Bengaluru, 20 May(HS): Gone are the days of finding any connection with one's qualifications and the subsequent jobs opting later. Such thoughts look like the good old days which existed a few decades ago are almost over long back. Now, it looks like there is no meaning in finding any semblance with the formal degrees and the positions later.
PhD holders run Autos and Taxis: Way back in the early Nineties, when my better half wondered about doing a PhD after the marriage and our son, became three years old there was a news story in the newspapers. It mentioned the predicament of PhD degree holders in the country equalling to the population of Phillippines! Now, after several decades passing away, it is left to your imagination the possible numbers of the PhD holders in India. Forget the numbers, the situation of PhD holders is quite dismal. Now and then you keep learning from the media about the pathetic plight of PhD holders ending up doing menial jobs and some of them transforming into Auto and Cab drivers!
B Tech graduates apply for all sundry jobs: Unfortunately, the job market has gotten so bad these days that for advertisements for any type of job you get any number of highly qualified applications and more so from the Engineering background including the B Tech. A study into the piquant plight revealed the ground situation of not all graduates emerging well in the grades and being compelled to keep trying for all jobs possible.
59,772 Teacher posts vacant: According to Madhu Bangarappa, Minister for School Education, 59,772 posts of teachers are vacant in the state. Of these vacancies, 50,067 are in the Primary schools and the remaining 9,705 pertain to the High schools. The vacancy position is no better in the PU, Degree colleges and Universities and Guest Lecturers manage the show.
Freshers get 3L and CEO multi Crores! These days, it looks like there is no connection with wherein freshers getting stuck for decades with a salary package of 3 lakh per annum. The CEO there however get multi-crore pay cheques. This has been the story with almost all IT companies in any Metro city in India.
Engineering graduate becomes a cop: Krishna V Itnal, retired Administrative Officer of LIC and a septuagenarian Gandhian settled in Pune informs: Recently my age-old intimate friend Veerbhadragowda Patil, the Brahmakumaris follower, had an interesting fact to tell me in the above context. Pampanna is a villager from the Deodurg area of Raichur Dist. His widowed mother, a landless lady works as a coolie on other agricultural farms...
...Third in the final year: Pampanna with his hard work of study got a merit seat in PDA College of Engineering, Kalaburagi. Veerbhadragowda Patil provided him with free accommodation and food for four years. Pampanna stood third in college in his final year of Engineering with distinction. Like many others, he moved to Bengaluru in search of a job and landed at a meagre package of Rs Three lakh per year...
...Monthly salary of Rs 57,000: Accidently he learnt that a drive was there in Karnataka to recruit police constables. He tried and succeeded and now he is undergoing police training at Chikmagalur. It is said that on completion of training and regular placement, he is going to draw a monthly salary of Rs,57,000/-...
...97 Engineering graduates: Pampanna is not a lone engineer candidate in the training centre there. There are 97 others with Engineering qualifications among the 400 trainees there. Yesterday there was another disturbing news here in Pune at the operator level in factories, a new candidate is given a meagre salary of Rs,10,000/-a month and interestingly, there were no takers for the job!...
...No educated youth is ready for manual work in fields: When I analyse such things, I see a bleak future for these types of highly educated guys. However, a ray of hope is there in wetland agriculture, but no educated youth is ready for manual work in fields. I know one Ramesh Hosamani, totally illiterate, goes in for sugarcane cutting, in the season to get a salary of Rs.1100/- on a contract basis...
...Barber's job equivalent to that of a lawyer: In the meanwhile, I remember a write-up by Mahatma Gandhi, based on the book Unto the Last, that a barber's job carries equal importance as that of a lawyer. To repeat the fact there appears to be no good opportunity for the young, talented and educated youths with a decent amount of money as a salary shortly. Unfortunately, I am ending the topic not on a positive note, signed off Krishna V Itnal.
Hindusthan Samachar / Manohar Yadavatti
