In some places, educated young people are desperate for steady employment in the world’s most populous nation. In others, factory owners struggle to retain workers.

A pervasive problem here is that there just aren’t enough jobs for everybody. Or at least, not a job that pays well enough to consider. The educational system is lagging behind too, with not enough seats for the millions of young people who need it.

This is papered over by the fact that we have good economic growth rates. But, this is confusing the stock market for the economy. The rate of inequality is also steadily climbing with the percentage of wealth owned by billionaires only being second to Russia.

  • @withersailor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    A government job

    But the competition is fierce. Roughly half a million young people took the annual preliminary test for the Bihar Public Services Commission in February, for a total of 281 jobs. For every batch of 2,000 hopefuls, 1,999 will walk away with nothing.

    • @SchoonerOPEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      Sometimes the only option in a lot of places. The pay and benefits are decent compared to private sector work, especially at the lower level.