Jobless: The Goatlife of Indian Youth | Joe-metric View | #india #unemployment #joemetric

A widely talked about movie this week is Goatlife, the movie adaptation of a 2008 novel by Benyamin.

It's the tale of a Kerala youth who lands in Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s seeking better prospects, but ends up trapped in the middle of a desert forced to herd goats, not even allowed to wash himself and no way to escape.

Even three decades later, Indian youth are desperate for jobs. Ironically, at a time when India is the fastest growing major economy.

An IHD-ILO study, India Employment Report 2024 underlines the sorry state of youth employment in India. Of India's total unemployed, 83% are comprised of youth under 34 years, as of 2022.

Also, nearly 90% of all employed Indians are employed informally.

This is election time. The right time to. bring this serious matter to the limelight.

[mohitreddy]

Has India missed the opportunity to capitalize on its demographic dividend?. A lot of Indians are under the delusion that India is going to be superpower, India is already an ecological disaster, is there any hope to become a developed country sustainably?

[shajiabraham]

For skilled jobs, technicians/ skilled labourers unemployment is very less. High rate of unemployment among conventional degree/ post graduates, engineers etc indicates the need of change in our educational system.

[thresiammababu]

As usual your observations are correct and very accurate..

[swm]

Kerala politics and der stupid ideologies is degrading the state.

[kjjacob]

Well articulated. Proud of you my classmate

[Oswald]

What else do you expect when we keep voting for politicians whose lackeys own schools that dont employ qualified profs and out fake degrees. Graduates in name only ...helps in getting married or getting a dowry!

[Sara-cywo]

Greetings from Morocco 😊 your videos are always filled with great insights

[nerf]

20 years ago when was in school. computer education was
mouse ki defination
keyboard ki defination
what is input, output and processing
What is taskbar, what is title bar.

it reminded me movie scene from jaadu.

[dineshbhasker]

Under employed politicians become rich and promise jobs to the unemployed, promises they have no idea how to keep and no intention of keeping 😅

[sumalsurendranath]

Namaskaram, Shri Scariaji

Kerala has the highest rates of unemployment for almost 4 decades.

4 generations of Malayalis have worked in Burma(then named so), Ceylon, Borneo, Zambia, GCC and now USA, UK.

Somehow, there is no media coverage of this aspect. National Skill Development Council was set up to address this issue.

Sadly, they seem to have made no difference.

Regards,
Sumal S

[rahulhari]

All this is a result of skipping industrialization (manufacturing) and embracing a service based eoxnomy without akilling our youth. Our politicians never learn and ppl pay a price

[sebinsebastian]

We have no hope, even though AI is dangerous our only hope is AI.

[SarithaD-ji]

Excellent analysis, Proud of you Dear Sir

[rashmipoojara]

A very unfortunate scenario indeed!
Your views on improving the situation too please.

[Sigmaccount]

Can you attach the source/link of the news related to butcher course (deepika newspaper)?

[vareechankadavil]

As per the data provided, the best solution for unemployment is transformation from literate to illiterate !

[ananthan]

We have to change our chalta hai culture in all areas. Especially encourage meritocracy,
be obsessive about quality and rule of law. That is how the materially developed countries have developed. Our lacunae in these three aspects have been our main handicaps. I don't however like darkly despondent commentators. Take the Gulf scene, for example. The largest contingent of the nine million Indians there are Malayalis (around 31% I guess). So maybe the young people are more desperate for jobs in Kerala than elsewhere? Now of the widely discussed film, how relevant is it anymore. Even if it was highly so, does it provide hope, selfconfidence and inspiration to the youth of the country for uplifting themselves by their own effort (ask not what the country can do for you but, etc.).

[Iamnotajournalist]

People have become sensitive to suffering shown on movies but insensitive to real suffering...they need the elite background music, heavy dialogues, matching background 😅😅😅😅

[vinuthomas]

Quality education generate quality output
There’s a huge gap between academics and industry demand which should be bridged.
Robotics, AI and automation add new challenges which Indian leadership yet to act on.
A citizen of this country is entitled a regular income be passive or active.

[cuebal]

IT sector was a good field for mediocrity to thrive and we have plenty of that. More pain for our graduates are on the way with the rise of GenAI