Loot Of Unemployed Youth BY PS Banks

In India 70 percent of population is unable to earn Rs.5000 per month or you can say that they are unable to earn their livelihood , simple bread to survive ,simple cloth to remain as civilized and simple comfortable place to live safely. Poor Indians get freebies like blanket or umbrella election gifts by politicians but cannot imagine of adequate medical care and quality education.

Government of India under the leadership of Mr. Kapil Sibal or Rahul Gandhi or Manmohan Singh can assure free admission in government run schools , free mid day meal with risk of poisoned and can assure of  free certificate of passing 10+2 examination without much hassle but cannot assure quality education at affordable cost so that he or she can afford getting higher education. 

Poor students are admitted in schools on registers freely and after lapse of ten to 12 years are offered pass certificate from government run schools without the guarantee of such students really suitable for admission in colleges of higher education. or being employable even for a clerk post in a public sector bank.

In the past, say in seventies or eighties, unemployed matriculates use to get chance in bank examination for the post of clerk without payment of any fee , either for submission of application form or for getting sponsored by any bank with guarantee of a job. But in the era of reformation, an unemployed youth has to bear the huge cost of applying for a job of clerk in a bank and appear for the exams. 

Poor who cannot afford food will be as reported in media, offered free meal under Food Security Bill, but they will never be in a position to get a simple job of clerk in a bank. And if the unemployed youth somehow or the other , by borrowing money from friends, apply for the job , he will not get the job because the job is normally  taken away by some of their friends enjoying higher privileges and who can afford some gifts and manage bank and who can manage IBPS  people managing the show. There is large scale corruption in recruitment in the country and there is none to stop malpractices .

Education, real education which makes a person employable is not meant for Indian poor who lives in villages or urban slums. Even middle class families are unable to afford the cost of primary or middle class education for their wards if they want quality education for their wards in good schools in towns and cities. They , Majority of Indians cannot dream of getting their children admitted in colleges of engineering and medical or MBA because there cost of education is not less than rupees one lac per year. 

Hardly five percent of Indians can afford higher education paying more than at least ten lacs rupees for a higher or professional course and hardly one percent of them can dream of really good quality of teachings in top colleges.It is remarkable to note here that most of higher study colleges are the property of rich politicians who are real seller of certificates of higher study.As such job in banks are hardly available to por Indians .

Employment opportunity for poor in India is really a day dream and they have to depend necessarily on alms offered by GOI under Food security Bill. Leaders of the country may make them beggar but not intelligent enough to get a job or to offer a job to other fellow Indians. The elite five percent of population in India may only dream of higher education and applying for a job and microscopic few of them can be a in a position to do something great which can offer job to others. As such job opportunities are not created in India, Industrial output is coming down and service sector is find it unfit to offer job opportunities to unemployed youth because of their financial sickness.

Indian Politicians are therefore showing only rosy pictures to majority of Indians only to get the votes. Their party manifestos are articulated for poor but in fact rulers of this country think for only crorepattis and billionaire who can in turn make Indian politicians happy , prosperous and crorepattis. 

Politicians are indulged in scams and involved in large scale corruption but do not have time and enough brain to give good governance and to really do something good for real poor of this country. They themselves are Non-performer, they cannot be expected of giving good performance and this is why often current UPA government led by Mr. economist Manmohan Singh is accused of suffering of policy paralysis and corrupt governance.

Unfortunately media men who are called forth pillar of democracy are puppets in the hands of the same rich people and rich politicians who enjoy perfect, absolute and unchallenged power. Lastly it will not be an exaggeration if someone says that they are none other than politicians who are creator of naxalism ,terrorism and all types of anti social activities and crimes which are taking place in our country. They have willfully keep police and judiciary beyond the reach of common men.

Congress Party has been winning election for last six decades by giving slogan of 'Garibi Hatao', But in fact Garibi (poverty) has grown by leaps and bound and this is why politicians are fighting in defining poverty to so that they can show poverty at subdued level and again win the election only by giving slogan.We used to be taught of Industrial revolution, white revolution and green revolution . Now Congress Party feel proud of MANREGA and Food Security Bill or Mid Day meal Yojna to make Indian great and to attain the leadership  in the world in poverty creation and to become pioneer in unemployment boosting exercise..

We were taught in school education that Atma (soul)of India lives in villages, three fourth of Indians depend on farming and India will attain real Swaraj (self reliant ) with the contribution of farmers and industrialists. Now the fact is just reverse to what we read. Now the three fourth of Indians  have  been reduced to almost begging and their survival  has been made dependent on Food Security Bill and the dream of Swaraj has turned into slavery of foreigners. Now survival of ecnomy of India depends on Foreign investors.The more FII and FDI, the more GDP growth and the more GDP growth , the more Garibi in India is the new mantra of Manmohanomics. 

Desh  Ki Atma mar chuki hai.

Read below an excellent article by Mr. Rajesh on pathetic position of unemployed youth and exploitation of them by Public sector banks.

PS Banks Are Now Exploiting Unemployed Youth – GoI  Needs To Take Action and Stop This Exploitation

by

Rajesh Goyal  

I think some of you may be shocked to read the above headlines.  But it is a fact.  Government which is struggling to decide the income level for people below the poverty line (Planning Commission says Rs 27 per day is sufficient to make you above poverty line), is keeping mum on the exploitation  of unemployed youth by PS banks.  Let me now give you a real food for thought.

I must admit that till a few weeks back, I like my readers, never realized that there is a exploitation of unemployed youth.  We never realized this as we belong to well off families and we can easily afford such fees for our children  I realized this, when I met certain poor students,  while preparing the free study material for unemployed youth at our new website www.BestGuru.com.    Let me start by giving certain facts :-

·         (A) IBPS has recently advertised for Common Written Examination  for recruitment to Probationary Officers which will be held sometime in October 2013.    Advertisement requires  :

o   Rs 600/- to be paid by General candidates for appearing in the exam.   Candidates are also in addition required to pay the transaction charges for online / offline fee payments;

o   To apply online (the internet café charges to be paid by the candidate as majority of the candidates will not have such a facility at their home, specially the poor in rural areas  will not have facility even for computers at their home);

o   Scan his photograph for which he has to incur the charges at internet café as majority of the candidates do not have this facility at their homes;

o   Go to the nearest branch of the Bank  - only 7 banks are allowed to accept the  offline payments.  This Branch is likely to be located even in other city for rural candidates) and deposit the offline payments.   In States like Tripura and Uttrakhand, such bank will be even at a distance of 50 kms or more.

o   Appear in the written test at select few centers at his / her  own cost.   In a State like Uttarakhand we have centers only at Dehradun, Haldwani and Roorkee.   In Tripura it is only at Agartala.   Thus rural candidates may have to travel upto 300 to 400 kms and stay at least for one night at the venue of centre so that he can reach the examination centre in time.  In case the candidate is a girl, she has to be accompanied by a guardian as nowhere in India a girl from poor strata can go alone and stay in a hotel and appear in exam.

o   In case he /she passes in written test, the candidate will have to appear at the centre which in all probability will be farther from the written test centre (as there are fewer  centers for interview).  No TA / DA is payable even if the candidate has to come from far away place.

All the above will need an expenditure of over Rs 2000/- per exam for a candidate from a rural area.

 (B) I have also come across a recruitment drive by Indian Overseas Bank under the heading “Recruitment of 480 Probationary Officers Through Tie Up with Academic Institution”.  A reading of the said advertisement is a BIG  cruel joke on poor Indians, on similar lines as statements of Sheikh Abdula that poor can get food for Re1 and Raj Babbar’s claim that in Rs12 you can have full meal in Mumbai.   I would like to highlight the following from the said advertisement :-

o   The ad reads ‘IOB has entered into MoU with MaGE, Bangalore to provide World Calss training in Banking and Finance to prospective candidates aspiring to join IOB as PO so that THEY ARE FULLY  EQUIPPED TO DISCHARGE THEIR DUTIES EFFECTIVELY FROM DAY ONE OF JOINING THE SERVICES OF THE BANK;

o   The course Fee will be Rs 3.30 lakhs plus service tax, which will be paid by the selected candidates (This can be taken as Education Loan from IOB) – The current RoI is 12.25% which translates into about Rs 3400 per month in interest or EMI of about Rs 7400/- pm for 5 years.

o   Candidates selected for appointment will be required to execute a Financial Service Bond for rendering service for a   minimum  period of 5 years. The amount of the Financial Service Bond presently is  Rs 2,00,000/- along with liquidation of  the loan amount at commercial rate of interest (if any) and the stipend received during the training period.

o   Most of other conditions are same as given for IBPS CWE except that here the Fee payable is Rs 500 instead of Rs 600

PS Banks keep on beating drums that they are pro-poor and our Government (now in election mode)  daily issues statements to show that they have a concern for the poor.

Leaving aside the controversy regarding fudged records for Below Poverty Line data, the latest GoI  data says that 22% of the population is Below Poverty Line.   Under the FoodSecurity Bill,  GoI says that subsidies food is required to be supplied to 67% of our population. 

An analysis of the above brings us to following  simple conclusions:-

(a)   A  youth from  22% of population (i.e. BPL) intends to appear for Bank Clerk or PO Exam, he must remain hungry for at least 75 days (i.e. to save Rs 2000 @ Rs 27 per day) – this does not include any expenditure for his books and other preparations;

(b)   A youth from 67% of population (i.e. eligible for food at subsidies rates under Food Security Bill) may need to remain hungry for about 30 days if he / she decides to appear for Bank recruitment examination;

(c)    In case of recruitment to Indian Overseas Bank under Training + Job scheme,  it can be only upper class of top 5% Indians who can afford the same.   In case the youth decides to avail of Educational Loan, he will have to shell out about Rs 8000/- pm for first 5 years of job, which is about  30% of his Gross Salary as per present scales. 

Now let us compare the recruitment of PS Banks with top IT or other sector leading companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Hindustan Leaver, P&G etc.   These companies too recruit workforce in thousands every year, much much more than most of our individual PS Banks.  Do they charge any fee for holding tests ?  Most of them even pay airfare if candidates are called for interviews from outstations.  How can they afford all this and able to get the get talent?   If  CMDs of PS Banks think of this, they will realize that  PS Banks are actually exploiting the unemployed youth.   All these companies give training to the new recruits at their own expense unlike IOB who has openly declared that they want Rs 3.30 lacs for training so that selected candidates  ARE FULLY  EQUIPPED TO DISCHARGE THEIR DUTIES EFFECTIVELY FROM DAY ONE OF JOINING THE SERVICES OF THE BANK.   I am not sure whether anywhere else in the world with such a large people below poverty line, specially in the PS Banks, we have such training fees for offering jobs.   It is disgusting and beyond my comprehension.   It indicates bankruptcy on the part of the HR people who have given such advertisements.

Only recently (28th July, 2013), a full page Ad by Indian Army has appeared for Pre Final Year University Entry Scheme for Men Permanent Commission (July 2015) has appeared.  Although it is for Engineers recruitment, yet It does not require to apply ONLINE.  I could not find mention of any fees for even applying or for training.   Thus everything is free and there is no bond etc though certain other terms like to remain unmarried during training etc apply.

Mr K C Chakrabarty, DG at RBI, who at the drop of hat, is ready to give a long lecture on Financial Inclusion, seems to be totally unaware of ground realities.   If he dreams of bring Financial Inclusion in banking without recruiting in banks from the poorest of the society,  it is nothing but a Day Dream. 

P.  Chidabaram, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tiwari, Rahul Gandhi who talk day and night about Food Security Bill needs to ponder on the issue as to whether we need to subsidies food for the poor through out his life or give him opportunity to at least rise above the poverty line by offering opportunity to appear for exam at free of cost.

It is a shame for CMDs of Banks that they want to exploit the unemployed youth by extracting money in the name of offering jobs to them.    These top brass CMDs do not lose an opportunity to have a photo session with Finance Minister by offering him a cheque of few hundred crores as dividend, and flash the same in all leading newspapers next morning by giving free lunches / dinners to news reporters of newspapers and news channels.  Have they ever thought that merely a sum of Rs 3 to 4 crores annually can give an opportunity  to lakhs of our poor unemployed youth to aspire for a dream in banking?    The huge dividends paid to GoI is drained in corruption.

In my youth I have done my Diploma in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management and even submitted a thesis on bank recruitments.   I want to remind  HR people in PS Banks  that people from poor strata of the society are mostly more hard working and / or ready to work in remote areas then candidates selected from rich strata or metros.   HR policy makers also needs to be aware that in case you fleece a candidate at the time of recruitment or put him under debt (through Educational Loan as per IOB advertisement), the candidate is likely to have a negative opinion right from beginning or he may indulge in corrupt practices to return the money he has borrowed.    It is a well known fact in HR circles that if you try to hold a person for too long by Bond or debt, the employee is likely to become disgruntled and finally a liability for the organization.   However, HR people in PS Banks follow only one policy – sycophancy and toeing the line of CMD.  They do not have any independent opinion of their owns.

It is a time for our PS Bank heads and our Ministers to realize the anguish being faced by YOUTH OF INDIA to find a job, or they will come on streets as has happened recently in cases of reservation in UPPSC exam and protests for removing the marks criteria in banking sector.

In the end I can only wish a good luck to poor aspirants for banking jobs and offer them free study material based on what I have learnt during my service.  I hope CMDs of banks too will review the fees to be realised from unemployed youth.    If you know any poor person (with a facility of internet), please tell him about the free content available at our above referred website so that at least he / she can save some money for studies.   If he / she does not have free internet facility, try to offer him this facility for few hours in a week so that he can upgrade his competition skills.

(Source : Allbankingsolutions.com)