LBS Marg

 

ELECTION 2024 - JOB MELA 

Vashi

 

Girgaon

 

Marine Street

 

Youth Time Bomb - The demographic dividend.

Chembur-Govandi Road

Youth Time Bomb: Tracking the economic dividend

Above: The youth leader Shiv Sena is projecting as a possible CM candidate outside a college.
Below: Next to the above sticker

Vile Parle Station - Youth Time Bomb

Youth Time Bomb 

(Photographing the demographic dividend) 

Next time you pass by Vile Parle, look out for the number of students who get in and off the trains. The education hub of Mumbai.

It's election season and I would like to draw your attention to this India Spend article that has numbers. It says, Why Masses of Jobless Youth May Reduce The BJP In UP.  The headline and story exist because of the election but the numbers are about the long term reality that we have been experiencing. Here is something that points to the real problem which states have addressed: Education.


"There is a “mismatch in the demand and supply of education and skills” that translates into unemployment, said a 2017 International Labour Organisation report. Though there is a shortage of skilled labour, workers are often not trained in different skills primarily due to lack of education and awareness about opportunities. The high rate of unemployment among educated youth, said the report, was a “matter of concern”." 



India Spend also asks: Less than 5% of India’s workforce is formally skilled, compared to China’s 20%, South Korea’s 96%, Japan’s 80%, Germany’s 75%, United Kingdom’s 68% and the United States’s 52%, according to the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship’s annual report for 2015-16. Why is India lagging so far behind?

The answer is here. 

Kurla Station - Job advertisements

Youth Time Bomb - Jobs

Employment ads on the side of an AH Wheeler and Co. bookstall on Platform 6, Kurla Station.

Wadala Junction - Teens playing PUBG

Playgrounds of Mumbai - PUBG Gamers

PUBG has caught the attention of the old men in the country who are addicted to Whatsapp and the hate propagated on it by them. Here are a group of college students having a PUBG session in a railway station. 

Goregaon Station

Feb 14th Vs Feb 15th outside Goregaon Station.

Shivajinagar

Youth Vs Old : Music, DJ, Dhol banned but loudspeaker for old mullahs and old men to scream always on. 

Deonar Farm Road + Goregaon

#youthtimebomb (photographing the demographic dividend) 

 Injustiss.


 Like most other democracies in the world now, india too is seeing a backlash from the haves against the havenots especially for access to higher education. But the haves in India looking for education is being wooed by France and Brexit England to help fund their universities. Where will you send your children?

CSMT + Deonar Farm Road

Youth Time Bomb (Photographing the demographic dividend):

At the newspaper vendor outside the CSMY/VT exit, a separate stand for recruitment related publications. Because jobs, jobs, jobs. The more things change, the more it remains the same. 

Off PL Lokhande Marg

#youthtimebomb (photographing our demographic dividend)

 Incremental march

                                backwards

 Your future is

                      competing

in

 Fancy dress competitions

Govandi Statiom

Youth Time Bomb (Photographing the demographic dividend):
Vote with your feet. Acche din is arriving in the Middle East.

Borah Bazar Street

Youth Time Bomb (Photographing the demographic dividend):

HSC (Standard 12) examination centre

Sion Panvel Highway

22 Jan 2018. Tracking the demographic dividend or our youth:

A few images of the roadblock set up by men on bikes (not in pics) supposed to belong to a RW caste supremacist group opposing the movie called Padmavati at Vashi. The cops cleared the roadblock immediately. 

Madame Cama Road (Dr Ambedkar Statue Chowk)

Introducing a new series: Youth Time Bomb (Photographing the  demographic dividend)

What do the youth want and what do they get? Maybe the streets of Mumbai should will offer some clues. One thing they desire outside Mumbai University's city campus is some peace and quite and the local MLA or exMLA has provided a quite place for students to study.