The violence and arson by the students in Bihar reminds me of what I had written a few months ago, ;
Corona is not going to go without leaving a deep impact on the society , The pandemic is likely to have SOCIAL- POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS as deep as the World War 1 and 2 had. Refer ;
Did We Know Our Room Was Full of Dust - I?
https://www.bharatamrising.com/challenges-features-2/did-we-know-our-room-was-full-of-dust
Pandemic will have Social, Eco and Political Ramifications.
The reasons for this pandemic to have a multi dimensional impact on the society and nation are as follows;
One. The situation had turned so grim in 2020 and 2021 that the administration was left clueless. In Wave One, The abrupt shutdown in left millions stranded, who later on lurched back to their homes hungry and in disheveled state. In Wave 2, There was an acute shortage of medicines (Remsdvir) , acute shortage of Beds, acute shortage of Oxygen and obviously shortage of Health care staff in many states. The Patients were running from one hospital to another in search of beds. Those who lost their near and dear ones due to the callousness and indifferent attitude of Administration cannot forget and forgive those who were responsible for the misgovernance. Particularly when the Govt has still not done anything to improve its Hospitals and health care system and the sick have still to be taken to the Private hospitals.
Two. Besides adversely impacting the industry, the business, the economy, causing loss of earnings, loss of employment , it has also adversely impacted the Indian justice system, which was already under great stress and was barely able to maintain some sort of law and order in the society. When Judiciary is impacted , it leads to Anarchy.
Three. As the economy suffered a setback and has shrunk, it is natural that the millions of young will be out of jobs. More over the young ones coming out of the institutions do not have the requisite skills that can help them to get employment, the virtual classroom education cannot make you a Good engineer or a technician. As such the Skill development has always been an issue in India and despite the reports from CII and other agencies, the Govts and the society did very little towards Skill development. A CII report indicated that out of 100 applications received barely 15 are employable and out of 85 unemployable almost two third i.e. 56 are not even trainable.
In the bargain, it is not surprising that for a vacancy of a Peon in a Govt office, one finds thousands of applicants applying that too PhDs, Engineering graduates and MBAs. This is also an indication that in the absence of requisite skills and also little investment by the Private sector in UP and Bihar, the young ones are dependant on the Govt for jobs.
In view of the above, it is not surprising that the frustrated students resorted to violence, because for how long this dose of Religion can keep the young and the countrymen intoxicated. People need jobs and money to manage their homes. The price rise has already broken the back bones of many homes.
We just had a farmers’ stir that went on for many months, we had anti CAA protest that ended in violence, arson and bloodshed but the Govt skillfully managed to wriggle out of all this mess.
If the respective State Govts and the Central Govt do not address this problem of Unemployment there is likely to be a social unrest on various other reasons ; Price Rise, deteriorating Law and Order Problem and may be for some other reason.
No society is ever bereft of disgruntled elements however when those causes of disgruntlement start impacting the Common man, the Govt must sit up and take a Note of it and take immediate corrective measures to address their grievances or else they may soon lead to social unrest and violence.