Call to create jobs for the unemployed in Khulna
Thursday, 20 March 2008
FE Report
KHULNA, Mar 19: Thousands of educated and literate young people are leading miserable life due to acute unemployment in the region.
Many of them have been earning their living by illegal means like smuggling and drug peddling. As a result, other young people are being adversely affected.
Even the incidents of suicide have increased due to the torment of unemployment.
According to sources, not a single industry has been set up in Khulna division during the last 35 years.
Once about 1,000,000 people earned their livelihood working at some state-owned industries (SOI) like jute mills, textile mills, newsprint mill and hardboard mill but those have been closed down by the government.
The sources further said only at the jute sector, over 500,000 people had been engaged in different jobs.
After the closure of some SOIs, many workers became unemployed and got frustrated.
After the closure of newsprint mills and jute mills in Daulatpur and Khalishpur, the areas have become a permanent den for drug addicts and smugglers.
Properties worth billions of taka are being stolen and plundered from the residential quarters and abandoned offices in Khalishpur and Daulatpur.
In the present situation, immediate government steps had been sought to open the SOIs for creating job opportunities for unemployed people, sources added.
KHULNA, Mar 19: Thousands of educated and literate young people are leading miserable life due to acute unemployment in the region.
Many of them have been earning their living by illegal means like smuggling and drug peddling. As a result, other young people are being adversely affected.
Even the incidents of suicide have increased due to the torment of unemployment.
According to sources, not a single industry has been set up in Khulna division during the last 35 years.
Once about 1,000,000 people earned their livelihood working at some state-owned industries (SOI) like jute mills, textile mills, newsprint mill and hardboard mill but those have been closed down by the government.
The sources further said only at the jute sector, over 500,000 people had been engaged in different jobs.
After the closure of some SOIs, many workers became unemployed and got frustrated.
After the closure of newsprint mills and jute mills in Daulatpur and Khalishpur, the areas have become a permanent den for drug addicts and smugglers.
Properties worth billions of taka are being stolen and plundered from the residential quarters and abandoned offices in Khalishpur and Daulatpur.
In the present situation, immediate government steps had been sought to open the SOIs for creating job opportunities for unemployed people, sources added.