Tuesday February 16, 2016
Kabul (BNA) A number of Afghan youth blamed the government of national unity (NUG) for keeping tens of thousands of educated youth in uncertainty, while there are up to 51,000 of state posts with no incumbent.
They said they have their own documents from higher education institutes and seeking jobs, with the government failing to provide the eligible youth with the available vacancies within the government offices. An engineering faculty graduate, Massoud said the government should do its best to provide the educated youth with enough job capacities and put an end to the youth flee in the country. “I had hoped to be recruited as a government employee after graduation, but failed and now, I am disappointed of the government of national unity promises and don’t know what to do,” said Massoud who asked the government to prevent such critical condition. Thousands of youth, tolerating risks and dangerous trips have to leave the country, after failing to find jobs, despites having documents available. Some of them drowning in other countries’ seas, some being shot dead, and some losing their families members by the hosting countries deportation of the Afghan refugees. He said there were tens of thousands of empty posts in the government, but the educated youths are in uncertainty, because the government failed to honor its promises for rebuilding the country’s infrastructures and create job for the unemployed individuals.
The government should fill the empty posts with the educated youth.
Earlier, the ministry of labor and public affairs blamed the administrative reforms commission for failing to have enough monitors for the competitive tests that resulted in the slowness of the process, sending thousands of educated youths jobless. Wasel Noor Mehmand confirmed the available vacancies in the government offices for what he reasoned above. The process is going to slow due to the problem, said Mehmand who quoted the committee for administrative reforms and civil services to have announced the empty posts reaching 51,000, with each one being competed by at least ten applicants or more. According to the ministry of labor and social affairs, some seven million eligible youths are now facing unemployment or insufficient works, amid the growing hot reports on the youths’ flee from the country. Head of the National Laborers’ Union of Afghanistan, Maroof Qaderi said the government should be taken responsible by the nation for the emptiness of more than 50,000 vacancies in the government offices. The government should be asked by the people for why so high number of empty posts, with tens millions of uncertain educated youths, mostly with master and doctorate degrees.
This is while the secretariat for the administrative reforms committee, Zabihullah Sawiz rejected 51,000 posts empty in the government, but said there were 32,000 vacancies available, mostly related to the education sector facing lack of professional teachers, though he added there enough cadres to be employed in the related entities. He said some empty posts belongs to the municipalities not being abided by the reforms rule, while in some provinces this is too hard to send the committee’s representatives and monitors to oversee the lead and oversee the process. The last government led by ex-president, Hamid Karzai was not also empty of the problem, even the challenges facing the current system has originated from the failure of the past tenure, as Saifuddin Saihoon, an economic expert believed the availability of the 50,000 posts were concerning forcing tens of thousands of youths leave the country. The related affairs of the government offices are being controlled by unprofessional personnel, while there are thousands of professional ones living in uncertainty seeking jobs. Shukria Kohistani
