2. Introduction
Bangladesh is a small country with growing problems.It has many
social problems. Among all problems, unemployment problem is a great
one. No country in the world is absolutely free from the problem of
unemployment. In fact, it is a common phenomenon in almost all the
countries of the world- both developed and developing.
Unemployment means the state of being without any work both for the
educated and the uneducated for earning one’s livehood. The problem
has spread its evil clutch all over the country. It is going from bad to
worse.
Thousand of people in our country are jobless now. All are getting
concerned with this problems.
Bangladesh is a developing country. It is trapped in a serious
unemployment problem. The rate of unemployment in Bangladesh is
more than 25% of total population.
4. Types of Unemployment There are a few types of unemployment:
Involuntary (most common)
Voluntary
Transient
5. Involuntary is where someone can not gain
employment even though they are trying. Here a
few:
Lack of skills
Lack of available jobs
Lack of entrepreneurship
Voluntary Unemployment is someone chooses not
to work.
The benefit system in place is too generous
Too wealthy to need to work
Criminal behaviour and also criminal record
Transient, means that they are currently between jobs
and will have a month or two off between one job and
the next.
6. Causes of Unemployment
i. Population growth
ii. Industrial
backwardness
iii. lack of investment.
iv. Limited cultivable
land
v. Narrow productive
work
vi. Lack of
socialization
vii. Defective
education system
viii.Lack of skills
7. Mental/Physical Disabilities
Laziness
Attitude of our educated Youngman
Mental stress
Lack of self esteem
Poor personality
Drug addiction
Kidnapping, Snatching, traffic jam and various types
of social crime
Abuse of political power
8. Unemployment situation in
Bangladesh
According to a study of the International Labor
Organization (ILO), the rate of growth of
unemployment in Bangladesh currently is 3.7 per
cent. The ILO figures also show Bangladesh in the
twelfth position among the top twenty countries in
the world where unemployment is rising.
The number of the unemployed in Bangladesh now
is
estimated at 30 million. The way the rate of
unemployment is increasing, it is feared that at this
rate unemployment would soar to some 60 million
by 2015. According to another estimate, every
year some 2.7 million young persons are
becoming eligible for jobs whereas only about 0.7
million of them are getting employment.
11. Effects of unemployment problem
Unemployment is a great social evil. It makes a man idle.
There is a proverb, that an idle brain is the workshop of a
devil. An idle person always indulges in mischief.
So unemployment leads people to various unsocial
activities which hamper the normal course of social life.
Besides, lack of opportunities for employment makes
people frustrated to take education.
12. Our government’s policy
The government has several projects to increase employment
among the mass. The main objective of the government
policy is to create self-employment by training &
encouraging small business among the mass. Government
has undertaken a high budget Youth Training Program to
create trained workforce in the country. Government’s road &
highway development projects provide jobs to many. Women
development ministry has training centers for women to
create self employment. Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower,
Employment and Training (BMET) also work to provide
workers who want to work abroad.
13. Activities of NGOs and OrganizationsActivities of Some Several
private organizations such as
The Grameen Bank, Proshika,
Save the Children, Brac,
ASA,WBTF, etc. are working in
The country to increase
Enemployment rate.They are
playing vital role to increase
This problem. The NGOs gives
training to men-women &
promote cottage industries.
This
allows them to be self-
dependent & creates more jobs.
14. Unemployed population as a
burdenThe unemployed population is a
burden itself to the nation and its
government. They can neither
improve their own life nor can
they help the nation to progress.
The nation has to suffer for
this huge inactive population
& they hold back the economic
progress.
15. To solve the problem some measures may be taken.
The first necessary thing for the solution of the problem
is that a large number of mills, factories and firms
should be set up throughout the country so that the
unemployed can work there.
Vocational training should be introduced
and students should have some training in it. Our
students and youths should be encouraged to respect
manual labour and choose an independent career. The
government should be honest and sincere in their plans
and policies. Above all, the growth of population should
be kept within reasonable limit.
17. ConclusionUnemployment is a great curse to a nation.We
cannot expect the development of our country
leaving its millions of the people unemployed to
serve as a boastful nation.We should make all out
efforts to get rid of this curse.Analysis of this study
tries to indicate this phenomenon by focusing of
the skills/qualification(apart from degree,certificate
and diploma)that are considered as important for
graduates’ employ ability by the corporate bodies
of Bangladesh.
