India's Rural to Urban Switch Creating Jobs Crisis

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59870297?

[PADA: Srila Prabhupada told us once, "In India there are a lot of students graduating from accounting schools. But there is no money to count."  

10,000,000 youths just now applied for 30,000 railway jobs, and there has been rioting and train burning etc. by frustrated applicants. Sorry, making India into a congested urban mess with all sorts of smog, bad and not sufficient city water, polluted rivers, poor roads, crowded trains and busses etc. is not the way forward. 

And Srila Prabhupada also said -- when the unemployment gets worse, the big cities will be dangerous places with lots of crime. That is happening almost everywhere now, not only India. 

In short, the technological economy brings good jobs only to fewer and fewer people. And with the new industrial robots being made, there will be even fewer and fewer jobs going forward. That is why Srila Prabhupada wanted the devotees to be in rural self-sufficient farms, where they could weather this storm more effectively -- and always be employed. Unfortunately, ISKCON leaders have not taken this task very seriously. 

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