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In young voters, aspirations slowly turn into anxiety -Roshan Kishore

-Hindustan Times

At 54.9 million, young men and women in the 18-30 age group constitute 36.5%of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh is home to 54.9 million young men and women who are in the 18-30 age group. That is approximately 36.5% of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections.

For an overwhelming majority of this cohort, the 2014 Lok Sabha and the 2017 state elections were all about aspirations. Contrary to what many believe, development was perhaps a bigger tailwind for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 2017 campaign than Hindutva. Today, these aspirations are giving way to anxiety.

These young men and women are desperately waiting for development and increasingly becoming worried by the winding down of state capitalism, which also means drying up of government jobs at all levels. The mediocrity of the education offered in most of the state, which does not boost employability in the private sector outside the state, has not helped.

At Barakhal village in the Medhaval assembly constituency in Sant Kabir Nagar district, HT met a bunch of young women who study in a new college near their village. One of their teachers present in the meeting described the predicament these students face.

“Students in our college start with dreams of cracking the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission), but they eventually settle for a government school teaching job,” he said, declining to be named. The disappointment on the face of the Geeta Maurya, a young Kushwaha woman in response to whose answer that she was doing B.Ed this comment was made, was palpable.

While private capital has not been forthcoming – young men going to other states for work is the norm – young students and their families have invested beyond their means to get education that will get them a job.

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