Social Influence and Popularity

 Social Influence and Popularity

Money comes from Popularity:

In this era of technology and social media, everyone wants to be famous in very little time. There are three most lucrative ways, kids dream to use for instant popularity and making money i.e. Become an Actor / Actress in Movies, Become a Politician, Become a Cricket Player. Earlier, the most lucrative way was to become an IAS or Doctor or Engineer. 

Money Money and Money

The idea of "Three Idiots" movie is not being used in real life even today. People are still crazy to make money even with choosing beyond the interest of their children. The annual income of IAS or Doctor or Engineer is on an average between 10 lacs to 1 Crore but the incomes of Celebrities of Cricket, Bollywood, and Politicians are in Crores. 

No doubt, their contribution is really great in uplifting the economy and the new generation also take dreams to become a celebrity for gaining prestige. But do you think, becoming celebrity for gaining prestige will uplift our nation?

Would you say unbecoming of IAS or Doctor or Engineer will help nation to get more progress if youth put efforts in becoming celebrities? Obviously No.

Then what to do to get rid of the culture making children attract to play or to participate in talent shows or to try becoming politician without being passionate for it. Let's take the time of crisis from Covid-19, the doctors come ahead as warriors to safeguard the citizens of whole nation. Take example of earthquakes, the engineers come ahead to safeguard and rebuild the nation. Take the example of corruption, the IAS community come ahead to ensure Good Governance and e-governance. The economic growth depends upon fair conduct of all economic activities, corruption-free nation however, it has become a dream for most of the countries of world. It's true if a country not get progress Socially, intellectually, culturally then strategically, it always become backward in future. Due to rise in unproductive areas of becoming celebrities,   soon the corruption will increase and honest people will not have any place in society.

Today's need of the hour is to appreciate and honor the professionals contributing in building nation including Doctors and Engineers. The spirit of nationality should be inculcated in children.

Mahatma Gandhi – An Exceptional Personality:

Everyone knows Mahatma Gandhi for Non-violence but before his social influence, he was an ordinary person who believed use of non-violence to get rid of problems of a common man. He is known for peace today due to his great contribution in making India independent from England with movements in 1947. He brought Human Rights for common man and eliminated injustice which was involved due to caste system in the societies. He influenced the social in very different ways, let us have a light upon the same:

(a) Visionary Leader:

At the time of Salt Movement, nobody imagined that a simple movement can change the perspective of British Government ruling India at that time. Indians learned a lot and proceeded to fight for freedom from the British Rule using non-violence ways and ultimately success was achieved due to entire vision of great leader Mahatma Gandhi.

(b) Simplicity in Life:

Instead of being too rich to defeat British people with only ideas of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi was too simple to wear only clothes made from spinning yarn. The servant leadership style was used as he was serving each common man in touch with him with full devotion. Before coming to India for freedom movements, he was known for his work in South Africa. It was proved by him that with the spirit of sacrifice for others, and movements, anybody can influence the rulers.

(c) Ethics and Values in Life:

The principles of Mahatma Gandhi even today inspire the Ministers, Bureaucrats and no doubt all common men to adopt ethics and values in life. He makes the people learn not to disobey the inner voice, in the face of pressure from outside. Due to his principles, ethics and values are still in the behaviour of Indian as well as the great personalities of the world being influenced from him.

(d) Never Forget the Tenets of Mahatma Gandhi:

If anybody wants to be great social influencer, then it is must to adopt the tenets of Mahatma Gandhi in life i.e. 1. Truth, 2. Non-violence, 3. Right Means and Right Ends, 4. Primacy of Duties over Right, 5. The Deed, not the Doer, 6. True Religion, 7. Non-possession, 8. Sacrifice and Service, and 9. Nonviolent Conflict Resolution

(e) Patriotism and Nationalism:

Each child in childhood in India, is taught the lessons of Patriotism and Nationalism with the stories of Mahatma Gandhi. His exclusive contribution in fighting movements during the British rule, cannot be forgotten and he is known today with his exceptional Gandhian Thinking on which basis, Bollywood even telecast a lot of movies.

No doubt, Today India is leading to establish true democracy with following his principles in life.

Hashtag #SushantWasMurdered:

It is true that everyone wants to be famous enough to influence others in this world. After the death of Sushant Rajput, a renowned Bollywood star, a hashtag trended on Twitter #SushantWasMurdered and people came on social media to demand justice in the case of Sushant. Various renowned personalities claim that there may be mastermind behind the death of Sushant. But the same personalities have lack of courage to come in the court and say something in front of all to disclose the mystery. Noone can easily challenge the judiciary in Democratic country not due to lack of freedom but due to presence of crime.

Whether everything is to gain popularity?

Even there are people who tweeted that the case of Sushant is being promoted to gain recognition, love, and make him popular enough. Will such popularity can work for someone? Yes, it can gain sentiments of people to come ahead for proper enforcement of law and it worked well in many earlier cases.

Alarming Problems affected Economy:

The new alarming problems affecting India are Politics, Drugs, Mafia, Nepotism, and Biasness in decisions on the basis of Social Influence. More popular the personality, more the social influence is created with the help of media including Social Media platforms. The CBI Police, Court interventions, Debates on Television Channels, and most important consuming valuable time of Bollywood personalities to solve this matter; lead to huge economic loss which cannot be measured easily.

Justice Matters a lot:

Can justice be so costly in a democratic country. How to expose a mastermind behind such deaths? The role of Mafia sometimes become more influential than the fair people’s role. Identifying the right one is very critical and also difficult. No one can imagine the growth of nexus of worst people in such cases. It is rightly said, “Our Lives Begin to End the Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter”. But it is also true that we cannot raise voice in every case for every one for supporting him to get justice. Isn’t it?

Who detect what and how?

The cases of money laundering are detected by Enforcement Directorate of concerned nation. The cases of murders or crimes are investigated by Police Authorities may be CBI or FBI. The Drugs related activities are exposed by different authorities like NCB in India. The decisions are made by Judiciary and implemented by Executives. The twist is that everyone is suspected even after successful decision after consuming months in the case. And the things led to social influence on social platforms and gaining of popularity by people involved in it.

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*Copyright © 2020 Mrs. Rashmi. All rights reserved.

Indian Youth and Unemployment

Indian Youth and Unemployment

-Rashmi

The Indian economy is considered to be one of the biggest market targeted by the industrialists and investors. However, it has been affected with the problem of unemployment and it is required to take necessary actions to get rid of this problem of unemployment. The number of jobs for the educated youth, is continuously decreasing and the trading activities are also reduced in the country. The investors are also started to stay far, due to lucrative investment opportunities in United States of America and China. In such circumstances, what should India do for its youth?

Problem of Unemployment in India:

The Indian Economy is one of the fastest growing economies of the world, therefore, ‘lack of economic growth’ cannot be the cause of unemployment. Yes, the other reason ‘lack of talent in youth’ can be the cause of unemployment in India. The emphasis of Government of India to impart skill education in youth and unemployed people; can change the whole situation and may help India to get rid of problem of unemployment. In India, most of the people who are counted as unemployed are also engaged in part-time jobs or businesses. There are very low number of people doing nothing except taking money from their parents to spend for meeting their financial requirements.

Expectations of Youth from Government:

Due to promises of political parties and rising economic growth of the nation, youth coming out from colleges, institutions and universities expect from Government a full-time employment either in public or private sector organizations. No doubt, Government has full potential to generate employment but there is another problem i.e. lack of skills or employ-ability skills in the youth. Most of the people are getting engaged in businesses of services than manufacturing firms. The production of goods is not generating more jobs than the service delivering companies. Due to rise in the demand of services relating to information technology, most of the jobs are related to information technology, and e-services relating to businesses, processes, and governance.

Pleasure from available Employment Opportunities:

The employment and jobs presently available to unemployed youth are not providing pleasant experiences. Due to rising expectations of the youth, the presently available employment opportunities are either offering less salary packages or demanding more time to spend in organizations. The work environment in private organizations has become more complicated than earlier. With change in organizational processes with ‘Business Process Restructuring (BPR)’ and ‘Government Process Re-engineering (GPR)’; the pleasure of employees reduced significantly. The expenses to maintain the job and status in society are increasing while the salaries are not increasing as per the work burden. Due to rise in the number of unemployed youth, there is more competition to realize the job.

Trouble due to low-quality jobs than qualifications:

We studied ‘dignity of labour’ and found that no work is smaller to earn living. But higher the qualifications, higher the level of jobs are searched by the unemployed youth. Due to more people being educated every year, the employment opportunities cannot be generated at higher levels; even the higher level posts require more experienced people to be employed. After completing the education, the unemployed youth search for the higher level of jobs while such jobs are rarely available; which make others unemployed. Now, a trouble comes while accepting low-quality jobs than the qualifications.

Due to this reason, most of the unemployed people, start giving coaching than accepting low-quality jobs. Those who accept low-quality jobs left after a few time.

Reservation in Jobs:

The talented people sometimes face the problem of reservations in jobs and due to such reservations; found themselves better to leave the country. They fly outside India and get employed in Multi-National Companies (MNCs) or even in Government of other nations at reputed posts. The reservation system in India, is a curse for the talented people at the time of getting educated and be employed. More than 50% of the jobs are reserved for the people from reserved castes and due to such reservations; they opt to leave the country by clearing IELT followed by seeking PR Visa.

 Remedies to the Economic Problem of Unemployment in India

1. Minimum Income or Unemployment Allowance:

The Government of India is committed to provide the jobs to each unemployed youth and in case, anyone remained without job with very less family income; the Government offers unemployment allowance till the time, the person not get employed. The Government ensures a minimum income for each family so that the problem of poverty can be tackled and people can easily live their life with meeting their basic needs. The farmers are struggling to earn reasonable incomes, then the Government is showing its commitment to double farmers’ income and also making it possible to reduce the economic inequalities in whole nation. 

2. Bridging gap by Skill Development Programmes:

The Singapore Government decided to run a number of programmes for workers to acquire new skills and find jobs. Around the world, the economists are suggesting to impart digital skills in employees as well as in unemployed youth, for improving their capacities in using data analytics. Even in India, the Government admitted that the retraining efforts are most important to reduce the skills gap. The problem of unemployment poses a challenge among most of the nations around the world. Both the developed and developing economies are facing unemployment; a few are facing this problem due to lack of economic growth while others are facing due to lack of talent in youth.

3. Encouraging Small Scale Industries and Start Ups:

However, Indian Government has taken initiatives for promoting Small Scale Industries and Start Ups but the Start Ups are not being successful due to Minimum Wages for a labourer is too high and in case, anyone is hired in India, the corruption due to various compliance of policies of Government put hurdles in the activities of the Small Scale Industries. For example, the minimum wages is Rs. 9,000 while the labourers being hired by the Small Scale Industries cannot contribute to that extent in terms of productivity due to lack of opportunities to the Small Scale Industries. This is a practical problem. Government should either decrease the minimum wages in case of Start Ups or provide subsidies to Start Ups to promote employment.

4. Public Sector Employment Opportunities should be increased:

When Government itself using disinvestment and selling its enterprises, how the confidence will come in the private players to run such enterprises. The ultimate result is that the private players also started to retrench the employees and take more work from the hired individuals with the use of technologies. The employment rate is continuously falling.

Government should set up new industries, new departments, new undertakings and own the responsibilities to provide the employment instead of encouraging private players to do so.

Conclusion:

There is a lot of things in the hands of Government to perform for increasing the employment in India. The Government can transform the entire picture. The excess use of technology even imported technical gadgets, machineries are replacing the manpower which is not suitable for India, one of the most populated country. The manpower should be available at cheaper rates by reducing the minimum wages so that the private organizations prefer to employ than to use mechanical solutions to speed up production. It is true, "Self Motivation to perform better than yesterday, is the key to success"

I would like to request you to kindly suggest to incorporate your ideas in this article. With thanks.

*Copyright © 2020 Rashmi.  

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