Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy :
Every year a large number of students get graduation from colleges, institutes and universities in Bangladesh. Many of them step forward for masters’ degree in the universities. Some of them try for abroad for jobs and further studies. In this stage of life, many of them are in a situation of hard reality and dilemma. Generally after graduation students get them relieved and they think after hard work they come to this present position. But a good number of them are serious about their future to go into the job markets.
Families, especially parents always think about the future career of their sons and daughters. Those who are brilliant and having good academic career might have the brighter chances in the competitive exams to get a long cherished government job. Some have to be turned as self-made person. They have the initiatives to do something which can make them a person of vision and ultimately they can employ some people in their working place. Initially, persons having government job of their expectation/satisfaction and those who are doing private jobs having fat salary seem to be very lucky and happy. But the rest millions of graduates and masters are always fighting for a job. Situation is so grave that they have no option of choices for getting a job to live on whether it is conforming to their academic attainment or not. Our job market is not so big but the employers are very conservative in nature to the new recruits in private sectors. It is quite natural the private companies always think about profit and loss and corporate social responsibilities get less priority to them. Though there are some owners who show their corporate social responsibility (CSR) by their service and work in the society.
The graduates and masters who do not get job within their thirty years of life are getting frustrated day by day. They start thinking that they are burden of the society and family and they have not sufficient quality or capability to do something for the society and family. And in this case, in general, majority of them have not economic capability to do something income-generating by their own. But exceptions are there and there are many instances that many of our big industrialists started their business career without sufficient capital and some say they were totally out of capital at the initial time. But their indomitable aspirations have brought them to the present position. Sometimes we get the success stories of many of them in the newspapers and electronic media. Nowadays many of them engaged themselves in different social work or especially establishing hospitals and educational institutions as part of their CSR.
A large number of youths are now wandering in the streets in the capital and other big cities with great frustration. In the families they are not getting proper space to ventilate their feelings and opinions and they always feel that they are the burden of their families. Because they are not the earning members of the families they are with. Our social system is so that without income earning one has no say in his/her family; particularly it is applicable to the male members of a family.
In this social environment, some of our boys and girls are doing well in many fields in the country and abroad. Often we get some success stories of them in news and electronic media. But those success stories cannot be generalized for the youths as a whole. Appropriate jobs conforming to the education the youths got are very important for social harmony and dignity of the youths. Otherwise they keep themselves always in a mood of frustration. And this might not be good sign of a respectful nation.
The forthcoming days are the time of 4th industrial revolution. So for that reason we have to prepare ourselves for that situation. Our youths have inherent qualities to do something positive. In our many national crises our youths are always front liners. So for the bright future of the nation the capability of our youth should not be kept underutilized. In this regard the high-ups of the government and the policymakers should take effective measures to create quality education system for the benefit of the nation. Restructuring our system for universal single-head education system is necessary for the nation. It might be that government and decision makers are working on this. But the initiatives must be shown and universal to all of us. Otherwise, gaps and ambiguities will take place in the people’s mind. By any consideration that will not bring any good for the country in the days to come.
(Dr. Rumy is a former Civil Servant and Freelancer).
