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◆ Son has been taking exams across the country for three years, but has no job; however, he was selected in Agniveer
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In Mumbai, Sushil Thakur, who runs a traditional massage business, is still working hard at the age of 48, going door to door every day. This business has been in his family for two generations. For the past three years, he has been spending a large portion of the income from his daily labor on his son’s competitive exams for government jobs.
Sushil Thakur’s son is now 22 years old. He travels to different states across the country to take exams for recruitments in various government departments. The father supports the exam fees, travel costs, accommodation expenses, and other preparation costs through his daily hard work. However, despite three years of effort, he has not been selected for any government job. Frustrated by this, Sushil Thakur has directly shared his grievance with the central government and the country’s Prime Minister. He says, “My son takes many exams, but he is not selected anywhere. What is really going on in these recruitment processes is a question that an ordinary family faces. If after taking so many exams, there is no success, it raises doubts about the system.”
Notably, his son also took the exam for the ‘Agniveer’ recruitment and was selected in that process. Sushil Thakur raises a question on this point. He says, “My son was selected in a scheme that does not provide guaranteed government service or other traditional government job benefits after four years. But in other regular government jobs, he has not yet received an opportunity. How exactly does this happen?”
Another aspect of his concern is his son’s increasing age. “Today, my son is 22 years old. If he returns home after four years of Agniveer service, he will be 26 years old. In our society, marriages typically happen around the ages of 23 to 25. If he does not have a permanent job after four years, what will happen to his future? He will face both employment and family issues,” he expresses with regret.
This story of Sushil Thakur is not just the lament of one father, but represents the unease in the minds of millions of young people and their families across the country. Due to competitive exams, recruitment processes, rising unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, many families are living under financial and mental stress.
Under the column ‘Grievances of the Common People’, similar problems, questions, and feelings of ordinary citizens are being brought before society.
