To save my boredom I acted as an journalist and wrote one report on rampant issue faced by government.

Youth unemployment rate down to 7.2%

Bhutan, the nation know for its happiness has almost 7, 00,000 (7 lakhs)  people living in the country in which more than 50% of it's population comprises of youth. The founder of Gross National Happiness (GNH), His Majesty 4th King always stresses further on youth and keeps in commemorating the importance of eminent youth as dignified asset of our country. Walking an talking about the youth unemployed in the country, Bhutan still has 7.2% of youth who are unemployed ans still under great vigor of finding their way to their destiny. Compared to previous year the rate of youth unemployment has declined by 2% and it is great accomplishment for the labor ministry for eradicating youth unemployment by 2%.

Upsurging in the number of youth dropouts and youth graduating every year is enormous challenge for the government officials a well as for the private sectors. Many of the youth desires joining government jobs than that of private job because job seeker sees more benefits in government jobs compared to private entrepreneurs. Moreover, the reason of upsurging in youth unemployment rate is because if rural-urban migration where all the young youth form rural places come to urban for healthier thoughts and lands up being unemployed. The major reason behind increase in youth unemployment rate is because of youth looking for standard job. Where they could find only few standard vacancies available and the number of youth job seeker exceeds the number of vacancies.

However, the survey of previous year showed that job vacancies available outnumbered job seeker. The total vacancies in 2011 stood at 7,814 and there were only 7,108 youth looking for jobs. This means, youth job seekers are not really interested in whatever the vacancies is being announced as a result the rate of youth unemployment remains at 7.2%. One of the official from Labour ministry said "youth unemployment is a result of mismatch of skills and expectations". He said even if job are available, people choose to remain unemployed.

In one of the private news paper, His Excellency Labour Minister said "if people are willing to work, we have enough jobs. For instance, we train about 10 people in laundry in Thailand, and after they come back we try to place then in some of the hotels, but the trainees are not interested in the job." The only thing Labour ministry can do is to carry out awareness campaigns and advocacies so that the youth are made aware of the reality.

For how long this perilous problem will continue? We wonder and everybody wishes to ponder the unemployed youth and the rate of unemployment. In Bhutan, at present there are more than 10,500 people without work and still struggling to get their place either in government or in private sectors.



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Jeopardizing my writing vigor......

                          MY IMPRESSION ON PARO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

My mother always wanted me to be a very responsible teacher and my father wanted me to be an Army officer. But I had no aim as such like my other friends do. And I never thought I’ll be joining this college at this last moment. It’s not because I had no option that I came here, but because I thought over things so carefully and realized it would be a very good and a secured job for a boy. And so I’m here in this beautiful college…where the hills oversee the beautiful valley of Paro.

                                                                          

It was at about 9:30am on the 20^th of March, 2011 that I really entered the college; I mean it was my first time coming here. Some of my friends have already been here, not as a trainee though. I was so new to the place but let me tell you, the campus is just so great! New student teachers started arriving one by one and I was happy to see very new faces because I love meeting with new people. After a while the councillors came to allot rooms for us. I was so touched with their kindness and the sacrifices they did for us, the 1^st year batches. They had to shift their rooms to the old block and some even had to share their beds. They let us feel homely. For old hostel each room have a capacity of 2 to 3 boys and for new hostel the room have the capacity of 4 boys. I am so happy to have my previous school mate as my room-mates.

Our hostels are kind of far from our academic block and we have to walk down to our academic block passing our dining room, basketball court, and the senior lecturers quarter. We are divided into five sections of Primary Curriculum A, Primary Curriculum B, Primary Curriculum C, Primary Curriculum D and Primary Curriculum E. The lecturers are so interesting and yes, very encouraging.  Things here are different from our high school, the names especially. In the school we call the monitors by a different name while it’s different here. We call them the captains; here it’s class coordinators, councillors and the chief councillor. We call our educators the teacher and it’s the lecturer here. It’s just so different.  We have to do about 4-5 modules (subjects) a semester and we’ll be starting with new modules the next semester.  Actually we have two semesters a year, namely the spring semester and the autumn semester.  We have assembly only once a week i.e. on Wednesdays for only the 1^st year student teachers, the 2^nd year student teachers do on Tuesdays and the senior-most do on Mondays. The assembly’s a great one. We do our prayers, and then a kind of meditation that fresh our mind and the director/the assembly coordinator updates us with the important event for the day. The assembly’s for an hour i.e. 8:30-9:30 am.

Well…about the mess, I feel it’s satisfactory and I understand that it couldn’t be better than this because it’s not preparing only for me or just a few students but it’s preparing for the whole borderer. We get meat the alternate days but frankly speaking there’s got to be something special for those who are vegetarians, when they provide meat for the non-vegetarians. Other wise it’s just fine. 

The library here is very interesting. It has a vast number of books which seems very productive and worth entertaining. It’s very different from the school library, where we usually find fiction books. But here we see more of references than novels because we have to do more of research. And it’s a pin drop silence in here…just the real library. 

In short, I would say that I've come to the right place. Whatever happens happen for good and it’s because of our deeds we did in our past life that happens to us in this life. So I guess I did a very good deed that I got an opportunity to come here and prove myself to be a very responsible son, caring brother, loving friend and yes, a very proud citizen or a teacher of the nation. I think, I mean I KNOW I have achieved a part of Gross National Happiness goals.

 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

GREATNESS

Start to be Great

                                 

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. In order to succeed and become great you must start working, change your thoughts into ideas and ideas into actions. If you keep your ideas idle, then they will reel down to stump and the effort made becomes meaningless.

As rightly said, by Albert Einstein,“Stop concentrating on problems but focus more on solutions”. We have to erase our negative thinking, and instill the serenity of solving the problems with much determination. If your destiny is far behind the sea, you must start sailing from the other side of the sea. In between you will encounter various difficulties, but what is important to bear in mind is to challenge the worst to attain your goal. Behind every difficulty, there is always a gift of goal. As a saying goes, “to complete thousand strides you must start with a single step”. Every successful person starts the journey of destiny with a small dream and later strives to make it big with great profound zeal, tempo and meaning. Adversity, after all, is the greatest teacher. Remember, there is no motivation without a challenge.

If you haven’t start working, start now, it is never too late.  Every day and anywhere is an opportunity to learn to live, if you are not learning you are not living in this perilous cosmos. Learn through mistakes and learn every single minute, as learning is only the key to open your lock of destined goal. You cannot open a book without learning something, so learn something and open your books with your optimal learning capability. You will see the magic unfold. You shall reap what you have sown.

“Learn today and earn the wisdom of knowledge tomorrow”

RRREADING-A LADDER TO WISDOM

Reading is what we read and what we understand from the print. Almost everything we do in life requires knowledge. Therefore, one of the sources of knowledge is books.
The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we grow, the smarter we grow, the stronger our voice becomes. Speaking to our mind and making the choice is indeed learning through innovation and that is possible only if we read. Many of us spend great sums for satisfying our needs and wants but we don’t care to buy books. But there is nothing more precious than books. Learning never exhausts our mind instead it inspires us and gives us the ladder of wisdom.
Most people say they lack speaking skills. The art of speaking comes when we read and become voracious reader. There is no doubt becoming a fluent speaker if we are a constant reader. I consider reading as a discount ticket because if we want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures, the expenditure is more and many pupils have fear of losing money but if we buy books and read, we know the different cultures and we can use the wings of books to fly all over the world. So this is the ‘Discount Ticket”.
Pupil read for two purposes, first for pleasure and second for improving their vocabulary. For me I read for both purposes because it improves my vocabulary as well my speaking. I read to exercise my mind and to store the jewels of knowledge to use it today and tomorrow.
I end with a message to the reluctant readers that when you are bored, or feel lazy and sleepy please walk into a library and sit with a book because library is a hospital to cure your boredom and laziness .I promise you that if you read today, you will lead tomorrow
“READ TODAY AND LEAD TOMORROW”

Report on Mess.

PCE Mess

Photo: Dawa

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry says if we want to keep our vigor healthier we should get apposite nourishment but schmoozing about the mess in the college, the condition is poor. A student trainee pays Nu.850 from their stipend per month as a mess charge. According to some students who are availing hostel says their grievances are never considered instead they have to eat the nourishment under compulsion.

Talking to some ladies, they say the food they get is neither virtuous nor deprave because the amount paid to the mess proprietor is very less and it rarely costs Nu.10 per plate which is adequate.

There are more than 300 students who are consuming the mess food. Out of that some of them are vegetarian and some non-veg. The curry served to vegetarian are not comparable to that of non-veg. Talking to the head cooks, they say they are trying and depositing their hard work to make best out of it and to make two items for more than 300 students is thought-provoking. One of the students told “as far as I know they try not to vex us by giving crude curry”.

Beholding at the place the sanitation is poor. We can see lots of leftover food on the table, and the eater simply goes without thinking to clean his own table. Whose responsibility is it? The mess in charge Councilor Tshewang Gyeltshen was the right person to ask. He said that it is his/her responsibility to clean the tables after the consumption. In other colleges the cooks have their dress code and it looks clean with their dress worn, talking about the college mess they don’t have dress code as well and it looks imperfect without the dress.

In previous semester there used to be schedule attached on the wall and according to the menu they used to feed the students, now there isn’t any menu and whatever is available the store they give to us. Beholding on another site, it is not fair for the student to eat whatever cook cooks for them. “These food issues have been like the culture preserved in the hostel for long time and no one is looking after the welfare of poor trainees” said by one of the aged trainee. We think someone should tackle these issues but whom do we blame, whose responsibility is it? For how much these culture will exist? We wonder and everybody looks to find ponder who can help the poor trainees.