Unemployment problem should be seriously addressed: Zia Masood

Special representative of President in reforms affairs and good governance is said to consider the ministry of Labour and Social Affairs functions is not satisfactorily to solve unemployment problem in the country.

Ahmad Zia Masood, Special representative of President in reforms affairs and good governance said with each day passing, unemployment increases in the country and the ministry of Labour and Social Affairs had done nothing.

Masood declared that unemployment problem should be seriously addressed and stressed that the ministry had no systematic plan to eradicate unemployment problem.

“The government is responsible to wipe out unemployment from the country and the ministry of Labour and Social Affairs should have serious plans for this problem.” Ahamd Zai Masood Said.

However, officials in ministry of Labour and Social Affairs are said to consider the existence of a parallel administration in hiring individuals challenging.

They demand that Administrative Reform and Civil Service should be integrated with the ministry.

They said that the sectoral ministries should cooperate with ministry of Labour and Social Affairs that the unemployment problem eliminated.

Though there is no exact statistic about the rate of unemployment in Afghanistan, it is said that some 40 percent of the country’s 25 million populations are jobless and some 5 million Afghans live under poverty line in the war-battered nation.

Majority of Afghans have little access to clean water, job, job insurance and regular income to run their daily life smoothly.