Hiring procedure and hurdles of unemployed youth.

The latest episode of Jarga Maraka (debate and council) shed light on the hurdles of unemployed youth due to the different testing authorities, fee structure and examination procedure.

Unemployment is rising day by day, every year hundreds of Universities produce millions of graduates of different fields, and each graduate striving to get a suitable job in the market. Unfortunately, due to tough competition they have to proceed by appearing for various tests and interviews of different testing authorities. Moreover, program shed light on the fee structure of these testing authorities, the varied ways they adopt for conducting the examinations and in majority of cases, no reply or feedback is given to the candidates.

Mr. Arif Yousaf, special Assistant to CM KP and Mr. Inam Ullah, a senior Journalist were the studio guests in the show. Replying to the questions of presenter and callers Mr. Yousaf said, we adopt NTS, KPTA for hiring to keep and maintain the merit among the candidates. He accepted the fact that the fee structure of 300 to 1000 Rupees creates hurdles towards striving for gainful employment amongst the unemployed youth, as each one is contesting more and more examinations in order to get a suitable job. He promised the CRSS listeners to take up this cause with the CM, hoping to subsidize the fee of NTS etc.

A report was made part of the show, in which the statistics were shared of different examinations and income of testing authorities.

We received 15 calls, out of these 11 calls were aired live.

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Sabawoon airs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It is designed to highlight the local issues and promote the fundamental governance values, such as democracy, rule of law, women’s rights, and equal citizenry. The show airs Monday through Thursday every week under four themes on FM-101.5 Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan 711 KHZ from 3:20 PM to 4:00 PM. On Monday, Jarga Maraka covers current affairs and important regional issues with an input from government and other senior officials. On Tuesday, Da Simay Jaaj gives an overview of the top stories from KP and FATA regions. Jwandai Jazbey airs on Wednesday and deals with issues of relevance to, and significance for, youth, students and women. Socio-cultural affairs are discussed in Ranra on Thursday.