Lok Sabha Question No. 175 (STARRED), answered on 2018-07-30
Subject: Unemployment
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: M. I. SHANAVAS, JITENDRA CHAUDHURY

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. *175 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30 TH  JULY, 2018

## UNEMPLOYMENT

*175.  SHRI M.I. SHANAVAS: SHRI JITENDRA CHAUDHURY:

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

- (a) whether the unemployment situation in the country is getting critical day by day and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the schemes/programmes being implemented by the Government for eradication  of  unemployment/creation  of  new  jobs  in  the  country  and  the achievements  thereof  during  the  last  four  years  including  the  number  of youth who got employed during the said period;
- (c) the number of jobs created/released by the Government and private sector during the last three years, State-wise;
- (d) the details of the employment strength in various Public Sector undertakings during the last four years; and
- (e) whether the Government would take steps to provide at least Rs. 2,000/- per month  as  unemployment  wages/allowance  to  the  unemployed  youth  in  the country and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (e):  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  *175  DUE  FOR  REPLY  ON  30-07-2018  BY  SHRI  M.  I. SHANAVAS AND SHRI JITENDRA CHAUDHURY REGARDINGH UNEMPLOYMENT

- (a): As  per  the  results  of  available  labour  force  surveys  on  EmploymentUnemployment conducted by Labour Bureau,  Ministry of Labour and Employment, the estimated unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above on usual status basis in the country in 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2015-16 were 3.3 %, 4.0%, 3.4% and 3.7% respectively.
- (b) & (c): Employment  generation  and  improving  employability  has  been  the priority of the Government. The Government is implementing various programmes in this direction like encouraging private sector of economy, fast tracking various projects  involving  substantial  investment  and  increasing  public  expenditure  on schemes  like  Prime  Minister's  Employment  Generation  Programme  (PMEGP), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pt. Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY)  and  Deendyal Antodaya  Yojana-National  Urban  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM).  Employment generated under these schemes is given below:

| Schemes/Year                                         |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 | 2018-19                |
|------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------------------|
| Estimated employment generated under PMEGP (in lakh) |      3.23 |      4.08 |      3.87 | 1.11 (till 30-6-2018)  |
| Persondays Generated under MGNREGS (in crore)        |    235.14 |    235.64 |    234.26 | 84.73 (till 23-7-2018) |
| Candidates placed under DDU-GKY (in lakh)            |      1.09 |      1.48 |      0.76 | 0.24 (till 23-7-2018)  |
| Placement under DAY-NULM (in lakh)                   |      0.34 |      1.52 |      1.15 | 0.23 (till 9-7-2018)   |

Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana has been launched by the Ministry of  Labour  and  Employment  in  the  year  2016-17  for  incentivising  industry  for promoting  employment  generation.  Under  this  scheme,  Government  is  paying entire employer's contribution (12% or as admissible) towards EPF and EPS for all eligible new employees for all sectors for 3 years.Till 23 rd  July, 2018, the scheme covered 75753 establishments and 60.81 lakh beneficiaries.

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a scheme to extend collateral free loansby  Banks,  Non-Banking  Financial  Companies  (NBFCs)  and  Micro  Finance Institutions  (MFIs)  to  small/micro  business  enterprises  in  the  non-agricultural sector to individuals to enable them to setup or expand their business activities. Under  PMMY,  the  number  of  loans  sanctioned  during  2015-16  to  2017-18  were 12.27 crore, out of which 3.49 crore were new entrepreneurs.

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 in major ministries/departments is given below:

| Year (as on 1 st March)   |   2013-14 |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |
|---------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Employees (in lakh)       |      32.9 |     32.94 |     32.86 |

Further, recruitment under central government is primarily made by various recruitment  agencies  namely  Union  Public  Service  Commission  (UPSC),  Staff Selection  Commission  (SSC),  Railway  Recruitment  Board  (RRB)  etc.  Besides these,  many  Ministries/Departments  have  their  own  recruitment  mechanism  for certain posts in their domain. There is no centralized agency to collect data from all recruitment agencies. The year-wise number of persons recruited through the main recruitment agencies of the Central Government as available in Ministry of Labour and Employment is given below:

| Year    |   No. of candidates recommended by UPSC |   No. of candidates recommended by SSC |   No. of candidates empanelled/ recruited by RRB/RRCs |   Total |
|---------|-----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 2014-15 |                                    8272 |                                  58066 |                                                 47186 |  113524 |
| 2015-16 |                                    6866 |                                  25138 |                                                 79803 |  111807 |
| 2016-17 |                                    5735 |                                  68880 |                                                 26318 |  100933 |

The  above  figures  do  not  include  recruitments  made  by  the  various  Ministries through their own  mechanism,  State  Governments,  Banks,  Other  Financial Institutions, Universities, Central Public Sector Enterprises, Statutory/Autonomous Bodies and directly by the Ministries/Departments without going through UPSC/SSC.

State-wise details of jobs created are not centrally maintained.

(d): As  per  the  latest  available  Public  Enterprises  survey  report  of  Ministry  of Heavy  Industries  and  Public  Enterprises,  Department  of  Public  Enterprises, employment strength in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) is given below:

| Year                                            |   2013-14 |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |
|-------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Employees (in lakh) [Excluding contract worker] |     13.49 |     12.91 |     11.85 |     11.31 |

(e): Government  of  India  is  not  providing  unemployment  allowance  to  the unemployed persons.

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