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Youth should start village industries, says former MP

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`Government, private sector cannot provide jobs to all graduates' `The Government and private sector cannot provide jobs to all graduates'

Bidar: "Rural youth should stop running after government jobs. They should start village industries instead. Only then can there be meaningful development," former MP Basavaraj Patil Sedam said on Sunday.

He was speaking at a youth convention in Kapalapur in Bidar taluk.

Neither the Government nor the private sector could provide jobs to all youth graduating from various colleges and universities, he said.

In a globalised economy, the Government and private companies aimed at reducing manpower and increasing profits.

Real wealth could be created by entrepreneurs, the former MP said.

"All these IT companies that come up with surveys saying `eight lakh jobs will be created in the IT industry by 2010' are lying.

They select only three of every 100 engineers who apply for jobs in those companies. This means that majority of engineers do not get IT jobs, he said.

`Change mentality'

He said the middle class wanted their children to become doctors and engineers.

Parents should let their children pursue a career in which they had natural flair for, he said. Mr. Sedam, who is the president of the Kottala Basaveshwara Bharatiya Shikshana Samiti, said that the samiti would promote self-help groups of rural youth and organise them into a state-level Co-operative federation.

This federation would not only give loans to youth to take up micro enterprises, but also help them take up community service in their villages, he said.

The samiti would organise over 100 such youth conventions, he said.

Shivakumar Swamiji of Siddharoodh Math, Samiti district co-ordinator Revanasiddappa Jalade, Prawarda NGO president B.G. Javali and organic farming campaigner B.S. Kudre were present.

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