War against
unemployment
One way to
address unemployment in India is to increase the frequency of the National
Sample Survey. The Survey should be done more often. While the political and
intellectual discourse in India is dominated about whether enough jobs are
being created, about the quality of these jobs and how government policies are
or are not helping employment, the truth is much of this is done wearing
sunglasses in a dark room at night.
India is not
suffering from jobless growth. India is not generating enough jobs to absorb
the millions of youth entering the workforce every year. Many rural Indians
flee their farms for the cities.
Unemployment
in India is a serious social issue. Unemployment records in India are kept by
the Ministry of Labour and Employment of India.
According to
India Skills Report launched in the 3rd CII National Conference on Skill
Development 3.4% were found employable Out of about 1, 00,000 candidates. The
Report not only captured the skill levels of talent pool but also brought out
the hiring estimates across major Industry sectors in the country. 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. The India Skills Report has helped to create an agenda that can function
to solve the talent supply-demand challenge the country is facing.
To solve
unemployment problem, Indian government has come up with 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.
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.
Thus the war
against unemployment continues.
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