Lok Sabha Question No. 331 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-05
Subject: Employed Persons
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: RAJESHBHAI NARANBHAI CHUDASAMA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.331

TO BE ANSWERED ON 5 TH  FEBRUARY, 2018

## EMPLOYED PERSONS

## 331.  SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the total number of employed persons in the country during the last three years, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the  number  of  persons  employed  in  Government  service,  public  sector institutions and private sector and along with the number of regular and temporary employees therefrom separately; and
- (c) whether minimum wages are prescribed and applicable to all of them and if not, the percentage of persons getting minimum wages and those who are not getting minimum wages?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

- (a):  As  per  the  results  of  last  three  available  surveys  on  EmploymentUnemployment conducted by Labour Bureau, the estimated Worker Population Ratio(WPR)  for  persons  aged  15  years  and  above  on  usual  principal  & subsidiary status basis in the country was 51.0% in 2012-13, 53.7% in 2013-14 and 50.5% during 2015-16.  State/UT-wise detail is given at Annex-I.
- (b):  As  per  the  report  of  Pay  Research  Unit  (PRU)  of  the  Department  of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, the estimated number of central government civilian regular employees during 2014, 2015 and 2016 in major ministries/departments(excluding Union Territories) are given below:

| Year (as on 1st March)   |   2014 |   2015 |   2016 |
|--------------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| Employees (in lakh)      |  32.24 |  32.29 |  32.21 |

According to the Public Enterprises Surveys 2015-16 of Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, the number of employees in Central Public Sector  Enterprises  in  2013-14,  2014-15  and  2015-16  were  13.49  lakh,  12.91 lakh  and  12.32  lakh  respectively.  As  per  the    Employment-Unemployment survey 2015-16 conducted by  Labour Bureau  for persons aged 15 years and above  on  usual  principal  &  subsidiary  status  basis  in  the  country,  the estimated  Wage/Salaried  earner  and  Casual  labour  were  16.2%  and  33.1% respectively.

(c):  Under  the  provisions  of  the  Minimum  Wages  Act,1948,  both Central  and State Governments are appropriate Governments to fix, review and revise the minimum wages of the workers employed in the scheduled employment.

As  per  the  provisions  of  the  Minimum  Wages  Act  1948,  any  violation including non-payment of minimum wages is a punishable offence.

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Annex referred to in reply to part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 331 due for 05-02-2018.

## Worker Population Ratio for persons aged 15 years & above according to Usual Principal & Subsidiary Status Approach

(in %)

| Sl. No.   | State/UTs            |   2012-13 |   2013-14 |   2015-16 |
|-----------|----------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh       |      60.6 |      64.8 |      61.6 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh    |      58.4 |      63.4 |      62.1 |
| 3         | Assam                |      54.5 |      59.3 |      50.6 |
| 4         | Bihar                |      44.1 |      48   |      48.4 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh         |      61.9 |      65.6 |      67.3 |
| 6         | Delhi                |      41.8 |      40.2 |      40.8 |
| 7         | Goa                  |      43.7 |      47.9 |      44.7 |
| 8         | Gujarat              |      48.1 |      52.9 |      49   |
| 9         | Haryana              |      44.3 |      45.5 |      44.7 |
| 10        | Himachal Pradesh     |      67   |      68.4 |      40.8 |
| 11        | Jammu & Kashmir      |      42.5 |      43.3 |      36.7 |
| 12        | Jharkhand            |      53.9 |      64.8 |      65.2 |
| 13        | Karnataka            |      55.1 |      56.8 |      55.5 |
| 14        | Kerala               |      40.6 |      48   |      45.2 |
| 15        | Madhya Pradesh       |      57.5 |      59.2 |      44.8 |
| 16        | Maharashtra          |      53.4 |      55.2 |      52.2 |
| 17        | Manipur              |      54.7 |      61.2 |      59.9 |
| 18        | Meghalaya            |      58.9 |      68.7 |      62.8 |
| 19        | Mizoram              |      63.7 |      71.2 |      67.4 |
| 20        | Nagaland             |      48.1 |      49.8 |      63.5 |
| 21        | Odisha               |      52.3 |      54   |      51.2 |
| 22        | Punjab               |      43.3 |      41.1 |      40.2 |
| 23        | Rajasthan            |      51.2 |      54.5 |      53.7 |
| 24        | Sikkim               |      57.8 |      64.8 |      61.4 |
| 25        | Tamil Nadu           |      55.4 |      58.3 |      56.3 |
| 26        | Telangana            |       0   |      65.1 |      56.6 |
| 27        | Tripura              |      53.6 |      54.9 |      61.9 |
| 28        | Uttarakhand          |      44.7 |      46.9 |      44.6 |
| 29        | Uttar Pradesh        |      45.5 |      48.1 |      43.7 |
| 30        | West Bengal          |      50.3 |      48.7 |      50.7 |
| 31        | A & N Islands        |      37.6 |      53.7 |      54.1 |
| 32        | Chandigarh           |      39   |      39.7 |      37.1 |
| 33        | Dadra & Nagar Haveli |      48.2 |      42.1 |      45.4 |
| 34        | Daman & Diu          |      53.3 |      43.2 |      50.1 |
| 35        | Lakshadweep          |      40   |      42.8 |      34.6 |
| 36        | Puducherry           |      46.4 |      44.2 |      50.9 |
|           | All India            |      51   |      53.7 |      50.5 |

Source: Employment &Unemployment Surveys of Labour Bureau