Also read\u00a0India\u2019s Employment Crisis takes a turn for the worse with E-Commerce Industry Losses<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The problem can be seen in a recent recruitment listing for a municipal sweeper job,<\/strong> which is basically the job of a janitor at a municipal corporation in Kanpur, which is a city located in India\u2019s most populous and underdeveloped states of Uttar Pradesh. Approximately 3000 vacancies were advertised with a monthly salary of around $200-300. This received job applications of over 500,000 which implies a ratio of more than 150 to 1. The more surprising thing was that this job, which required no education qualifications at all got application from highly educated people. Some of the applicants are post graduates, showing the acute job crisis that India faces. About 93% of MBA graduates earn less than $2000 a year<\/a> in India!!<\/p>\n White collared work in India<\/strong> for lower skill levels is so bad paying that it makes sense to do blue collar work. You can get engineers and MBA\u2019s to work on less than $200 a month, which implies that it might make more sense to work as a household help or a cleaner, where one has the opportunity to earn ~$300 a month. Janitors in Indian government will also get job security, which is a mirage for most of India\u2019s workforce. Note more than 85% of the work is in unorganized sectors without any formal contracts in India.<\/p>\n While the new Indian government has made massive efforts to boost employment, it remains to be seen how many jobs it can create. With a million new people entering the work force every month, it is a huge challenge to provide decent jobs, which can provide above poverty level wages. India\u2019s agriculture sector which has around 600 million people working on it could easily do with a much smaller workforce. But this huge population cannot find decent jobs in the services and industrial sectors<\/em>. The governments\u2019 \u201cMake in India<\/strong>\u201d policy cannot hope to provide a fraction of the required jobs, even if it succeeds given the huge demand supply gap. Services can absorb a large chunk,<\/a> but that would require focusing on skills as well as agreements with other countries that would allow easy exports of services and people.<\/p>\n India<\/strong> probably needs radical solutions like tying up with countries like Japan<\/em><\/strong>, which need people to fill the gap of its declining population. Resettlement of large chunks of the population will not be possible, given that most of the earth\u2019s landmass is already settled. Britain managed to capture large chunks in the 17-18th<\/sup> century, occupying and capturing huge land masses such as Australia and USA. The other European countries such as Spain, Portugal captured large chunks of South America. The only places left are Antarctica which is too cold for human settlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unemployment Crisis in India We have said a number of times that employment and underemployment remains India\u2019s biggest problem and it has no easy solutions. Despite [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-green-stocks-greeninvest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Educated Indians applying for a janitorial job<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMake in India & Service Industry<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Resettlement of Indian Population<\/strong><\/h3>\n