Unemployment in India is
a serious social issue
Unemployment records in India are kept by the
Ministry of Labour and Employment of India. In India, unemployed persons are
individuals who are without a job and actively seeking to work.
India Skills Report captured the skill levels of
talent pool but also brought out the hiring estimates across major Industry
sectors in the country. As per the report’s findings, out of about 10
sectors surveyed, majority of the sectors (like BFSI, BPO/ITES, Manufacturing
etc.), are not expecting a major change in their hiring numbers. Engineering
& Core, Hospitality and travel, came out as the only sectors where there
will be a significant increase in the hiring numbers. The report also brings
out a general trend amongst the employers to look for skills rather than qualifications
in candidates. Apart from this, the report has in-depth analysis of the skill
pool based on the gender, age-group, and domain along with the states where the
most employable pool can be found. It also shows the domain wise hiring trends
for the coming year.
Based on the gender, it was found that the
quality of female candidates is better than the males. This and many more such
insights are part of the first India Skills Report, which is an effort to
capture the skill levels of the supply side and needs of the demand side of
Talent and perform matchmaking between the two ends. Reaching out to over
1,00,000 students spread across the length and breadth of country parallel to
almost 100 employers spread across 10 Industry sectors, the India Skills Report
has helped to create an agenda that can function to solve the talent
supply-demand challenge the country is facing. The Report was released by Mr
Shikhar Agrawal, Director General of Employment & Training Ministry of
Labour and Employment (India)
According to NSS (66th round) Report from
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
published on 2013[5] Kerala has the highest unemployment rates, while Gujarat
has the least unemployment rate among major States of India. National average
for unemployment rate stands at 50.
The Government of India has taken several steps
to decrease the unemployment rates like launching the Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme which guarantees a 100-day employment to an
unemployed person in a year. It has implemented it in 200 of the districts and
further will be expanded to 600 districts. In exchange for working under this
scheme the person is paid 150 per day.
Apart from Employment Exchange, the Government of
India publishes a weekly newspaper titled Employment News. It comes out every
Saturday evening and gives detailed information about vacancies for government
jobs across India. Along with the list of vacancies, it also has the
notifications for various government exams and recruitment procedures for
government jobs.
Agriculture is the most labour absorbing sector
of the economy. In recent years, there has been a decline in the dependence of
population on agriculture partly because of disguised unemployment. Some of the
surplus labour in agriculture has moved to either secondary or the tertiary
sector. In the secondary sector, small scale manufacturing is the most labour
absorbing. In case of the tertiary sector, various new services are now
appearing like biotechnology, information technology and so on. The government
has taken steps in these sectors for the disguised unemployed people in these
methods.
The Government of India has initiated National
Career Service Scheme whereby a web portal named National Career Service Portal
(www.ncs.gov.in) has been launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment
(India). Through this portal, job-seekers and employers can avail the facility
of a common platform for seeking and updating job information. Not only private
vacancies, contractual jobs available in the government sector are also
available on the portal.
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