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by vishnugupta
1324 days ago
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Purely anecdotal, please don’t ask me for data, sources etc. It seems to me the government is doing a good job of supporting those at or below abject poverty. There are food security programs, free medical aid, education, and I guess even housing. Of course the poor have to wade through bureaucratic and corrupt system. But with digitization it’s getting fixed to an extent. That said, the huge challenge I see is in the so called middle class segment. For a reasonably educated person the jobs just don’t exist any more. So the mullion of people who join the work force every year have to fight for a few thousand jobs. And they live their life precariously, just one or two jolt away from falling back into poverty. For a vacancy of 10 clerical posts tens of thousands jobless people turn up, some of them way over qualified. This cohort is really getting disillusioned and is easy to manipulate and radicalize. India is a hugely complicated, vast, and diverse country, it can’t be comprehend by one person or even group. So you will come across all kinds of contradicting views all of which could well be true simultaneously. |
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This seems more like propaganda. I come from a small village. No one in the village is jobless, or hard pressed to meet basic necessities. In fact there is acute labor shortage in agriculture. I have a cousin who probably failed in his 10th grade. He picked up some driving skill, and works in one of the road construction companies. He recently got fired because he wanted to work from a different place, and the company didn't have an opening in that place. He found a similar job at his preferred place within a week. He has his own car, and saved enough to start a side gig setting up a pharmacy where he employs couple of people.
There is no dearth of work for people willing to work, and are flexible. It's a different matter if someone wants to find a cushy government job.