobs. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PATNA, India – The grubby lanes of Musallahpur, in the north Indian city of Patna, heave with the foot traffic, banners and vending carts familiar to commercial hubs across India. Here, though, the cacophony is directed toward a single goal: helping young people land a government job.
To make complicated aluminum castings that perform precisely at 200 mph , he needs workers who are willing to stay put, learn and earn. But he says he cannot find enough who are capable and reliable, from the country’s more impoverished north or anywhere else. So he was a week away from partially automating his plant – turning to machines in the hope of employing fewer humans.
Inside India, the long-term consequences of failing to match its young with adequate employment could be grave. The unmet desires of these workers, more educated and more indebted than ever, have become a volatile force. If India were to follow a traditional path to development, it would need a more robust manufacturing sector, economists say. But as bosses try to bypass their labour issues by opting for automation, India is tipping toward “premature deindustrialisation”, with manufacturing jobs vanishing before they have worked their usual poverty-alleviating magic.
So, in India, many young people aim not for the stars, but for stability. In Bihar, that means a government job, no matter how lowly. Even an under-registrar position in the Prohibition office, for instance, is a coveted prize. Mr Praveen Kumar, 27, is both a student and an employee at a Patna coaching centre. Though his parents never left their family farm, he earned a bachelor’s degree in math and moved between richer parts of the country, looking for work.
Since then, he has moved to Patna and tried to pass the exams four times. While studying, he earns US$110 a month doing video production work on lessons for students like himself. With that he manages to feed himself, his wife and their 4-month-old baby. What these businesses don’t have is a steady supply of reliable labor. Ramesh, the managing director at Alphacraft, the auto parts manufacturer, is optimistic about almost every aspect of his business. Orders are going up and shipping costs are being streamlined, and he sees growth prospects on three continents. His only problem: a workforce he cannot count on “because they are all coming from distant parts of the country.
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