Unemployment will be the biggest issue in Sikkim: Kiran


Gangtok, June 11: According to various economists, youth unemployment is the country’s ticking time-bomb. A caution in the unemployment rate has reached peak in Sikkim. Thousands number of educated unemployed youths of Sikkim in the final day of submitting the applications form for the post of Revenue Supervisor & the Assistant Surveyor. The application form was made available from 17th May 2010-31st May 2010 and submission of the form was from 1st June -10th June.

About 5000 unemployed youths had gather from all across the state to get job. Many had to face lots of hardships; some didn’t have money to buy refreshments and lunch. Some even fainted between the crowds. Some couldn’t return their respective destination and many among then neither had relatives at Gangtok nor money to stay at hotel.

Seeing this we can clearly predict that unemployment will be the biggest issue in sikkim in near future, said Nawin Kiran of ASESE&UA Thursday.

As per the survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation in 1999-2000, the unemployment rate among the educated persons (15 year and above) was 6.7 per cent in rural areas and 7.4 per cent in urban areas on all India basis. In Comparison with other states of the nation Sikkim’s rate of unemployment in rural area is 11.8 per cent and urban area is12.1 per cent. State must examine the unemployment growth of past ten years to make essential work-out for the solution.

source: Haalkhabar.com