Appropriate Utilization of Human Resource
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Quetta City (The Provincial Capital) An Overview of the Job Market
Several thousand engineers, doctors, graduates and post-graduates are regularly coming out of universities and colleges in Balochistan and flooding the province's job market. But few can hope for decent jobs compatible with their qualifications.
The main reason is the province's economic backwardness and a practically non-existent industrial base or development infrastructure. The provincial government has been in a state of perennial financial crisis for the past many years. It has never implemented its annual development programmes (ADP) for want of resources.
The inflow of foreign funds or direct foreign investment is almost zero in Balochistan. Interestingly, debt servicing costs Balochistan around Rs6 billion, draining its resources further at the cost of economic development. The non-development expenditure is around Rs20 billion and the development outlay is around Rs8.5 billion.
There are two main universities in Balochistan, the University of Balochistan and the University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar, besides the Bolan Media College. All the three premier educational institutions are producing around 2,000 qualified post-graduates and graduates in different fields and trades every year.
There are scores of private colleges also producing graduates and technocrats, increasing the army of the jobless. Government departments, both provincial and federal, have 4,000 temporary vacancies in the Gwadar Port, Coastal Highway and other projects which are lying vacant.
Though at present the constitutional job quota of Balochistan is fixed at 6.5 per cent, but it was not practically implemented in the federal services and autonomous bodies and Balochistan was still getting jobs on the basis previously determined 3.5 per cent quota on the basis of population census.
The state of joblessness can gauged from the recently advertised
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Quetta City (The Provincial Capital) An Overview of the Job Market
Several thousand engineers, doctors, graduates and post-graduates are regularly coming out of universities and colleges in Balochistan and flooding the province's job market. But few can hope for decent jobs compatible with their qualifications.
The main reason is the province's economic backwardness and a practically non-existent industrial base or development infrastructure. The provincial government has been in a state of perennial financial crisis for the past many years. It has never implemented its annual development programmes (ADP) for want of resources.
The inflow of foreign funds or direct foreign investment is almost zero in Balochistan. Interestingly, debt servicing costs Balochistan around Rs6 billion, draining its resources further at the cost of economic development. The non-development expenditure is around Rs20 billion and the development outlay is around Rs8.5 billion.
There are two main universities in Balochistan, the University of Balochistan and the University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar, besides the Bolan Media College. All the three premier educational institutions are producing around 2,000 qualified post-graduates and graduates in different fields and trades every year.
There are scores of private colleges also producing graduates and technocrats, increasing the army of the jobless. Government departments, both provincial and federal, have 4,000 temporary vacancies in the Gwadar Port, Coastal Highway and other projects which are lying vacant.
Though at present the constitutional job quota of Balochistan is fixed at 6.5 per cent, but it was not practically implemented in the federal services and autonomous bodies and Balochistan was still getting jobs on the basis previously determined 3.5 per cent quota on the basis of population census.
The state of joblessness can gauged from the recently advertised