INTRODUCTION:-

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
India has the largest youth population in the world; around 66 per cent of
the total population (more than 808 million) is below the age of 35 .

Employment is a basic element for the growth and developmental

process of economy. It is also the main source of livelihood and self –
fulfilment for most men and women. A productive labor force contributes
dynamic economy and equitable society. Generation of decent gainful
employment is both a mean and an end of any equitable society.

Youth unemployment in India is among the major concerns and is one of

the most widely discussed issues, yet it has hardly seen any resolution.
Education for us Indians is finishing schools and colleges. But we fail to
understand that that’s not it.
It’s not the number of years that you spend in schools or colleges, that’s
going to land you a job. It’s the quality of education and knowledge
acquired during these years, that matters. Most of our childhood and
youth is spent in mugging up textbooks and very less in practical
understanding and acquiring skills.

According to a report, almost 2 million graduates and half a million

postgraduates are unemployed in India. around 47% graduates in India
are not suitable for any kind of industry role. Above all, the level of
educated unemployment in India increases with higher education. while,
at the primary level, youth unemployment is somewhere around 3.6%, it
is 8% at the graduate level and 9.3% at the post-graduate level.

According to the recent CMIE Report (THE CENTRE FOR

MONITORING INDIAN ECONOMY), the urban unemployment rate
declined to 7.93% in February from 8.55% in the previous month while
the rural unemployment rate rose to 7.23% from 6.48%. India’s
unemployment rate rises to 7.45% in February from 7.14% in January.

From a 6% unemployment rate in 2017, India’s unemployment rate

would climb to 8.9% by 2023. According to the estimate, over the next
four years, 10 million more people will join the ranks of the unemployed,
bringing the total to 220 million by 2023. The government also forecasts
that there will be 1 million additional job vacancies over this time period,
but it also expects that the number of jobs would not be sufficient to
counteract the population expansion in general.

With 28.5% in Rajasthan, 19.2% in BIHAR, and 37.4% in Haryana, the

unemployment rate increased in December 2022, as per the CMIE
recent report.

Objective of the research

With rising unemployment in the country there are various
consequences which particularly affect the youth and their
lives. Therefore, this study aims to examine the causes of youth
unemployment and the undesirable consequences of youth
unemployment,

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CAUSES OF YOUTH

UNEMPLOYMENT IN INDIA --

1. Population
Population, or as they say, overpopulation, has always been a roadblock for
considerable number of issues. This ranges from healthcare, basic shelter, to youth
unemployment in India. An economy that has 1.35 billion people living in it, we can
hardly expect to see that the demands of each and every individual is met. The
population is humongous for meeting basic food supplies and medical treatments,
let alone be jobs and placements.

Talking about the youth population and youth unemployment in India, according to
a source, every year, India sees 8-9% increase in enrolment at the higher education
level. India is among the top 5 countries to have highest number of students going
to the universities. The problem here is that there is no equivalent rise in the
number of opportunities.

2. Lack of right skills

Absence of relevant skills is one of the major reasons for youth unemployment in
India. To be fit for working in any industry, it is quite important to equip one-self
with the necessary skill set and focus on competency. However, most youth today
lack the appropriate skills that a job specification requires them to have.

A very high number of graduates do not have required proficiency in English

communication. The role of primary education steps in when we talk about skills. It
is important to focus on basic skills like communication and language at the
elementary level.

Literature review
Many research papers have been published among those one research
paper titled Youth Employment and Unemployment in India by S.
Mahendra Dev and M. Venkatanarayana discussed the worker
population rate and unemployment rate and also the number of students
in India from 5 to 29 age groups.

Increase in the share of youth population due to demographic ‘dividend’

or the ‘youth bulge’ seems to be one of the sources of future economic
growth in India. Although with increase in school and college enrolment
rates, the proportion of youth in the labour force has been declining, their
high proportions in the labour force indicate that the problem of youth
unemployment and underemployment would remain a serious policy
issue for many more years to come in India.

STUDIES RELATED TO YOUTH

UNEMPLOYMENT IN INDIA
1. Youth employment and unemployment in India, S. Mahendra Dev
and M. Venkatanarayana, 2011, Research gate -

This research article is a part of an ongoing project which aims at

collecting the unemployment rates and related macroeconomic variables
to observe trends and effects of such variables on the unemployment
rate
2. The Cause of Unemployment in Current Market Scenario, Rubee
Singh, Vivechan International Journal of Research-

This paper examines the cause of unemployment in India in current

market scenario. Government is rightly concerned about creating jobs for
youth and rising levels of youth unemployment because of not only direct
economic costs but also social issues related problems like as poverty,
acid attacks, violence against women on her working place, drugs,
labour force, inadequate education planning, inappropriate education
system, new-liberal economic policy, various causes of poor placements.
This paper also suggests some measure to overcome of these burning
problems of unemployment.

According to ILO & UN Report, the present unemployment rate is 3.5

percent in 2018. The paper also suggests and recommends some points
to overcome of this current situation of unemployment prevailing in India

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY-
Our research is Descriptive and mainly QUANTITAVE IN NATURE.
And we use both primary and secondary data in our research .
In PRIMARY SOURCE of data collection we use –
1.Population and Sample-
 The youth population ranging between the ages of 18-30 years is
include in our study.
 As a sample, 30 youth’s ranging between the age group of 18- 30
years is surveyed.
And we do it through Questionnaire Development -
One set of structured questionnaire was developed for youth to collect
the data.
IN QUESTIONNAIRE we ask them questions such as
q.1- what is their age ?
q.2-what is their gender?
q.3- what is their educational qualifications?
q.4- have they ever refuses a job and its reason?
q.5 how much minimum wages they want to get from the job?
q.6 what sort of job are they looking for?
- And we will also do personal interviews wherever possible.
2. IN SECONDARY SOURCE OF DATA COLLECTION ,WE COLLECT
DATA FROM VARIOUS SOURCES SUCH AS –
 ARTICLES
 MAGAZINES
 NEWSPAPERS LIKE- TIMES OF INDIA
 WEBSITES
 PREVIOUS PUBLISHED REPORTS