The Goa Congress’ idea for a dole or unemployment allowance for our unemployed youth is like an investment which in fact all government schemes are. The politicians support such schemes for the amount of kickbacks that they will get. Imagine in a constituency if the MLA is able to get the allowance of Rs 1000 at the minimum for a 1000 youth or even 500 then if 10% is shovelled back to the MLA then that is a cool Rs 1 lakh or Rs 50,000 a month revenue stream flowing in.
Who can look away from that kind of money coming in without lifting a finger? But the basic thing is that a dole or unemployment allowance will make our youth all the more lazy and they will not at all look for a job. Moreover they will look for avenues to earn easy money. It is like the old adage–Give a man a fish and he will come back to you tomorrow. But teach him fishing then you would have helped him forever. Like that, let our government train our youth in job skills and make them employable. Today it is a vicious circle, the youth are not skilled for which reason the industry cannot employ them and the youth make no attempt to pick up job skills because they are all waiting for a government job. Actually the malaise relating to employment is deeper particularly in Goa. Why do people keep waiting for a government job? Because of the salaries and the major perk that it offers, you do not have to work and sometimes you do not even have to come to the office to work.
Only pick up your monthly salaries and go home. The salaries are also high compared to the work that is put in and over the years the salaries will up go up which is a certainty. So who wants to look for another job? Here again the politician comes in who has a hidden agenda in paying government employees more since it is a vote bank and again while hiring people the concerned officials can make money which in most cases, the share of which goes right up to the minister. Thus higher the salary a very comfortable and pliable body of government employees and higher the money to be paid for getting a government job to the powers-that-be. Thus ends the fairy tale with a happy ending like they say – They all then lived happily ever after. But God help the common man who goes to the government for work. Either he will not find the official in his seat or under some pretext or other he will be made to run around or told flatly that his work cannot be done unless a bribe is paid. This is India, this is Goa.
