Tuesday September 29, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Every morning hundreds of people holding their work instruments gather in Kabul and other provincial centers key intersections in the hope to find a job and support their families but majority of them return home with empty hand. Mir Afghan a local wage owner complaining on unemployment said, “Every early morning I go to intersections in Kabul to find a job, but I fail for 20 days to find a job, “Unemployment is a big problem affected most societies but it differs due to economic stability of certain countries. In the third world countries, unemployment is the most urgent concerns both for people and rulers. Mohammad Akhter a university graduate believes that it is the government responsibility to provide employment opportunities for people specially youth so they would not submit themselves unintentionally to human traffickers and don’t departure to other countries. While the NUG has made serious efforts to create job facilities but unfortunately still, it’s an urgent problem with no solution. Whenever every morning, an employer arrives in an intersection to find only few wage owner workers for a small construction, his car is surrounded by large number of job seekers and the employer and job seekers haggle on wages. According to an annual report of ILO, despite of investment of multimillion dollars global aids in Afghanistan in the last 13 years, thousands eligible workers are unemployed. In rural areas, the job opportunities are rare than urban areas. Nesar Ahmad Askarzada