Today my cousin arrived at our place in a rickshaw. Upon arrival he seemed quite distressed, when we enquired he said.
“The rickshaw driver was an educated guy. He had done his F.A and looked quite literate. His mom washed dishes, clothes, everything possible to get her son educated. When after education her son could not get a decent job he resorted to driving a rickshaw so that he could maintain his family”. My cousin said” The Rickshaw driver started weeping and said that he did not have enough money to even sustain his family with bare essentials like flour, tea, sugar and edible oil during the holy month of Ramadan, So please help me”.
First of all a kick on Musharraf’s A** for not providing jobs for the poor, What initiative do they have for education, it’s a better life, when they cant even have the basic needs of life after education , what good is it to them.
secondly we should not be reading this as an article in a third worlds newspaper , Just imagine if you, and I mean YOU, were born a mile , a 100 mile or lets say even a thousand miles in any direction You would be facing the same predicament as the Rikshaw driver ?
LD: That was my main point , if the middle class is unemployed its not that bad, but People who have given so much into their childrens education if they are unemployed than................
should we be proactive and try to get someone to give this man a job, should we send him some money OR should we go back to our nice warm living rooms after weve turned off our computers and have a panna cotta and a nice coffee?
this is not unique, u can see many educated guys in karachi drive cabs as well. in some cases they have degrees that are just not marketable. You dont really see many guys with enginerring, comp sci type degrees in that situation. However not everyone can get those degrees and those who end up in less marketable degrees face this problem more. This is not to say that this is the only reason.
govt needs to encourage more small and medoum enterprises development, provide the benefits and resources to allow people to do that.
The corruption gets in the way of these things quite often. I recall that during nawaz's time there was some sc heme that edcuated unemployed young people could apply to get land allotment in some industrial area and use that as a place to set up their business/factory whatever. We were approached by someone we know who wanted us to apply for the same thing, but then he wanted the land for himself, he was just using myself and my brothers and was forcing my parents to agree to it. We just tppla stand and said absolutely not. not gonna happen.
when nawaz launched the yellow can scheme for unemployed educated youth, pple took advantage of that too, seemingly respectable ppl living in seemingly respectable areas getting yellow cabs for their own use just to avoid import duties on the car and to get a great loan rate.
anyways, govt can do more both in terms of providing opportunities, and in terms of allowing ppl access to marketable training and education. curbing corruption where govts efforts are hurt by badmaash public will also be helpful.
You see, she wasted a lot of money trying to educate this chap.... knowing full well she lived in a country where jobs are not only difficult to comeby but you sometimes need to bribe people into giving you one
If she had given it some thought she couldve sent him (when he was 8) off to learn a trade with a mechanic or a baker or such like and he would have been working by now.
but people have got into their heads that this newfangled education nonsense is going to make their lives great
so it comes as rather a shock when it isnt
These are just a few thoughts, dont mind me...Im an old woman ....what would i know!
FR : If everything was that balanced the world wouldn’t have existed.:)
Yes there will be corruption, and yes people would take advantage of others, and yes there would be people with non marketable degrees, But that does not mean that you the Government does not have a system in place for such people.
On a higher level thought , what’s the difference between you and the rickshaw driver , Just that you were born in a different household.
tahts pitty, but fact remains he is not the 1st nor he will be the last of those less fortunatepeople. I mean if u go about finding well educated unemployed pakis, you will literaly find thousands of them, and even more as under paid and over worked labour. The dilema is that its not about lack of resources! we do have resources and Pakistan IS a rich country in its own way. But that wealth is distributed among very few.
Pakora, what I have witnessed is that Pakistan’s corrupt system is the root cause for all that. You can say that its Musharaf’s responsibilty to provide him the job. and u are right about it! but Imagine how many of those big fishes will let him take their one bottle “black label” and give a months Flour for a poor family?
I know, our taxi driver had a MBA and lived in dubai once and he had cell phones so i dont know if he was poor, but yeah couldnt find a job so drives a cab
u dun need to feel bad Pakora, what u did I do appreciate it and you did the best you could under the given circumtances. I mean no disrespect or anything personaly against you. (on a seprate note, can u send me four bottles rum on daily bases!! a friend of mine needs it )
what I meant is, sure u did what u meant to do, but what about OTHERS? will they do the same as you did?? I am affraid not. and that is the dilema of our society. those large NGO and those fat arses pretending to do good they dun care, and even they dun care about what musharaf is doing. BUT they do if Mushuraaf tries to take their “BLACK label” from their hands (this is just an expression, I ahve no intention of hurting ur feelings)
