Lok Sabha Question No. 285 (STARRED), answered on 2019-12-09
Subject: Employment Exchanges
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Reddeppa Nallakonda Gari, Dayakar Pasunoori

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. *285

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09 TH  DECEMBER, 2019

## EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES

*285.  SHRI N. REDDEPPA: SHRI PASUNOORI DAYAKAR:

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  registered  unemployed  men/women  in  various Employment Exchanges of the country, category-wise;
- (b) the  details  of  the  employment  provided  during  each  of  the  last three years from such employment exchanges, State/UT-wise; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  giving  priority  to  women  in  the process  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  if  not,  the  reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c): A statement is laid on the table of the House. **

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *285 DUE FOR REPLY ON 09-12-2019 BY SHRI N. REDDEPPA  AND  SHRI  PASUNOORI  DAYAKAR    REGARDING  'EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES''

- (a) & (b):   As per the extant information received from the States/UTs, the number  of  job-seekers,  all  of  whom  may  not  necessarily  be  unemployed, registered  on  live  register  of  employment  exchanges  in  the  country  were 272.29  lakh  male  and  156.31  lakh  female  till  Aug,  2017.    The  Scheduled Caste  job  seekers  were  71.5  lakh,  Scheduled  Tribe  job  seekers  were  25.5 lakh  and  Other  Backward  Class  job  seekers  were  116.2  Lakh  during  2016. The  State/UT-wise  number  of  job  seekers  placed  through  employment exchanges in the country is given at Annexure-I.
- (c):        Employment  exchanges  are  being  managed  by  the  respective  State Governments in the country, there are 5 employment exchanges which are exclusively for women.

The  Government  is  giving  priority  to  women  by  implementing  various schemes/programmes to the extent available as follows:

Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act,  2005 stipulated that while providing employment, priority shall be given to women in such a way that at least one-third of the beneficiaries shall be women who have registered and requested for work under the Scheme. Further, under Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana, it is mandatory that one third of the persons covered should be women.

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) has been initiated by Government inter alia for facilitating self-employment. Under PMMY collateral free loans upto  Rs.  10  lakh,  are  extended  to  micro/small  business  enterprises  and  to individuals  to  enable  them  to  setup  or  expand  their  business  activities. Under  PMMY,  a  special  rebate  of  0.25%  is  extended  to  women  borrowers. Around 70% loans (12.74 crore out of total 18.26 crore sanctioned loan as on 31st    March,  2019)  given  under  the  MUDRA  scheme,  have  been  given  to women entrepreneurs.

Government is providing training to women workers through a network of Women  Industrial Training Institutes, National Vocational Training Institutes and Regional Vocational Training Institutes. Under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, special focus and provisions  have  been  made  for  encouraging  more  women  participation.  In order to enable the newly skilled women  to settle into their new jobs/vocations, post placement support is being provided at the rate of Rs. 1500/-  per  month  for  two  months  for  within  domicile  and  three  months  for outside the domicile placement.

Moreover,  in  order  to  encourage  employment  of  women,  a  number  of protective  provisions  have  been  incorporated  in  various  labour  laws  for creating  congenial  work  environment  for  women  workers.  These  includes child  care  centers,  time-off  for  feeding  children,  enhancement  in  paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, provisions for mandatory crèche facility  in  the  establishments  having  50  or  more  employees,  permitting women workers in the night shifts with adequate safety measures, etc. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 provides for payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers for same work or work of similar nature without any discrimination. Further, under the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the wages fixed by the appropriate Government are equally applicable to both male and female workers without any gender discrimination.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. *285 due for reply on 09-12-2019

State/UT-wise details of Job seekers' placed through employment exchanges to the extent available in the country

|        |                   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   | Placement through Employment Exchanges (in Thousand)   |
|--------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| Sl. N. | State/UT          | 2015                                                   | 2015                                                   | 2015                                                   | 2016                                                   | 2016                                                   | 2016                                                   | 2017*                                                  | 2017*                                                  | 2017*                                                  |
| Sl. N. | State/UT          | Male                                                   | Female                                                 | Person                                                 | Male                                                   | Female                                                 | Person                                                 | Male                                                   | Female                                                 | Person                                                 |
| 1      | Andhra Pradesh    | 0.15                                                   | 0.05                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.50                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.06                                                   | 0.16                                                   |
| 2      | Arunachal Pradesh | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 3      | Assam             | 0.58                                                   | 0.27                                                   | 0.85                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.60                                                   | 0.44                                                   | 0.11                                                   | 0.55                                                   |
| 4      | Bihar             | 1.03                                                   | 0.07                                                   | 1.10                                                   | 1.50                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 1.90                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 5      | Chhattisgarh      | 2.04                                                   | 1.14                                                   | 3.18                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.23                                                   | 0.02                                                   | 0.25                                                   |
| 6      | Delhi             | 0.19                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.19                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 7      | Goa               | 2.49                                                   | 0.42                                                   | 2.91                                                   | 0.50                                                   | 0.60                                                   | 1.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 8      | Gujarat           | 287.27                                                 | 49.40                                                  | 336.67                                                 | 285.70                                                 | 44.40                                                  | 330.10                                                 | 213.56                                                 | 60.87                                                  | 274.43                                                 |
| 9      | Haryana           | 0.27                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.28                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.05                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.05                                                   |
| 10     | Himachal Pradesh  | 0.95                                                   | 0.16                                                   | 1.11                                                   | 1.40                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 1.50                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.05                                                   | 0.25                                                   |
| 11     | Jammu & Kashmir   | 0.05                                                   | 0.03                                                   | 0.08                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.69                                                   | 0.28                                                   | 0.97                                                   |
| 12     | Jharkhand         | 2.91                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 2.95                                                   | 2.40                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 2.50                                                   | 2.51                                                   | 0.26                                                   | 2.78                                                   |
| 13     | Karnataka         | 0.53                                                   | 0.26                                                   | 0.79                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.30                                                   | 0.70                                                   | 0.15                                                   | 0.12                                                   | 0.27                                                   |
| 14     | Kerala            | 4.20                                                   | 4.02                                                   | 8.22                                                   | 4.70                                                   | 6.60                                                   | 11.30                                                  | 3.22                                                   | 2.93                                                   | 6.15                                                   |
| 15     | Madhya Pradesh    | 0.10                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.11                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 16     | Maharashtra       | 22.27                                                  | 0.61                                                   | 22.88                                                  | 35.90                                                  | 1.70                                                   | 37.60                                                  | 1.20                                                   | 0.08                                                   | 1.28                                                   |
| 17     | Manipur           | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 18     | Meghalaya         | 0.07                                                   | 0.08                                                   | 0.15                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.01                                                   |
| 19     | Mizoram           | 0.00                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 20     | Nagaland          | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 21     | Odisha            | 0.92                                                   | 0.33                                                   | 1.25                                                   | 2.50                                                   | 1.30                                                   | 3.80                                                   | 2.41                                                   | 1.35                                                   | 3.76                                                   |
| 22     | Punjab            | 1.49                                                   | 0.22                                                   | 1.71                                                   | 2.40                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 2.60                                                   | 1.36                                                   | 0.23                                                   | 1.58                                                   |
| 23     | Rajasthan         | 0.34                                                   | 0.05                                                   | 0.39                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.10                                                   |
| 24     | Sikkim#           | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      | -                                                      |
| 25     | Tamil Nadu        | 5.54                                                   | 2.19                                                   | 7.73                                                   | 3.60                                                   | 2.60                                                   | 6.20                                                   | 0.58                                                   | 0.66                                                   | 1.24                                                   |
| 26     | Telangana         | 0.46                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 0.50                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.50                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 0.03                                                   | 0.06                                                   |
| 27     | Tripura           | 0.23                                                   | 0.15                                                   | 0.38                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.01                                                   |
| 28     | Uttarakhand       | 0.18                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 0.22                                                   | 0.30                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.30                                                   | 0.03                                                   | 0.02                                                   | 0.05                                                   |
| 29     | Uttar Pradesh     | 0.41                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.41                                                   | 1.30                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 1.50                                                   | 0.06                                                   | 0.02                                                   | 0.08                                                   |
| 30     | West Bengal       | 0.25                                                   | 0.22                                                   | 0.47                                                   | 0.80                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 1.20                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 31     | A & N Islands     | 0.08                                                   | 0.03                                                   | 0.11                                                   | 0.30                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.40                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 32     | Chandigarh        | 0.06                                                   | 0.02                                                   | 0.08                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.20                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 0.04                                                   | 0.08                                                   |
| 33     | D & N Haveli      | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 34     | Daman And Diu     | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 35     | Lakshadweep       | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
| 36     | Puducherry        | 0.06                                                   | 0.03                                                   | 0.09                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.10                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   | 0.00                                                   |
|        | Total@            | 335.09                                                 | 59.90                                                  | 394.99                                                 | 345.80                                                 | 59.70                                                  | 405.50                                                 | 226.98                                                 | 67.14                                                  | 294.12                                                 |

Source: Employment Exchange Statistics, Directorate General of Employment

Note: #No Employment Exchange is functioning in this State;

@Total may not tally due to rounding off.

*Provisional  (till  Aug.2017)