THREE CATEGORIES OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE

In a society there are generally three categories of unemployed people according to their low, moderate and high achievement of literacy. In the low literacy group belong :-

·         People living in rural areas as small scale farmers  or landless labourers;

·         People having only seasonal employment with little or no work for more than half of the time

·         Slum dwellers without employment

·         People with low percentage of literacy, especially lower percentage among the rural people and still lower percentage among women due to low enrollment in primary and secondary schools and a high dropout rate.

·         A huge number of illiterate youth and adults with semi rather having simply functional literacy. 

The moderate literate group comprises of :-

·         People with high percentage of literacy, a higher percentage of enrollment and a low dropout rate

·         Increasing number of school leavers at primary, middle and secondary stages waiting to be absorbed in economic activities

The literate group comprises of:-

·         People having high percentage of literacy , having reached the stage of autonomous learning comprising of unemployed youth ,housewives and retired persons.

Whenever any public or private organisation is making any plan to empower the unemployed ,they have to keep in mind that percentage of population who are learners, leaving before the completion of secondary and higher secondary stages. The growing concentration of people in urban areas accompanied by thinning population in rural communities , rapid shift from an agrarian to an industrial society and rapidly decreasing engagement in agriculture related activities with corresponding increases in the service, manufacturing and high technology can only be balanced if employment is generated in rural areas.