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Unemployment is a major major problem in India. No jobs, no marriage. 1.4 billion people, most populous youth workforce that has existed ever in the entire hist

by frontman1988 4y ago

Unemployment is a major major problem in India. No jobs, no marriage. 1.4 billion people, most populous youth workforce that has existed ever in the entire history of the world, poor education system, lack of manufacturing sector, small land holdings etc. create a recipe for disaster. Millions of people literally slog for years in a rat race to get a low paying government bureaucratic job. Here is a recent exam in which the crowd was so much that they even chocked the railway lines: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/moving-scene-up-exam-candidates-choke-railway-stations-bus-stands-8211134/ https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/moving-scen...

alephnerd 4y ago
To be fair, a lot of the comp in those low paying government jobs can be recovered by the employees of those jobs asking the people they're serving for a little "extra" to speed up the process.
- klyrs 4y ago
  I'm not sure that 'fair' would be my word choice here. You're describing corruption.
  - prirun 4y ago
    I had a friend from India explain to me about 30 years ago that everything in India is done with bribes. His example was, if you wanted to get your high school transcript, you would have to bribe people all along the way. If you asked the wrong person, you'd have to pay them to tell you the right person. He said the whole society is run like this.
    - PaulHoule 4y ago
      It's a reason why India stays poor.
      - alephnerd 4y ago
        A lot of this has changed over the past 10 years because of digitization. By removing the need to physically file paperwork or physical verification, there's less opportunity or ability for low level bribe taking.