Policy of contractual job needs revision

India has become young as youth population is in majority nowadays. Naturally, the efficiency of youth is larger than a senior citizen. Time to time guidance of senior citizen to youth is very important to give the right direction to complete the task efficiently as well as economically. But senior citizen should not eat the bread of the youth rather they should eat less for their health which will also keep the society healthy. Senior citizen should generate the efficient work force before attaining retirement age from their job and should provide guidance time to time to the new work force to prepare them more skilled for the overall rapid development as well as to overcome unemployment/disguised employment of the country.

The role of government cannot be overlooked in this regard. The recruitment of Government job is decreasing and a trend of contractual basis job as in private sector has become very popular in the Government Departments. Specially the work of group-D viz sweeper’s job for cleaning floor, sanitation work of toilets, job of gardener to maintain gardens/lawns of the offices, electrician’s work etc.etc are being given to the contractors and contractors are exploiting the available unemployed youth and get the work done out of lesser wages than mentioned in record. They are doing this job below the minimum wages approved by Law/(Govt.). Some time educated candidates are doing waiter’s Job in Dhabas etc. and their skill is not being utilized rather retired / voluntary retired people are getting the contract basis employment in the Government offices. On the one hand the Government adopts the economy measure to decrease Government expenditure on the other hand expending more money on giving contractual employment to retired / voluntary retired people instead of lesser expenditure on new recruitment of energetic youth work force. The retired people should be invited for consultancy for some specific expertise as and when their skill is required rather than to work in place of an available regular post. New recruitment of the regular post should be done within a certain period of time rather to continue contract of the retired person. This is comparatively expensive, efficiency/out put is less comparatively to skilled youth (available in large quantity) and it is irresponsible attitude towards the future of the youth.

So, the Government should rethink towards the policy of contractual job and should not keep its policy at par of the private sector rather should have watch dog eyes towards private sector so that the private sector could not exploit their workers.