Completed Graduation? Applying for a job as a fresher, It’s a tough job, isn’t it? Yeah, it is. But It’s not as tough as it sounds. With proper work routine and awareness, you can land a job in a no time, that too of your interest. So it’s time to select the proper Job sector in which you want to get the job.

We can trace the history of this conflicted opinion between public and private sector jobs all the way back to the age prior to the 1980s. In those days, the only source of employment for the people in the average middle-class family who were moderately educated was the public or the government sector.

In 1980’s there were hardly any private sector jobs. The private sector had not yet thrived in India during those days and there was the minimal or negligible contribution towards the GDP of the country.  So, the government was their only and last source of hope, they clung to it with all their might and thus, job security became a priority.
Till this day Indians still prefer government over private jobs.

Every Job Sector has a Pros and Cons. Similarly, Government Sector and Private Sector have their own Pros and Cons. So let’s discuss on Pros and Cons of the Government and Private Sector in detail.

1. Recruitment Process / No of Vacancies – Government Jobs vs Private Jobs

Many people would assume, there is large no of Job Vacancies available in the private sector due to the rise in the industries being set up. But the fact is Government Jobs also increased in the same Pace.

Almost all the Central Government Companies, State Government companies, PSUs (Public Sector Units) Recruit the Graduates throughout the entire year by releasing the official Notifications which clearly authorize the total number of vacancies available, where as in private sector we will not have any exact number of vacancies available.

The Major difference between Government and Private Sector is Recruitment Process. Government Sector Jobs can be grabbed through the Competitive Exams. Where as in the Private Sector Jobs, recruitment Process varies from Company to Company.

2. Flexible Working Hours – Government Jobs vs Private Jobs

Generally, people assume, Private Jobs especially Software/IT Jobs have more options on Flexible working Hours when compared to Government Sector Jobs. In fact, it’s true. But in reality, Fixed working hours have more advantages than Flexible Working Hours.

Fixed Working Hours always allow us to plan things correctly. So by Completing the work on time, you can always leave early and plan your evenings with your family or do some hobby things, etc. In Private Sector, people expect more than what you can accomplish, so obviously, you have to go for long working hours.

3. Salary Packages – Government Jobs vs Private Jobs

Unlike old days, packages of Government posts are competing with the private sector Jobs. Government Jobs have an advantage of perks like DA, HRA, TA, Medical(ESI) etc.. Along with this, you will be eligible for pension also which makes govt Job more attractive than private jobs.

The employees in PSUs are well paid and they get residential accommodation along with medical and other government entitled benefits. on another hand, private Sector jobs also have high packages, but they have a drawback like pension and performance based hikes.

4. Government Jobs Vs. Private Jobs – Job Security & Promotions

If you are working for a private sector, you need to upgrade your skillset continuously to survive and perform better. If you don’t perform well and give the best performance, you may get fired at any time. Where as in government jobs, once you have secured the job, it offers security till the time of retirement unless you do illegal things using govt Job.

All Indian private jobs especially software industry depends on the market of other countries. So private companies downsize their workforce as per their requirement. Where as the Govt Sector Jobs will be there forever.

The Private jobs offer more Hikes/promotions but it would be based on the performance where as in government jobs, you are not promoted unless you clear internal exams.

5. Government Jobs Vs. Private Jobs – Holidays

The government offices have a large number of public and national holidays India. Along with these, you will also get local festival holidays. Where as in Private Sector, there would be only limited no of holidays and may not get holidays on all local festivals.

As the private sector includes MNC’s which are based in foreign countries, they don’t offer all the Indian public holidays. But you will get 20+ Paid leaves per year which you can utilize when required.

6. Government Jobs vs Private Jobs – Work Pressure

Unlike the old days, government Jobs also involved a lot of work these days. So in terms of work pressure, both have the same level of work stress.

In the government sector, the work load is distributed officially. So once you are able to finish your work load, you are Free. Where as in private sector, you will have tremendous pressure and need to share the work with others in order to meet deadlines. The Banking Sector is almost same as Private Sector Jobs. Nowadays bank employees also having tremendous pressure due to Changes/digitalization in the banking sector.

7. Government Jobs Vs Private Jobs – Benefits & Perks

Each Sector has their own benefits and perks.

Government Sector has pensions, concessions at Government entities like Railway Pass, Medical facilities at Public Hospitals. Getting loans is easy for Government Employees.

Where as a Private Sector Jobs have huge no of benefits. In Private sector, you get frequent reimbursements, outings, office snacks and paid holidays. Along with these, you will be a chance to work in Foreign countries like USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Singapore, UAE etc..This makes IT/Software Jobs more attractive than government Jobs.

8. Government Jobs Vs Private Jobs – Growth

The Private Sector provides more opportunities to learn new technologies, concepts and implement ideas. Where as in government sector you will have limited opportunities to learn new things.

9. Nature and Scope – Government Jobs Vs Private Jobs

Unlike Private Sector, Government Jobs like Army, Navy, Air Force involves highest risk factor but it gives immense satisfaction as a citizen of India by showing your patriotism towards Nation. Other Government / Private Jobs involves a fixed process to carry out various operations and jobs.

10. Government Jobs Vs Private Job – Competition

Government Jobs have more competition than the Private Sector Jobs. Most Central Government Jobs are open for candidates to apply from all over the country. So there will be huge competition even if there is single Job Vacancy.

Govt Jobs involves caste based reservation system. All Vacancies in the Government organizations are equally distributed among OBC, SC, ST and General Candidates. So General Candidates have to face more competition for grabbing the government Job.
Where as in private Sector Jobs, it’s quite opposite. You Need to crack a lot of Interview rounds like Written Test (Technical and Logical thinking), Technical Interviews, Technical interview tasks, HR Interviews etc. Even in Private Sector also we have huge competition. But the probability of getting a job here is more and soon.

Due to the COVID-19 lock-down, I went back home in March. COVID-19 outbreak came to light in December, 2019 and started from Wuhan, China; when it was declared to WHO that cluster cases of pneumonia-like disease were spreading due to unknown causes. Later, WHO declared it pandemic seeing the enormous increase in cases all over the world.

In India, the first case of COVID-19 was reported on January 30, 2020 which originated from China. When the pandemic started wreaking havoc, as a preventive measure the Government of India announced a nationwide lock-down for 21 days starting from March 24. Since then we saw four phases of lock-down and for phases of unlock as well.

When corona-virus is prevalent in society and everybody is scared and anxious because of the pandemic, when we all are fighting at our own levels; during lock-down period, there was one fight which was fought by daily wagers, low class workers, and by their mothers, sisters and wives as well as their sons, brothers or husbands who had gone to different states as migrant workers. They were anxious and worried about their family members as they didn’t know how their family members would be surviving far away from their homes when they had no jobs and money with them and no way to return as well.

Today, I am going to share the story of my house help, Rajkumari, whose three sons Kamlesh, Vimlesh and Mithilesh had gone to Gujarat for work. Two of them worked in brick factories whereas the younger one worked as road or tiles labourer. But because of the lock-down there was no work for them, hence they were not getting paid and their ration also got finished in the first week of the lock-down. All the three members stayed at different parts of Gujarat as they all work at different places.

In the first few weeks Rajkumari cried a lot and called us daily. My mother consoled her and we helped her and her sons in whatever way we could. One day she came to our house somehow, sat outside and started crying uncontrollably, we asked her what the reason was? To which she replied that her son was telling her to come home by foot and as she was listening to many accident stories, she was scared. We called her son and told him to wait for some days in the view that maybe the government thinks of helping these people so that they could also reach their safe place which is home. Firstly, he was not listening but at last we were able to persuade him to wait there and not come home by foot.

In some days his wait was over as the government relaxed the lockdown and started Shramik Train Sewa from May 7 and by God’s grace his contractor helped him to get his pass. He reached home in some days and was staying outside his home to complete the quarantine period. Rajkumari’s family members had built a makeshift hut for him. Her second son, Vimlesh also got his pass made and he also reached home after some days after going through quite an ordeal.

Vimlesh stayed with four other friends who were from the same place. Vimlesh’s contractor asked for Rs. 1000 from each of them for getting the pass made. They thought that anyhow they will reach home so they gave the money. The contractor ran away with the money and stopped picking their call. When they got totally frustrated, they texted him that if he wouldn’t get the pass made, they would go to the police. The threat worked and he received the call as soon as he saw that message. He made an excuse of his phone not working and affirmed that he would get their passes made soon and not more than two days passed, he came with the passes and with money as well. So, in a week they also started their journey.

The third son whose factory continued running in the first two months of lock-down as his contract was getting over after that so he didn’t go through any such problems. After two months, his contractor helped his pass getting made without hassle and he came home back without facing any problem.

Here Rajkumari who was happy beyond limits as her sons came back told us that she was worried sick about their sons as she was afraid whether she would be able to see her sons or not. When all of her sons returned back, she promised to herself that she wouldn’t let her sons go back. She said that even if they had less money, they would survive happily but she was not able to survive without knowing how her sons would be. She even went on to extend that even at her age she could happily feed her sons but can and will never put their lives in danger.

The problem of one Rajkumari and her sons were solved but there were many whose situations never saw a daylight as due to lack of ration, food, money and help, many of the workers set out for the journey back home on foot with the blisters on the foot, not adequate food, with their family which comprised of the women, kids and old members. They went for days walking and some even couldn’t reach home because of misshapen like train accidents, road accidents and many people passed away in the middle of the route because of walking for days in April-June heat which is really scorching heat without much water or food which led to dehydration, heat-stroke and other such health problems.

This pandemic many people lost their jobs, hopes, careers, integrity and even their lives. But this lock-down has also made us become more resilient and patient. Many of the people came on the road to help these walkers. People pooled in to help each other. The fight with COVID-19 is continuing and we all will fight it, keep each other safe and try to be happier as we all live once.

Pranab Mukherjee, who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 to 2017 passed away Monday evening at the age of 84. His son, Abhijit Mukherjee has confirmed his dismissal through his tweet. Mukherjee had suffered a fall at his Rajaji Marg house and had been operated to remove a blood clot in his brain on August 10. He was also tested positive for Covid-19. Doctors on Monday morning warned that there was a decline in his condition. Soon after, Abhijit Mukherjee also tweeted a request to people, asking them to pray for his father. “He is a fighter & with all your good wishes & prayers , He will surely recover !” Abhijit tweeted.

Three hours later, Abhijit made the announcement on social media.

“With a Heavy Heart , this is to inform you that my father Shri #PranabMukherjee has just passed away in spite of the best efforts of Doctors of RR Hospital & prayers ,duas & prarthanas from people throughout India !,” he tweeted.

Mukherjee was born on 11 December 1935 in Mirati. His political career spanned five decades, the highest point of which came when he became President of India. He was Minister of Finance between 2009 and 2012, Minister of Defence (2004-2006), Minister of External Affairs (2006-2009).

Pranab Mukherjee was also awarded India’s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna in 2019 by the current President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.

Politicians like Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Amit Shah and many others are giving their condolences to his family through their tweets.

The Supreme Court of India gave the final judgment of the criminal contempt case against the prominent lawyer, Mr. Prashant Bhushan on Monday. A fine ₹1 was imposed on him and if the lawyer fails to do so, he will be jailed for 3 months besides a debarment from practice for a period of 3 years.

It was the two tweets of Mr. Bhushan which were said to be derogatory and “scandalising” the court. Scandalising the court broadly refers to statements or publications which have the effect of undermining public confidence in the judiciary. The Contempt of Court Act, 1971, outlines the procedure in relation to investigation and punishment for contempt. The objective behind this is to prevent the degradation of the court’s image in the eyes of the people, thereby securing the public confidence in the courts.

The case against Mr. Bhushan was filed because of his tweets where he accused CJI Bobde of hypocrisy, posting the judge’s image on a luxurious Harley-Davidson bike. He wrote that the CJI is riding a bike without helmet and mask, keeping the doors of the court closed for the public. In another of his tweets, Mr. Bhushan had targetted the SC especially the last four CJIs and held them responsible for the “destruction of democracy” in India.

The case was historical as it focused on the limitations to the Fundamental Right of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) of the constitution. The contempt of case is a “reasonable restriction” to free speech. There has always been a clash between free speech on one hand and the public/national interests on the other. The SC judgement of imposing a fine of ₹1 can be said to be an attempt to strike a balance between the two. The lawyer was punished in a way that he is declared guilty while also not being too harsh on him in the sentence. The case against Mr.Bhushan was seen as a test of free expression in the world’s largest democracy.

India and Russia, the two finalists of FIDE online Chess Olympiad have been announced as the joint winners of the tournament, following a server failure that caused many players to lose connections.

At first, Russia was initially declared the winner, when two Indian players, Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh, lost their games at in the finals on a time basis while their time was lost due to loss of internet connection.

India had lodged the official appeal after the controversial result and said that players’ internet connection had gone down due to server failure. The two countries were declared joint winners after India’s appeal. The International Chess Federation Fide issued a statement saying that it’s chairman Arkadi Dborkovich decided to award gold medals to both teams. This was the first time that FIDE conducted the Olympiad in an online format.

The first round was a 3-3 draw between the two teams in the final. The second round was also on par with Nihal and Divya being declared defeated on time. India was represented in the tournament by Vidit Gujarati, former world champions Viswanathan Anand, Koneru Hampi, D Harika, R Pragananda, P. Harikrishna, and Divya Deshmukh.

India rested Anand in the first round and were drawing six bets in the first round. In the second round, Anand, Vidit and Harika played with the likes of lan Nepomaniacchi , Danil Dubov and Aleksandra Kosteniuk respectively, while Divya was leading her side to victory against Polina Shuvalova. Hampi and Aleksandra were on a par with Goryachkina and Nihal and Andrei Espenko.

A sudden server failure caused both Nihal and Divya to lose their internet connection with their games and lost them on time. In the final the score went 4.5-1.5 in favor of Russia. But India appealed to the appeals committee, favouring this technical aspect and FIDE changed the decision and declared the two countries joint winners.

“We all have our demons, that doesn’t mean you’ll stop fighting
to it”
Mental illness is a really serious issue at the same time being the
most unpredictable as well as unnoticeable. we can never predict
just by looking at the person what he/she is going through.
Mental illness are basically chronic distruption in neural circuits of
the brain. The distrupted neural circuit affect the functioning of
brain in the ways of how a person thinks, feels, acts, behave etc.
The distrupted neural circuit eventually dramatically effect the
person’s mood and make them hallucinate or believe the things
that actually doesn’t exists or make sense.
It can be caused either by biological factors or environmental
factors such as genetic, drug,alcohol,stress or lack of sleep.
The society we’re living in, most of the people tend to avoid the
problem of mental illness, or hesitate to share these kinds of
issues, but remember if you’re not speaking it you’re storing it and
that’s get heavy.
It’s extremely hard for the society to understand you unless you
speak to them.
There is no cure for this but the recovery is definitely possible.
Just by doing self care & little things you can keep your brain
healthy ,calm & avoid the mental illness
1-stay socially active, the more you communicate the more you
get comfortable with people around you.

2.practice mindfulness on daily basis

3.spend more time with loved ones

4.have balanced diet

5.have proper 8hr sleep

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According to several search engines “Freedom is the power and ability to think, act and speak without hindrance or restraint. Freedoms are often enshrined in the charters and constitutions of nations as foundations of law. It is also common for laws to restrict freedoms in various ways.” But the meaning of freedom for every individual is different. According to a few people, freedom means the right attitude which can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity, or a stumbling block into a stepping stone. In other words, breaking barriers is freedom. The barrier to success is not something that exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. Setting our wings open to fly high and high until you touch the clouds and achieve your dreams is freedom. Freedom is something that lets you fight all the challenges to accomplish your goal. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
You’re a free man in a beautiful world
Living the dream they say
You got to wake up and shake off
All the laziness that’s in your way
Hey dreamer why are you dreaming
What are you doing still sleeping

You’re a nightmare, to handle,
And this life you’re living is a scandal
Freedom in a jail, cozy in a hole,
All that dripping wax in a candle bowl
What a waste of life that’s too much to bear
Take me seriously and start to care

Freedom is a choice, choose it with your wisdom
There isn’t any comfort zone, in any living organ
Try and take a chance, you never know the outcome
It will be hard,
But you’re going to earn freedom.
You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It’s not like you have forever, so don’t waste any of your seconds, don’t throw even one of your moments away and this is freedom. You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It’s a place for disappearing, you’d said, a place for getting lost… and for getting found.
I’ll take you there, you’d said. And I could say that I agree and this is freedom. Freedom lies within us. Endings are powerful. Get the ending wrong, and your growth could be stunted by lingering baggage that saps your energy and attention. A properly executed ending however, provides closure and cleanliness, readying you to attack the new with refreshed vigour. Build your life on your dreams; because dreams never have bad endings. As one grows older, one views many things with a more relaxed perspective. However, there are also certain things that all of a sudden start to become more difficult: climbing the stairs, pulling on roller shutter belts and using a manual handle to extend the awning – all these things require a considerable expenditure of energy. However, one thing is a non-negotiable for you: you continue to value your independence. Above all, within your own four walls.
“BE FREE to achieve your goals and this is real freedom, this is the really independence.

By. Kumari lili