INDIA COLLAPSING ON ITSELF.

  Please read my very brief comments.

• confrontation between brutal police and peaceful students in Delhi 
• demos after 2.2 million students sat for entrance exam 
• authorities cancelled completed exams
• because question papers leaked, available for sale
• 16 May, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founded online
• India’s chief justice said unemployed youth “cockroaches”
• after three weeks, first CJP student demonstrations in Delhi
• leading to a massive round-the-clock protest
• Students attacked
• Widespread support for protests quickly grew across India
• police attacked students violently, using teargas, anti-riot guns 

• 1.45 billion population, 65% (950 million) under 35 
• 40% unemployed or not in education
• 16% of 15-29 age group unemployed
• 40% of 15-25 age group unemployed
• less than 7% of male graduates find job within one year of graduating

• govt failed to reform corrupt, ineffective education systems 
• failed to generate adequate job opportunities 
• social liability and political risk for govt 
• disillusioned young voters feel let down
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• last weekend Modi caved-in to mass protests for third time 
• Modi sacked education minister, students’ primary demand
• removed top education bureaucrat
• first was 2019 protests in north-east India delayed controversial citizenship laws 
• Then 2021 agricultural laws cancelled after mass protests by Punjab famers
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• task force to reform mass leakage of exam papers 
• Compensation for families of 21 medical students committed suicide 
• quality of public education remains poor
• primary schools lack books and reliable teachers 
• universities inadequate in qualifications of graduates 
• massive corruption at all levels, leaking exam papers
• Inability to generate jobs
• Jan 2022 - 12 million applicants for 35,000 low-level jobs in Railways 
• Frustrated youth blocked tracks, set train coaches on fire in poor Uttar Pradesh
• nationwide demos when military jobs replaced with four-year contracts
• led to highway blockades, hunger strikes and arson
• by John Elliott, Asia Sentinel’s South Asia correspondent

MY COMMENTS: For the vast majority of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis they have no future. Hello Dato-Dato those of you who are involved in human trafficking, PATI cartels etc please take note. The people smuggling and illegal workers industry will be booming for many decades to come.

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.