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CREATING JOB OPPERTUNITIES
FOR UNEMPLOYED
Name: H.A.D.N.C Seneviratne
Index: S9562
Reg.No: 2008/S/10932
Subject: Macro Economics
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Creating job opportunities for unemployed
Unemployment is a major problem in many countries in the world. Especially its badly
influenced to the developing countries like Sri Lanka. The lack of job opportunities can posegreat problems to the peoples in these countries. Because they have no means of earning living,
the unemployed could face problems in paying rental or mortgages. This may leads
homelessness. Furthermore unemployment leads to problem like illnesses, malnutrition, mental
stress and loss of self-confidence and eventually depression. Also it is a known fact that
unemployment increases the crimes including robberies murders suicides and etc. Therefore
finding a practical solution is a major task for a government in this kind of problem.
Creating job opportunities is the major solution to the
unemployment of a country. Mainly people work under government sector, private sector or self-
employed. Since government has privileges to influence on all three areas, government has amajor responsibility about this unemployment problem. For that, government can implement
various programmes, projects to create job opportunities. These are some of the suggested
solutions which can be useful in finding job opportunities to unemployed in Sri Lanka.
Development of public work programmesMost oftenly public works like road development, cleaning roads, villages and cities, making
public toilets and maintaining them are done by the municipal council or urban council labors.
But I think this limited labor force doesnt fulfill the exact requirement of public works in the
urban and rural areas. Especially in rural areas works like construction of roads need much labor
force. So I think government should implement programmes to specifically public works and
recruit people for these programmes. I think this will be much helpful to poor uneducated people
who suffering from unemployment.
Encouraging people who like self-employment and give them financial aidsPolicy makers increasingly view self-employment in the form of youth entrepreneurship as a
possible solution to the youth unemployment crisis. Experts believe that 20% of the all people
are fit to run their own business (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-employment). Therefore if
the government can target these people and encourage them to self employment it will create many
opportunities to people who have their own abilities to start business or trades. Especially in this
process people must have some kind of knowledge for self employment. There are many vocational
training institutes found in Sri Lanka which trains people for this purpose. But the problem is peoples
awareness about these institutes is in the lower side. Also there are people who have eager to start their
own business but dont have financial strength. Government gives loans with the help of government
banks (eg: self employment promotion initiative loan scheme (SEPI) by peoples bank) to these people.
But their conditions in the loan contract in bit tougher side which causes not to entitle most of the
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applicants to these loans. Therefore government must focus on these things specially implement well
organized programmes, workshops about self employment. Expand the facilities of the vocational
training institutes and give more publicity about these institutes to the society. Development of the loan
scheme programmes and gives more opportunity to wide range of people who actually believe on self
employment.
Modifying syllabuses of school and higher (university) educations by adding more industryoriented causes and training programmes.
Unlike most of the foreign countries our education has high standards. Even though it has high
standards our syllabuses are heavily based on theoretical aspects. There is a little concern about
practical aspects in these syllabuses. Because of that most of the school children, undergraduates
and graduates have less practical knowledge. So it raises youth unemployment. Especially in Sri
Lanka private sector warmly welcomes very energetic youths who actually have more practical
and general knowledge rather having traditional theoretical knowledge people. Therefore
government must think of this situation and it is their responsibility to create skilled younger
generation with have all round abilities in both theoretical and practical knowledge. For that
government must to research and survey in both government and private sector to identify the
job areas which can expand the job opportunities and create industry oriented courses targeting
those specific fields, then add to school and higher education syllabuses. As an example
University of Moratuwa introduces new degree programme called Transport and logistics
management which has goal to create specialized undergraduates in logistics field. Because
from a research they found that there is a big demand to this logistics field in Sri Lanka. This has
to improve lot more in other universities rather than depending only on traditional courses.
Find foreign job opportunities in other countriesGovernment must talk with the other countries and find job opportunities to our people in those
countries. Still most foreign job opportunities come from middle east but it must improve on other
countries also.( E.g.: recently Sri Lanka had a contract with South Korea and as a results we have
some job opportunities in South Korea).
Give more opportunity to foreign investors to start their business/companies in Sri Lanka.This is one of the best ways to find job opportunities to unemployed in Sri Lanka. Because after
the civil war, more foreign investors likes to invest their money to start their business/companies
in our country than past. Not like our investors, generally these foreign investors have much more
strength to give more job opportunities to people. Also most oftenly their salary levels are much
higher than local company salaries. So government can invite more foreign investors to start their
businesses, companies in our country. There may be practical issues like it may harmful to local
companies which sometimes wont survive in the market. Therefore government can start a
proper programme to this which they can invite foreign investors who actually doesnt badly
influence on local market.( Eg: Most percentage of the IT related job opportunities are offered to
Sri Lankans by global companies like Virtusa and IFS)
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Find about other indirect/unpopular job opportunities for people and concentrate on themAll the above suggestions are about direct job opportunities. But sometimes there can be job
opportunities from indirect ways also. As an example consider the constructing of Hambanthota
airport. It directly influenced on the development of the near areas. Because of that people from
near areas got and will get lot more job opportunities which they never had in past. Also very
few of them know there are so many online job opportunities available in the internet. You can
work from home and earn money. In foreign countries, acceptable percentage of people earn
from the online jobs. Now most of the urban areas covered by lot of internet broad bands.
Internet is no more problem to these areas. So these opportunities can get to Sri Lankans. But the
problem is their awareness and knowledge about these things. So if government can consider
about these job opportunities and give it those to people who have ability to do these kinds of
jobs that will be a great solution to unemployment.
So these are some of the suggested solutions which can create job opportunities to
unemployment. For these suggestions government want to play a big role by giving proper
guidance, aids and on the other hand public awareness about is also very important to get betterresults.
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