What is the biggest challenge that youth face in your country?
Challenges are the real meanings of life. Life itself is a challenge, a pleasure, a comfort, a hardship, a beauty, a pain, and much more. Moreover, facing the challenge is the norm of life. Like me, many other people are coping with challenges simultaneously. In terms of country level, there are so many challenges the youth is facing but the article is describing the biggest challenge of youth.
The biggest challenge that youth is facing in my country is; unemployment. Unemployment is the fractional problem of every evil. A great saying “idle person is a devil's workshop”. It is an exotic which spread the smell of evil in society. The ideology of unemployment is creating frustration in many of our minds. Due to frustrations, especially many of the youth are going to have alternative ways of earning. They do not care about crime, being thief and much more misconduct in society. Thus, it is our falsehood to believe and trust those people who are not having enough to eat square meals a day.
Basically, the problem of unemployment is hanging like a disease in our hearts and thundering our minds. The people who are only staying here in our country without working are the most dangerous for our society. Hunger can lead the educated people to committed crimes. The rising frustration for unemployment may be due to the following circumstances; education leading to jobs, inequality in the education system, lack of skilled education system, poverty, and child labor.
- Education Leading to a Job
The most painful element is; people are mixing the educational degree with employability. People nominated a few status jobs for educated people and the prominent positions are scarce due to competition. Thus, education is not to base for the job but it is to make you capable to gain your knowledge, set of skills, gain of experience through experiments, and initiatives. The degree holder should understand to take new initiatives, discover something new, create more rather than following the footstep of a traditional job. On the contrary, it can create frustration if the degree holder couldn’t have anything to do after a long time of studying.
2. Lack of Skilled Education
Our education system more focuses on text cramming and book reading. The students are not advised about the practical implementation of their knowledge. Students only learn how to read and write but they do not know how to use their knowledge in real life. Even, the practical subjects are crammed during the study. When these students move towards their working life then they face a lot of issues. The students are not trained in soft skills and they do not how to communicate their ideas properly. On the contrary, the students learn computer skills when they are on job which could have been learned during the academic life. It is the biggest issue in our country that students do not have enough life skills. They just know how to read and write but are not aware of basic skills. Their lacks of skills are leads to unemployment.
3. Inequality in Education System
Pakistan is facing a lot of inequality in the education system. We have three types of the education system; Islamic Education system, Private Education System, and Public Education System. The categorized education system has been divided due to the family classes. A poor family of our society always goes after Islamic education as it is free of cost. Then the poverty in Pakistan is approximately 24.3% according to the report of the Ministry of Planning and Development in the National Assembly of Pakistan. It shows 55 million people are sending their children to the mosque for studies. The people living above the poverty line are sending their children to the Government School and the elite is sending to Private School. Now, these three schooling systems teaching the students from the different syllabus. It is difficult to come to the same place to bid for the job because of the categories. The private students are more confident than the public schooled students and the public schooled students are more confident than Islamic schooled students.
Thus above mentioned are the issues of not having a job according to the academic qualification. Now, this frustration is automatically motivating them to snatch their right to food, become thieves, terrorists, and many more that can satisfy to fulfill their necessities. This throws them in frustration and compels them to follow up the evil to satisfy their wants. In Pakistan, young people found terrorist activities- well educated from Pakistani top ten universities. So I think the biggest challenge that creates many problems for our economy and our society is only unemployment.
