BENGALURU: 21^st June 2016 was celebrated as International Yoga day with great pomp and show! Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Yog Guru Baba Ramdev, and many other dignitaries attended this event to make India happy and healthy through yoga. On the same day, some 2,500 applications for a job were received by The Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC). The commission is going to conduct a written exam this August for the same. The applicants included five candidates with MPhils, 253 postgraduates and 984 graduates among others (three claps for our education system, so many highly literate scholars!). You may be thinking that the job is that of a researcher, teacher, manager or councilor! Sorry to disappoint you, but all these applications had come for a Grade D job, specifically a porter! (Three claps for Indian employment scheme)

Alas! Our PM could not demonstrate any “Yoga-asana” for getting a job, and while everyone was busy in stretching their body, employment crisis in Maharashtra was ignored. What’s really amusing about this incident was that mere 177 applicants were actually not over-qualified for this job with education lesser than the SSC level.

There have been these cases in the earlier years as well in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, where over-qualified scholars have applied for a job of a peon under government. It can be said in that case that unemployed youth would have considered money over their job role, but this is entirely different! A porter has to do a lot of physical work just to buy his family a handful of groceries. Thus, the problem of unemployment in India cannot be ignored! "Why would a degree holder want to become a porter? Unemployment probably makes them think something is better than nothing," added Counsellor Vivek Velankar.

The problem of unemployment is taking a humongous shape right now, and government has to act to eradicate it! Though government launches a new initiative every fortnight, little has been done by them when it comes to implementation. It has been all talk and no show up till now! May be if our HRD minister will give more attention towards the unemployed scholars all across India rather than the revolting scholar in JNU, that will help!

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