Responsibility of Youth: Who cares for whom?

According to records of 2009, the total rate of youth unemployment in Bhutan was around 12.09%. It is because of the hard work and dedication of Ministry of Labour, they brought down the huge gap of unemployment drastically down in the year 2012. Approximately, today there is about 6.3% youth unemployment in Bhutan.

It is gloomy moment in our country that young educated Bhutanese who will be the future of the country seems to be losing their way in the dark side of the realm. Due to the change in time and due to the modernization in Bhutan, there are too many ways of diversion coming on their way as soon as they are unchecked from the vision of parents or teachers. How, who, when and where our youth will be showed and convey them to the perfection.

No agency of such are there to look after, and in the interim, they mislay their sentiment and embroil themselves in unproductive work advancing in doing what they are not supposed to do.

Today, the youth involved in substance abuse, making money in illegal ways and involving themselves in gang fights with no reason is common occurrences to be seen in Bhutan. The steady increase in Drop in centers in Bhutan signposts that there are more youths involving themselves in unproductive work. However, these centers are not able to avert one from trying out substance abuse.

In the 11^th Five Year Plan, the crime among the youth is listed as one of the emerging issues in Bhutan. Having listed and recognized the issues, one has to find an answer to overcome. Is anyone trying to address the issues and coming up with the elucidation?

Today, Bhutan is exporting happiness to the outside world, but having done nothing bringing happiness indoors, isn’t it an issue of immense interrogation to all of us. Bhutan’s future are sullying their own life and expecting nothing from anybody. If these possessions continue, will there be happiness left in our country. If one society enjoys the happiness and other side of the coin doesn’t, then can we express the meaning of happiness?

Every worried citizen is in the hope of some kind of agency who will step in and make the bad into good and bring right things in the right place. We take it for granted that it’s just a minor and nothing is done. But, when the minor turns into major, then the peril of realism is traumatized. Who will act and who will not, it’s just the apprehensions among those youth who wants to be successful in their life.

Partying, drinking and smoking are not only common amongst the youth who are unemployed. But youth who are working also does the same. The only alteration that makes between two is just the question of having and not having job and the way two rims think. Those who are employed and working are also interested in doing those things which other party does. Those who are employed are steadfast and meticulous fellows to make their life good. What so ever, given the chance and rooms for improvement those who are unemployed can also become productive citizen?

All we need to plug in at this stage is who will do what, and what will happen next. We wish and hope that in times to come, the crime rate among youths will decline and things will be working impeccably.  As quoted by Ernest Hemingway, “The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence”. Consequently, the error of youth shouldn’t be acknowledged but the substitute for their errors should be brought into the contemplation.