INDIA’S WORKLESS

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18047, 16 June 1930, Page 4

INDIA’S WORKLESS

PLIGHT OF UNIVERSITY MEN. Would there be less trouble in India if more employment were available for members of the educated Indian middle class? “India in 1928-29,” the annual report on the country’s “moral and material 1 progress," prepared by Mr J. Coatman, Director .of Public Information with the Government of India, suggests that new avenues of employment for these classes are needed. The growth of Indian industry, it says, “ought to provide these openings in the future.”

Mr Coatman points out that: “When we talk of. unemployment in India, what we. have in mind usually is unemployment among the educated classes; and there is no doubt that this constitutes a problem which is becoming more and more serious every year. Probably nine graudates in ten from Indian universities look to Government service in the first place for a living, but every year the universities turn out many thousands of educated youths in excess of the number of Government and other public jobs available. Among the members of what we might term the educated middle class there is undeniably severe distress. In very many cases, even when employment has been found, its remuneration is very meagre.”