Asad Umar’s Claim of Creating 10 Million Jobs In 5 Years
Asad Umar’s Claim of Creating 10 Million Jobs In 5 Years: In the 100-day agenda shared by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) recently, Asad Umar spoke about the possibility of creating 10 million jobs in 5 years. From 2015 to 2017, the unemployment rate in Pakistan was 5.9%, and it has not declined thus far in the current year.
The mechanism he proposed is as follows:
- Promoting tourism and announcing new destinations in an attempt to produce thousands of employment opportunities for the youth.
- He mentioned making an extra effort to attract investors in Pakistan and creating an economic link with China through China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Ultimately, enhanced investments and exports would create a bulk of jobs for the unemployed youth of Pakistan.
After all, one has to wonder, how it can be practical to produce 10 million jobs in a country with a population of 220 million, which mostly comprises of youth, who have the will and the energy to contribute to the job market.
There are two possible means to employ the lower middle class youth of Pakistan in creative work:
- either support small businesses
- offer jobs
Encouraging small businesses is of course important for it creates a multitude of jobs, but given the high rate of poverty in Pakistan, not many have the funds for a start-up. Thus, the other option is to hire individuals for salaried jobs, which is in many ways easier for the government to offer and manage, since supporting a business is a gamble that may not necessarily pay off.
New Universities opening will create jobs
Taking another aspect into consideration, if PTI forms the next government, and focuses on establishing new universities in Pakistan at a rapid pace, millions of jobs will automatically be produced.
We need thousands of universities to manage a population of 220 million, and it is no secret the government is struggling to provide, while the private sector is simply not enough to cater to our growing population. However, it is possible for the government to concentrate on establishing more universities in more areas of Pakistan, which would produce thousands of jobs as well as reduce illiteracy, again creating more potential in our unemployed youth.
Establishing schools and universities is thus the need of the hour, for if the existing number of schools is multiplied even by two at the end of five years, hundreds of thousands of jobs will have been produced. Similarly, tourism, as well as the billion tree project itself, will create more jobs, as the billion trees won’t take care of themselves.
Textile Industry can offer jobs
At the moment, the textile industry is lagging behind due to electricity shortages and the reduction of cotton crop in cotton growing areas. However, provided some facilitation by the government, this industry can offer thousands of jobs as well. Even the simple act of providing canal water to facilitate farmers in cotton growing areas, as well as assisting them in the purchase of pesticides and fertilizers, will end up creating more jobs in an industry likely to flourish.
His political opponents ridiculed him by dividing the 10 million jobs to the number of total months in 5 years, and further splitting it into days, hours, minutes and seconds, to create an impression that it is simply not possible for PTI to accomplish the task, and that this too is simply another election slogan. They compared this idea to the billion tree tsunami project, suggesting the billion tree tsunami does not exist, and neither will these 10 million jobs.
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