Job Starvation Stalks Bihar

Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi say there in no vacancy for the chief ministerial post in Bihar. There are always vacancies for the top executive posts whenever a state or the country goes into an election mode.

But of course, there are very few vacancies for jobs for the youths in Bihar, either in the private or the government sector. The private sector is more in a dry zone in Bihar. In the name of industries, closed and dilapidated factory buildings dot the state. The NDA realised it when employment, migration and the absence of factories in the state became a poll agenda frontend by Prashant Kishor of the Jan Suraaj.

Amit Shah at an election meeting promised to the youths that the NDA would start a new era of industrialisation after it came back to power. The NDA in its manifesto has promised a factory in each district. Even the NDA candidate, muscleman Anant, at present jailed in the Dularchand murder case, told a reporter that if elected he would request the new government to open a good school and a hospital in Mokama where he was fighting from.

Coming back to the job vacancy draught in the state, employment is available only in the police department and the administration.  Hundreds of boys and girls in the morning or evening walks towards local play grounds, including the Gandhi Maidan in Patna, for physical training.

A number of physical training outfits have come up to train them coaching outfits for preparing students for clerical and executive jobs in the administration is a thriving business in the state. In the absence of jobs in the frontier technology sector, government job is a craze among the youths.

Though the vacancies in these departments are few and far between, jobs seekers are in millions, creating a situation of the youths making a chimeric chase.