Despite being educated unemployment rate among Kerala youth huge: Shashi Tharoor

Unemployment rate among the youth in Kerala is huge and there is a need to make the state more attractive for its younger generation to prevent them from going outside for jobs Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor said on MondayTharoor speaking at the inauguration of the 146th Mannam Jayanthi celebration at the Nair Service Society NSS headquarters at Perunna in Changanassery said unemployment among the youth in Kerala was 40 per cent in June 2022Mannam Jayanthi is held to celebrate the birth anniversary of NSS founder and social reformer Mannath PadmanabhanHe said only Jammu and Kashmir was in such a situation but that was due to militancy problems thereNo other state is showing such concerning figures of unemployment among the youth In other states those uneducated or unskilled are the ones lacking jobs However in Kerala everyone is literate educated and has passed class 10 yet a lot of them do not have jobs the Thiruvananthapuram MP saidTharoor said 35 lakh professional and technical jobseekers including 9000 medical graduates were registered as jobseekers in the southern states employment exchangeAlso Read Indian Army has peoples full support Shashi Tharoor on clash with Chinese troopsOf the 35 lakh jobseekers around 71 per cent have ITI certificates he addedThis is the state of affairs in Kerala Therefore there is no doubt that the state needs to open its doors to bring in more investment We need to create more employment opportunities he saidThe MP said that a lot of youngsters are going outside the state for job opportunities and that should be seen as a loss for KeralaWe must make Kerala more attractive for our young people was a solution he offeredSukumaran Nair the general secretary of NSS said during the event that when Tharoor came to contest polls from Thiruvananthapuram he had called the latter Delhi NairTo rectify that mistake we have invited him here for this event According to me there is no one more competent to inaugurate the celebrations Nair saidThe praise of Tharoor by Nair was welcomed by senior Congressman and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly V D SatheesanI welcome any praise of a Congress leader by anyone here in Kerala he told reportersSatheesan had recently initially expressed reservations over the Thiruvananthapuram MPs political outreach programmes in the southern stateWhen the alleged rift between Satheesan and Tharoor was widely reported by the media the LoP had refuted the sameIn his speech on the occasion Tharoor also said Padmanabhan who founded the NSS had once observed that one Nair cannot see eyetoeye with anotherHe said though the observation was made more than a century ago he has witnessed it during his political career an apparent dig at a few fellow Congressmen from the Nair communityInterestingly Satheesan also belongs to the Nair communityThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever