Understanding the Patterns of Unemployment in Ukhrul District of Manipur

The reason or causes of unemployment may differ in different settings, but in order to address the crisis of unemployment in any setting one has to first understand the patterns of the unemployment in the area. One of the major mistakes that are often committed by policy makers is of looking at unemployment as one homogeneous concept and attends to it accordingly. But as unemployment has different types and patterns so its cure is also different. Hence the present study attempts to understand the patterns of unemployment in Ukhrul district of Manipur where it is one of the pertinent impediments the youths are facing.

The study reveals that most of the educated respondents are facing the problem of underemployment. Moreover, the huge rise in the number of educated unemployment is encouraging the employers to pay even low wage to the respondents and force them to work in poor working condition. It is also revealed that the instances of entrepreneur endeavours is not coming up mainly because of lack of infrastructure as communication facility, loan facility, electricity supply etc., which is why most of the respondents are thinking of joining insurgent groups and it also reveals the real reason for the increasing participation of youths of the area in these insurgent movements.