Causes For Unemployment In India

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In a general sense, unemployment is a situation characterised when any one is not gainfully employed in a productive activity. It means that an unemployed person is one who is seeking any work for salary but is unable to find any job suited to his capacity.

Here are some causes for unemployment in India :-

1. Lack of irrigation facilities
In some areas, agriculture is a gamble of monsoon. Because of the lack of irrigational facilities, large area of land grows only a single crop in a year. Therefore, farmers remain unemployed for a number of days in a year.

2. Explosive population growth
India is experiencing an explosive population growth since 1951. In fact, population increased at a rate it of 2.5 percent annually. Therefore, employment situation has adversely affected in two ways, firstly increasing the number of labour force, and secondly reducing the available resources for capital formation.

3. More emphasis on capital intensive techniques
In India, capital is scarce and labour is available in surplus quantity. But it has been observed that not in industrial sector, also in agriculture sector, stress is being on capital intensive techniques of production. Thus, surplus labour results in large number of unemployment.

4. Defective education system
The education system in our country simply imparts general and literary education devoid of any practical content. In fact, no sincere efforts have been made to develop the educational system in accordance to the manpower requirements of the economy.

5. Decay of cottage and small scale industries
The traditional handicraft has a glorious past and was the main source of employment specially to the village craftsman, artisans as well as non- agricultural workers. Unfortunately, most of rural traditional crafts have been ruined due to tough competition from the machine made goods. Consequently, these labourers are out of job.

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