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Today, every field of education involves the system in which competent and confident young people aspire and achieve their goal, through ...

Today, every field of education involves the system in which competent and confident young people aspire and achieve their goal, through competitions. The attraction of financial security, status, respect in society, power and influence motivates thousands of young minds to select their career. But there are only a few, who get through. What about those who fail to make it in any competition ? These are the ones, who have to face the after effects as they are considered misfits in society, which results in inculcation of various psychological and social problems in them. Perceiving nowhere, they become the real sufferers.

The social pressure changes day to day behaviour of their friends and family members towards them. Psychologically, they are disturbed, for not fulfilling the expectations of their family. Perceiving their non-establishment in the better professional area, the whole burden cumulates on them. Adjustment is difficult after such failures. They face the problem of being a liability on their parents, of just spending time and money on competitions.

The anatomy of this problem, actually lies in the fact that, there are very limited seats available in all competitive examinations.

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The ratio of vacancies and competing aspirants is very high. Therefore it is in built in the process that the majority has to fail. Instead of taking such failures in the spirit of the weakness of the selection through competition process, the social set up starts finding faults in the competing individuals.

Therefore, opportunities getting a status (status continue changing quickly), a job even after such struggle becomes a rare possibility. Very few new jobs are being created, while the number of applicants has been increasing at a faster rate. It has a serious impact on the personality traits of the youth who, otherwise could be much more productive in a free environment.

The whole structure of economy and employment needs to be replanned according to specific local conditions. For instance Japan in its early phase after independence could shift from agro-based economy to household industry. It could reduce the blind rush of job seekers. A large part of population became entrepreneurs. On the other hand, we did not pay any attention to such models and as a result, number job seekers multiplied even in a state like Punjab where the agricultural economy bloomed. The Japanese also activated and involved joint family system in developing their economy. Whereas, in India, joint family system is under a serious crisis.

According to a psychiatrists the number of psychological problems and cases were increasing in the category of youth who are victims of social and psychological pressures due to their failures in competitions. In a nutshell, the roots of problem lie in the planning process and not among individual youth. The wrong diagnoses of the problem, seriously affects our creative and intelligent youth who are capable of bringing meaningful changes in the society.

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The writer is a B.A. III student in the Govt College, Sector 11.