Unemployment : Who Will Bear the Cost of Skill-Set Development?

Skills development for new or migrant workers/professionals may not always be enough. The government should also think about the population that is likely to become unemployed or non-productive due to adoption of newer technologies in different sectors. Use of modern machineries in factories is the demand of time for many sectors, in order to remain competitive in the international market. Advanced technology increases productivity, product quality and economies of scale. But it is making many professional positions obsolete and redundant. For example, typewriter operators or typists were gradually replaced by computer operators when computers came about around the late 1980s and 1990s. Now-a-days every new graduate is capable of typing at considerable speed and accuracy on computers. As a result, typists are no longer found in almost all offices of the country. Similarly, hundreds of embroidery machine operators were replaced by computer-aided embroidery machines later. In such ways, many other professions are going to be abolished within the next couple of years. This unused manpower would need to be shifted into a different skill-set. Otherwise this will add to the existing unemployed segment hampering economic growth