Kerajaan Perlu Cari Jalan Segera Bantu Graduan Berdepan COVID-19 – Zahid

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 Feb – Bagaimanakah nasib siswazah serta para graduan seluruh negara ketika ini setelah Malaysia dan dunia berdepan ancaman pandemik COVID-19 yang menyebabkan bukan sahaja golongan berkenaan malah kalangan mereka yang lain daripada pelbagai sektor turut menerima tempias?

Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi terpanggil memperkatakan soal berkenaan.

Beliau melontarkan persoalan apakah agaknya nasib yang akan berlaku kepada lebih 200,000 siswazah kerana ketika negara berdepan ancaman COVID-19 dan ekonomi yang tenat, graduan antara 772,900 individu di Malaysia tiada pekerjaan.

Justeru beliau berpandangan kerajaan perlu mencari jalan segera untuk membantu mereka termasuklah penyediaan skim usahawan mikro atau pinjaman boleh ubah berbentuk geran perniagaan untuk siswazah mungkin antara langkah yang wajar diperkasakan.

“Apa khabar sahabat semua terutama para siswazah kita yang sedang gigih mencari pekerjaan ketika industri dan ekonomi kelihatan suram…. Saya banyak menerima keluhan ibu bapa di media sosial mengenai perkara ini.

“Anak belajar tinggi tiada kerja. Hutang PTPTN tidak mampu dibayar apatah mahu membina kehidupan barupara ‘pejuang’ minta hapuskan Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) berkhemah berguling sana sini di Dataran Merdeka pun sudah tiada.

“Sebenarnya isu peningkatan pengangguran dalam kalangan graduan telah pun banyak diketengahkan pada tahun 2018. Ketika itu hampir 60 peratus siswazah peringkat pengajian Ijazah Pertama dan ke atas dilaporkan menganggur. Jumlah siswazah menganggur pada 2016 seramai 145,800 orang mengingkat mendadak kepada seramai 170,300 orang pada 2019,” katanya menerusi catatan di Facebook, di sini, hari ini.

Tambah Ahmad Zahid lagi, bagi tahun ini, jumlahnya dilaporkan meningkat antara 200,000 hingga 230,000 orang dan angkara pandemik COVID-19 serta ketidakstabilan ekonomi menyebabkan mereka menjadi sebahagian daripada mangsa. – UMNO Online

Find immediate ways to assist affected graduates – Zahid

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 – What is the fate our graduates during this difficult time?
UMNO President Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi commented on the matter, questioning the fate of more than 200,000 graduates in facing the threat of COVID-19 and the severe economic crisis. They are among 772,900 individuals unemployed as at now.
He is of the view that the government needs to find immediate ways to help them, including the provision of micro-entrepreneur schemes or variable loans in the form of business grants, and other measures.
“How are you my friends, notably our graduates who are diligently looking for jobs when the industry and economy seem gloomy…. I receive a lot of complaints on the social media about this.
“High school leavers do not have job. They cannot service their PTPTN’s debt, let alone planning a new life. In fact, the issue of increasing unemployment among graduates has already been highlighted in 2018. At that time, almost 60 per cent graduates of the First Degree and above were reportedly to be unemployed.
“The number of unemployed 145,800 graduates in 2016 has increased sharply to 170,300 people in 2019,” he said in a Facebook posting, today.
Zahid added that for this year, the number is reported to have increased between 200,000 and 230,000 amid Covid-19 pandemic and economic instability.
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