TMI
Bureau
Port
Blair, July 10: Despite of some possible opportunities available for youths,
unemployment is still remaining a concern due to various reasons in the Andaman
& Nicobar Islands.
In
the Government Sector: except A&N Police, IRBn, and A&N Fire Service,
most of the departments have open gates for entry of mainland candidates while
filling up any vacancy in the A&N Administration through online or by
offline, which finally leads to grab the opportunities of islanders in the
absence of domicile (law) in the A&N Islands.
Secondly,
the recent recruitment of about 1000 MTS posts filled by A&N Administration
for various departments in the A&N Islands. One can scrutinize, several
highly qualified (B.Tech., Post Graduate, B.Ed., and Engineering, etc.)
candidates were also applied for the Metric pass jobs (Multi Task Staff), and
got selected for respective jobs as per merit, and the actual Metric or
Intermediate qualified candidates were failed to compete with highly qualified
due to obvious reasons.
In
the Private Sector: here are vast opportunities available in the Islands for
youths, thanks to our Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, for launching
various loan schemes since 2015 to help the youths who have dreams to become
entrepreneurs. Some youths are engaged with business groups like Tourism,
Travels, Small & Micro Industries, Showrooms, Merchant Shops and Sales and
Supplies, etc. in the A&N Islands and earning for their livelihood.
Still
the concern of unemployment is one rise in the islands among youths due to some
surprising reasons. Speaking to this correspondent an Auto-rickshaw driver
said, "Sir, I am an Auto-rickshaw driver and driving Auto-rickshaw only,
and I don't have any other job, just by this I am earning for my family. But,
here are many Auto-rickshaws running in the city are driving by government
servants especially the PBMC department workmen. Despite of their government
service, they are competing in our business, what to do?"
Another
private worker from Hut Bay, Little Andaman revealed a shocking tale on
condition of anonymity, that "a Junior Engineer of Electricity Department
at Hut Bay apart from his salary, is in regular practice of drawing payment in
the name of a DRM (his wife) who never present in office, but always present in
the attendance sheet for past a year".
As
per reliable sources, it is come to the notice that many government servants
are involved in various businesses in the name of another person (Benami) from
driving Auto-rickshaws to supplying items to the Departments and from Tourism
Business to plying vehicles on lease in various departments. Consequently, the
opportunities which are open to unemployed youths are getting closed by the
greedy minds of government servants at several occasions. Thus,
"unemployed youths are demanding for a strict vigilance to find the
unhealthy minds in the A&N Administration which are becoming an obstacle
between unemployed youths and opportunities. Curbing double employment is the
solution to unemployment in the islands", says a citizen.
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