----------------------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph:2252660 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job-seekers keeping away from Employment Exchange ------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Shaikh Jamaluddin
The Regional Employment Exchange is not the only agency providing job opportunities, today. Many private agencies have come up which help the unemployed get placements in the country as well the overseas. The tag 'only agency providing jobs' of the Regional Employment Exchange was snatched away by the verdict of the Supreme Court in the year 1996.
The 'real' role of the employment provider is being played by almost all the government departments or offices of the service sector, says Mr V S Naik, the deputy director of the Regional Employment Exchange.
"Employment exchange is the only referral agency for submission of names for guidance and motivation and to the registrants in need of employment assistance in various government establishments and private sectors," he adds.
Pointing to the fact that only educated elite register their names and keep their names on the live register of the employment exchange with the hope of getting white collar jobs, he says," However, the jobs in the government department are far-fetched and limited in nature."
"But most of the unemployed youth from rural areas shy away from registration and names on the live register are not necessarily of unemployed candidates. 30 to 35 per cent of them are doing some work or the other," he discloses.
Presently, Goa is facing the problem of under-employment and it is not the unemployment crisis, he says further.
"Nowadays, almost all the departments have some or the other vacancies and are forced to announce on the newspapers and members of the public are fully aware about the government plans. These announcements are not only restricted to English dailies or Employment Exchange News bulletin but are also seen in the vernacular language newspapers also," he adds.
Now, if one goes by instances and incidents, the job-seekers are seen fast losing faith in the working of the Employment Exchange and there is no hustle and bustle, once experienced at the office premises.
There is a graveyard silence in and around and very rarely one sees some candidates coming to enquire about job opportunities in defence services like Navy and others.
"There are no calls. There is no proper guidance. No proper seniority list
is maintained. But if we fail to renew our registrations, they stand cancelled,"
lament a group of unemployed youth.
After securing expensive degrees and diplomas, we feel in no-man's land. Even by arming ourselves with the latest degrees in computer science by spending thousands of rupees, we have failed to get any call from the Employment Exchange, they point out.
"Whenever we approach the department our queries draw vague responses," they tell. "What are we supposed to do? We took lot of pain and our parents spent lot of money to make us graduates. Now, if we tell our parents that this qualifications do not have any demand in the employment market, would they believe? What will happen to their their hopes about us," they add.
Some newly passed out school and college students expressed that the unemployment scene is very much precarious in Goa. There is a general feeling that only effluents and influentials succeed in getting white collar jobs.
"God only knows, how far Goans have gone in search of good jobs or to make it big. Only middle class Goans are concentrating exclusively for jobs in governmental departments, banks or jobs in the teaching field," says a retired employee of one private company.
Many a time one tries to get a government job putting in sheer efforts in order to have a secure future. As the jobs in governmental departments are limited, only few succeed, he reveals.
The lower middle class is only facing difficulties in getting jobs. Though educated, but devoid of political influence, these people fail to secure good governmental jobs, says one bank officer.
The only sector which offers a good amount of jobs in the service sector and the migrant labourers seem to hit gold mine in this sector in the state. ---------------------------------------------- The Navhind Times 28/7/03 page 6 ----------------------------------------------
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