We are worried about the increasing unemployment rate in the country. Bangladesh has currently about eight lakh graduates who remain unemployed, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Unemployment rate was low among persons with low or no education, but the rate of joblessness increased in line with the rise in education level, according to the study. Once we had to witness serious session jam taking away valuable time of the university students of the country.
But, now our students barely face such situation and they are completing their honours and masters degrees on time. After passing out from their universities or higher educational institutions, they start applying for different government and private jobs.
But, they are now facing serious difficulties due to lengthy recruitment procedure especially of the government jobs including public cadre service. Thousands of jobseekers are in deep frustration for the lengthy process.
The young educated people are
also suffering from
depression as they
cannot
contribute anything to the country
They become the burden of their respective family and the burden of this country as well. The young educated people are also suffering from depression as they cannot contribute anything to the country. The authorities concerned including Public Service Commission (PSC) takes three to four years for completing the recruitment procedures. We cannot understand why recruitment procedure jam is prevailing in all government sectors especially PSC.
The government has a total of two lakh 39 thousand and 15 post of BCS cadre service. But it has now only one lakh 95 thousand and 679 first class public servants while 43 thousands and 336 posts remain vacant.
To fill vacant posts in different cadres and other government jobs authorities concerned and PSC published circulars. But the authorities concerned and PSC have not finalised candidates, so, the government could not appoint the selected candidates yet. They always say that it is a long process as they have to check, cross check and recheck the candidates and conduct their medical tests and police verifications. They need long time to complete the procedures in what they say in ‘transparent’ way.
The government has introduced electronic recruitment system (e-recruitment) at its all organisations in order to ensure hassle-free and faster recruitment of manpower bringing an end to the traditional cumbersome method. It is not acceptable to linger the recruitment process.
We believe as the Chief Adviser Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has vowed to advance the country further by overcoming all hurdles, his government will work to create employment opportunity for the youths.
