Unemployment Problem In Bangladesh
There has been a lot of discussion about the graph for a couple of days, but I don’t see anything to converse about it. The overall employment status of graduates has been illustrated here, where we see 21% of students get a job after completing their graduation from the national university, & 66% remain unemployed. On the contrary, only 32% of graduate students from Public universities get their preferred job & the percentage is not so much better than the NU.
Why do most of the students remain unemployed even after completing graduation? We have been blaming the government and education systems for a couple of years, but can we really absolve ourselves from this? Not at all. Let me clarify how. “The Total Number of Applicants in the 41st Bcs Exam Was 475,000 and it Is the Highest in the History of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Exams” (According to Prothom Alo) where only 2,000 vacancies will be filled. So, what will happen to the remaining students who have been studying for a long time?
A significant number of students attend the examination as a hobby & to show society that they are participating in the BCS exam. Among them, you’ll find a vast number of students who already know they won’t pass even in a preliminary exam but still don’t try to move to other sectors and intentionally remain unemployed.
There are many graduates from both public & national universities who are jobless because of their sluggishness & they even don’t try to do something on their own & this is another reason for being unemployed. You’ll also find a group of graduate students who want to become magistrates, bureaucrats, SP, and DC in one leap, but they know very well that they don’t hold that type of capability.
It can’t be denied that we are going through a faulty education system, but we are also responsible as most of our students are getting mad only to become a BCS cadre. I’m not against the BCS, but why should someone attend the exam when they already know they don’t have the potential?
