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Author:J. RAGHOTHAMA REDDY
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:22, Issue:dec-dec
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04897
Abstract
The complexity of the Indian situation, as it exists to day is so
immense and the causes so complicated that it is wellnigh impo-
ssible to think of any one aspect as divorced from the other. Yet
two problems, the unemployment of the educated and the agricultural
backwardness of the masses do loom large on our socio-economic
horizon. These two problems have during the past few years defied
all attempts at solution and continue to make a demand on the con-
structive statesmanship of the greatest of us. And therefore any
scheme or any course of action which combines in itself the solution
entire or partial of these two important issues merits not only careful
consideration but a bold trial, and it would be ideal if a solution of
either problem can be achieved as a direct or indirect result of the
other being tackled. Of the two issues, the unemployment of the
educated middle class being considerably smaller in magnitude, can he
tackled first and the enormous energies of educated youth can be
liberated and harnessed to the advantage of "greater India". When
sure enough we will be nearer the solution of the rural problem with
the field of scientific agriculture being so vast and so pregnant with
potentialities, that it affords a promising field for the absorption of
the energetic youth. If during the last so many years no considerable
number of the educated classes has gone back to the land. it is due
to no fault of theirs. Students from arts colleges found themselves
unfit for the task, and even the graduates of agriculture Incked push
and courage to fall back on their own resources. Above all, a secure
and comfortable berth in Governmennt service as against the hazardous
profession of agriculture held out more temptations. Circumstances
have thus conspired to make the Indian youth develop a lethargic
outlook with the result that he would rather remain unemployed than
resort to an independent though risky profession, as agriculture is at
the present day. Whatever may be the reasons for this deplorable
state, the tragic fact has to be holdly faced and unless he is put on the
land with all conveniences provided, even a graduate in agriculture is
not likely to take to his profession in near future.
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