Lok Sabha Question No. 4004 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-28
Subject: Survey on Employment /Unemployment
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Ramesh Chander Kaushik, Hanuman Beniwal, Deepak Baij, Sarmistha Sethi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4004 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.03.2022

Survey on Employment /Unemployment

†4004. SHRI RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK:

SHRI HANUMAN BENIWAL:

SHRI DEEPAK BAIJ:

SHRIMATI SARMISTHA SETHI:

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

- (a)whether the Government has conducted any survey regarding employment and unemployment and if so, the details thereof along with the results of the  survey  and  the  status  of  employment  in  the  country  during  the  last three years and the current year;
- (b)whether the remedial steps have been taken by the Government to solve the problem of unemployment and if so, the details thereof including the details of the increase in unemployment rate during the last five years;
- (c)whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  study  to  ascertain  the increase in unemployment due to COVID-19 and the reasons due to which unemployment has increased in the country;
- (d) whether the Government makes any assessment regarding the status of unemployment in the country; and
- (e)whether  the  Government  has  any  data  regarding  the  present  status  of unemployment in the country; if so, the details thereof including Rajasthan?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

(a) to (e): National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics  and Programme Implementation, has been conducting Periodic Labour

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Force Survey (PLFS) since 2017. This is a continuous survey being conducted by the NSO and is designed to measure the employment and unemployment situation annually for both rural & urban areas and quarterly for urban areas (LFPR),Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Unemployment Rate (UR) (in percent)  in  usual status  (ps+ss)  in  PLFS  (2017-18),  PLFS  (2018-19)  and  PLFS  (2019-20)  for persons of 15 years and above including the State of Rajasthan are given at only. The State-wise Labour Force Participation Rate Annexure-I.

Labour Bureau has been entrusted with the task of conducting the Quarterly  Employment Survey (QES) as a component of All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES). QES conducted during the first  quarter  (April-May-  June,  2021)  was  also  designed  to  collect  the information                      on the Covid-19 pandemic impact on the operational status  and  employment  status  of  the  establishments  in  the  selected  9 sectors. The impact on male & female employees during lockdown period is given at Annexure-II.

Employment  generation  coupled  with  improving  employability  is the  priority  of  the  Government.  Government  has  taken  various  steps  for generating  employment  in  the  country  like  encouraging  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 Deendayal Antodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) run  by  Ministry  of  Micro,  Small  &  Medium  Enterprises,  Ministry  of  Rural Development and Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, respectively.

Government is providing fiscal stimulus of more than Rs. Twenty seven  lakh  crore  as  part  of  the  Aatmanirbhar  Bharat  financial  Package comprising of various long term schemes/ programmes/ policies for making the country self-reliant and to create employment opportunities.

Aatmanirbhar  Bharat  Rojgar  Yojana  (ABRY)  was  launched  with effect from 1 st  October, 2020 as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat package 3.0 to incentivize  employers for creation  of  new  employment along       with  social security  benefits  and  restoration  of  loss  of  employment  during  Covid-19

pandemic. This scheme being

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implemented through Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), seeks to reduce the financial burden of the employers and encourages them to hire more workers. The terminal date for registration of beneficiaries has been extended from 30.06.2021 to 31.03.2022.

Prime Minister Street Vendor's Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme was launched on June 01, 2020 to provide working capital loan to Street Vendors, vending in urban areas, to resume their businesses.

Under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), Government of  India  has  contributed  both  12%  employer's  share  and  12%  employee's share under Employees Provident Fund (EPF), totalling 24% of the wage for the wage month from March to August, 2020 for the establishments having up  to  100  employees  with  90%  of  such  employees  earning  less  than  Rs. 15000/-.

Government  had  launched  the  Garib  Kalyan  Rojgar  Abhiyaan (GKRA) of 125 days on 20th June, 2020 to boost employment and livelihood opportunities  for  returnee  migrant  workers  and  similarly  affected  persons including  youth  in  rural  areas,  in  116  selected  districts  across  6  States  of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The  unemployment  benefit  under  the  Atal  Beemit  Vyakti  Kalyan Yojana  being  implemented  by  the  Employees'  State  Insurance  Corporation (ESIC)  has  been  enhanced to 50% from 25% of the average wage, payable upto  90  days,  along  with  relaxation  of  eligibility  conditions  to  claim  the benefit.

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is being implemented by the  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.

Besides these initiatives, the flagship programmes of the Government  such  as  Make  in  India,  Digital  India,  Smart  City  Mission,  Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, Housing for All, Infrastructure  development  and  Industrial  Corridors  and  Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme are also oriented to generate productive employment opportunities.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4004 for 28.03.2022 raised by Shri  Ramesh Chander Kaushik  and others.

State-wise  Labour  Force  Participation  Rate  (LFPR),  Worker  Population  Ratio  (WPR)  and Unemployment Rate (UR) (in percent)  in  usual status (ps+ss) in  PLFS (2017-18), PLFS (201819) and PLFS (2019-20) for persons of 15 years and above

| State/UTs            | LFPR (in %)   | LFPR (in %)   | LFPR (in %)   | WPR (in %)   | WPR (in %)   | WPR (in %)   | UR (in%)   | UR (in%)   | UR (in%)   |
|----------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------|------------|------------|
| State/UTs            | 2017-18       | 2018-19       | 2019-20       | 2017-18      | 2018-19      | 2019-20      | 2017-18    | 2018-19    | 2019-20    |
| Andhra Pradesh       | 59.9          | 57.8          | 58.2          | 57.2         | 54.8         | 55.5         | 4.5        | 5.3        | 4.7        |
| Arunachal Pradesh    | 45.0          | 44.3          | 47.5          | 42.3         | 40.9         | 44.3         | 5.8        | 7.7        | 6.7        |
| Assam                | 47.5          | 46.5          | 46.9          | 43.7         | 43.4         | 43.2         | 7.9        | 6.7        | 7.9        |
| Bihar                | 38.2          | 40.4          | 41.8          | 35.5         | 36.4         | 39.7         | 7.0        | 9.8        | 5.1        |
| Chhattisgarh         | 64.5          | 62.7          | 67.6          | 62.4         | 61.2         | 65.4         | 3.3        | 2.4        | 3.3        |
| Delhi                | 47.1          | 49.7          | 47.3          | 42.7         | 44.5         | 43.3         | 9.4        | 10.4       | 8.6        |
| Goa                  | 49.8          | 50.3          | 51.5          | 42.9         | 45.9         | 47.3         | 13.9       | 8.7        | 8.1        |
| Gujarat              | 49.8          | 51.3          | 55.9          | 47.4         | 49.7         | 54.7         | 4.8        | 3.2        | 2.0        |
| Haryana              | 45.5          | 46.2          | 45.8          | 41.7         | 41.9         | 42.9         | 8.4        | 9.3        | 6.4        |
| Himachal Pradesh     | 62.4          | 67.4          | 73.2          | 58.9         | 63.9         | 70.5         | 5.5        | 5.1        | 3.7        |
| Jammu & Kashmir      | 53.9          | 55.8          | 56.3          | 51.0         | 52.9         | 52.5         | 5.4        | 5.1        | 6.7        |
| Jharkhand            | 45.1          | 47.4          | 55.9          | 41.7         | 44.9         | 53.6         | 7.5        | 5.2        | 4.2        |
| Karnataka            | 51.6          | 51.2          | 55.5          | 49.1         | 49.3         | 53.1         | 4.8        | 3.6        | 4.2        |
| Kerala               | 46.5          | 49.3          | 50.3          | 41.2         | 44.9         | 45.3         | 11.4       | 9.0        | 10.0       |
| Madhya Pradesh       | 56.7          | 54.2          | 59.4          | 54.3         | 52.3         | 57.7         | 4.3        | 3.5        | 3.0        |
| Maharashtra          | 53.1          | 53.3          | 57.5          | 50.5         | 50.6         | 55.7         | 4.8        | 5.0        | 3.2        |
| Manipur              | 48.1          | 48.9          | 50.3          | 42.5         | 44.3         | 45.5         | 11.5       | 9.4        | 9.5        |
| Meghalaya            | 63.2          | 63.5          | 60.2          | 62.3         | 61.8         | 58.6         | 1.6        | 2.7        | 2.7        |
| Mizoram              | 51.6          | 49.0          | 53.8          | 46.4         | 45.6         | 50.7         | 10.1       | 7.0        | 5.7        |
| Nagaland             | 41.8          | 46.1          | 60.3          | 32.8         | 38.1         | 44.8         | 21.4       | 17.4       | 25.7       |
| Odisha               | 48.3          | 51.2          | 55.3          | 44.9         | 47.6         | 51.9         | 7.1        | 7.0        | 6.2        |
| Punjab               | 46.5          | 47.7          | 51.6          | 42.9         | 44.2         | 47.8         | 7.7        | 7.4        | 7.3        |
| Rajasthan            | 50.7          | 53.0          | 57.6          | 48.2         | 50.0         | 55.0         | 5.0        | 5.7        | 4.5        |
| Sikkim               | 60.9          | 63.0          | 70.4          | 58.7         | 61.1         | 68.8         | 3.5        | 3.1        | 2.2        |
| Tamil Nadu           | 55.1          | 55.1          | 58.4          | 51.0         | 51.4         | 55.3         | 7.5        | 6.6        | 5.3        |
| Telangana            | 53.9          | 55.1          | 59.9          | 49.8         | 50.6         | 55.7         | 7.6        | 8.3        | 7.0        |
| Tripura              | 45.1          | 46.6          | 51.2          | 42.0         | 41.9         | 49.6         | 6.8        | 10.0       | 3.2        |
| Uttarakhand          | 43.9          | 45.4          | 53.4          | 40.6         | 41.4         | 49.5         | 7.6        | 8.9        | 7.1        |
| Uttar Pradesh        | 44.6          | 43.2          | 47.1          | 41.8         | 40.8         | 45.1         | 6.2        | 5.7        | 4.4        |
| West Bengal          | 50.1          | 51.6          | 52.1          | 47.8         | 49.7         | 49.7         | 4.6        | 3.8        | 4.6        |
| A & N Islands        | 57.9          | 56.7          | 57.0          | 48.7         | 49.1         | 49.8         | 15.8       | 13.5       | 12.6       |
| Chandigarh           | 51.5          | 51.1          | 48.5          | 46.9         | 47.3         | 45.5         | 9.0        | 7.3        | 6.3        |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 66.6          | 69.6          | 74.4          | 66.3         | 68.6         | 72.2         | 0.4        | 1.5        | 3.0        |
| Daman & Diu          | 65.2          | 55.1          | 66.4          | 63.2         | 55.1         | 64.5         | 3.1        | 0.0        | 2.9        |
| Lakshadweep          | 43.7          | 43.1          | 55.6          | 34.4         | 29.5         | 48.0         | 21.3       | 31.6       | 13.7       |
| Puducherry           | 42.2          | 52.1          | 51.7          | 37.8         | 47.8         | 47.7         | 10.3       | 8.3        | 7.6        |
| Ladakh               | -             | -             | 62.8          | -            | -            |              | -          | -          | 0.1        |
| All-India            | 49.8          | 50.2          | 53.5          | 46.8         | 47.3         | 62.7 50.9    | 6.0        | 5.8        | 4.8        |

Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4004 for 28.03.2022 raised by Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik  and others.

## Sector-wise Impact on Number of Employees during Lockdown Period (25 th March, 2020 to 30 th June, 2020)

| Sl.   | Sectors                    | Number of Employees (in Lakhs)               | Number of Employees (in Lakhs)               | Number of Employees (in Lakhs)   | Number of Employees (in Lakhs)   |
|-------|----------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| No.   |                            | Prior to Lockdown (before 25 th March, 2020) | Prior to Lockdown (before 25 th March, 2020) | As on 1 st July, 2020            | As on 1 st July, 2020            |
|       |                            | Male                                         | Female                                       | Male                             | Female                           |
| 1.    | Manufacturing              | 98.7                                         | 26.7                                         | 87.9                             | 23.3                             |
| 2.    | Construction               | 5.8                                          | 1.8                                          | 5.1                              | 1.5                              |
| 3.    | Trade                      | 16.1                                         | 4.5                                          | 14.8                             | 4                                |
| 4.    | Transport                  | 11.3                                         | 1.9                                          | 11.1                             | 1.9                              |
| 5.    | Education                  | 38.2                                         | 29.5                                         | 36.8                             | 28.1                             |
| 6.    | Health                     | 15                                           | 10.6                                         | 14.8                             | 10.1                             |
| 7.    | Accommodation &Restaurants | 7                                            | 1.9                                          | 6.2                              | 1.7                              |
| 8.    | IT/BPOs                    | 13.6                                         | 6.3                                          | 12.8                             | 6.1                              |
| 9.    | Financial Services         | 11.5                                         | 5.9                                          | 11.3                             | 5.7                              |
| Total | Total                      | 217.8                                        | 90.0                                         | 201.5                            | 83.3                             |

Note: "The number in the 'Total' row also take into account the 66 establishments found during the survey which belong to the sectors other than the nine selected sectors".

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