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India
will create 58 mn more jobs by 2012: Labour Minister
Tuesday December 07, 2010 01:34:48 PM,
Prashant Sood, IANS
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New Delhi:
Labour Minister Harish Rawat says the government is confident of
creating 58 million additional jobs by the end of the 11th Five
Year Plan in 2012 thanks to the smart recovery in the farm sector
and its resultant impact on the rural economy.
"Agriculture has responded very positively. With economy poised to
grow at nine percent in this fiscal year, we will be able to meet
the target," Rawat told IANS in an interview, adding his
assessment was that the country now was mid-way in realising the
target.
"I can't say there will be zero unemployment, but it will stay in
control," he said. "The
real position will be known after data on employment and
unemployment is released by the National Sample Survey
Organisation."
Even though agriculture was not among the sectors identified by
the central government for incremental employment during the 11th
Plan, Rawat said buoyancy in the sector will be beneficial as it
employs two-thirds of the labour force, directly or indirectly.
India's farm sector grew 2.5 percent in the first quarter and 4.4
percent in the second quarter of this fiscal, as opposed to a mere
1.9 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively, during two
corresponding quarters last fiscal.
The gross domestic product (GDP) climbed 8.9 percent each in the
first two quarters.
Rawat said the 10th Five Year Plan target of creating 50 million
additional jobs fell short by three million due to a shortfall in
fresh employment in sectors like manufacturing, transport, tourism
and agriculture.
As per the report on the employment and unemployment survey
released by the labour ministry in October, the unemployment rate
in India was 9.4 percent last fiscal. In the rural areas the
unemployment rate was 10.1 percent and in the urban areas 7.3
percent.
The labour minister said his ministry had also put together a
working draft of a new employment policy, which aims at creating
skilled manpower according to industry needs, which has also been
the main demand of the private sector.
"The focus of the policy will be on employment generation and
productivity with flexible framework of training," Rawat told IANS,
adding the document was being considered by the top authorities in
the government.
He said the government has charted out plans to modernise
employment exchanges under the public-private partnership model so
that accurate data on vacancies, along with the required skill
set, is easily available online.
He said 37 million people were currently registered with
employment exchanges.
"The exchanges should not only serve as points of registration for
people seeking jobs but also provide counselling. The government
is planning steps to make them a platform for employers to post
their vacancies and get information on available skillsets.
(Prashant Sood
can be reached at prashant.s@ians)
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