India’s Educated Youth Unemployment Crisis: When Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs
The Broken Promise of Education For generations, education in India was more than a personal achievement. It was a family dream, a social promise, and often the only visible road out of poverty, insecurity and humiliation. A degree was not just a certificate. It was hope framed on the wall. Parents sold land, took loans, cut household expenses, and sent their children to coaching centres, private colleges and distant cities because they believed one thing with almost religious faith: education will change our child’s life . A son studying in a small rented room in Delhi, a daughter travelling daily to a nearby college, a first-generation graduate preparing for a government exam in a small town — all carried the same promise: study hard today, live with dignity tomorrow. But for millions of young Indians, that promise is now breaking. They have degrees, but not jobs. They have ambition, but not opportunity. They have certificates, but not confidence. They have qualifications, bu...