Lok Sabha Question No. 2232 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-14
Subject: Employment to Rural Women
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Kamlesh  Paswan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2232 ANSWERED ON 14/03/2023

## EMPLOYMENT TO RURAL WOMEN

## 2232.   SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any data on the unemployment among the rural women during each of the last three years and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government has initiated any action in this regard and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the number of rural women who have been provided employment in each State under various rural development schemes during the said period;
- (d) whether the Government has prepared any scheme to provide/promote employment to women during the current year and the next three years; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) : From  the  Periodic  Labour  Force  Survey  (PLFS)  conducted  by  the  National  Sample Survey Office (NSSO), during July 2019 - June 2020, July 2020 - June 2021 and July 2021 June 2022, estimated Unemployment Rate (UR) (in percent) according to usual status (ps+ss) among females in rural areas of India are given in Table 1 below:

Table 1: Unemployment Rate (UR) according to usual status (ps+ss) among females in rural areas of India during 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22

| Survey (year)   |   Female UR (in percent) according to usual status (ps+ss) in rural areas |
|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| PLFS, 2019-20   |                                                                       2.6 |
| PLFS, 2020-21   |                                                                       2.1 |
| PLFS, 2021-22   |                                                                       2.1 |

Source: Annual Report, PLFS, 2021-22

Explanatory note w.r.t. definition followed in the survey is at Annexure I

(b)  to  (e):  The  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  implementing  the  following  schemes  for providing employment to rural women:

- (i)  Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a major employment  generation  programme  in  rural  areas  of  the  country.  The  MGNREGA provides a legal guarantee for 100 days of employment in a financial  year to every rural  household  whose  adult  members  volunteer  to  do  unskilled  manual  work. State/UT-wise  rate  of  participation  of  women  (women  person-days  out  of  total  in percentage) under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last three financial years is given at Annexure II.
- (ii) With a view to provide a pucca house for the weaker sections living in rural areas, this Ministry  is  implementing  Pradhan  Mantri  Awaas  Yojana  -  Gramin  (PMAY-G), which aims to provide assistance to eligible rural households for construction of 2.95 Crore Pucca houses with basic amenities to achieve the objective of 'Housing for All' in rural areas.  As per the Framework for Implementation of PMAY-G in addition to house construction and basic amenities, the programme also provides employment for 90/95 days in convergence with MGNREGA. The State/UT wise details of Mandays generated in convergence with MGNREGA is given at Annexure II .
- (iii) The Ministry also implements two skill development programmes , as a sub scheme of DAY-NRLM,  for  skilling  of  rural  poor  youth  including  women  to  improve  their employability.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY): DDU-GKY is a placement  linked  skill  development  program,  being  implemented  since  September 2014  for  rural  poor  youth  in  the  age  group  of  15-35  years.  DDU-GKY  guidelines provide for earmarking 50% of the funds for SCs and STs and 15% for minorities. Further the scheme guidelines mandate that one third beneficiaries of the respective categories including general category covered under the scheme should be women.

Rural  Self  Employment  Training  Institutes  (RSETIs):  RSETI  is  a  Bank  lead  and MoRD  funded  training  programme.  The  sponsor  banks  establish  institutions  for training  in  their  lead  districts  to  provide  training  for  Skill  and  Entrepreneurship Development.  MoRD  extends  financial  support  for  the  construction  of  RSETI building and also bears the cost of training the Rural Poor candidates (including rural women). Any unemployed youth in the age group of 18-45 years having an aptitude to take up self-employment or wage employment and having some basic knowledge in  the  related  field  can  undergo  training  at  RSETI.  Some  of  the  trained  candidates may also seek regular salaried jobs / wage employment.

The  details  of  women  candidates  placed/  settled  during  the  last  three  years  under DDU-GKY and RSETIs are given at Annexure II .

- (iv) The Ministry is also implementing the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship programme (SVEP), a sub scheme under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NRLM)  with  the  objective  of  helping  the  rural  poor, including  artisans  and  weavers,  to  setup  enterprises  at  the  village  level  in  nonagricultural sectors.

## Annexure-I referred to  in  part  (a)  of  reply  to  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Q.  No.  2232  for reply      on 14.3.2023

1. Definition of worker (employed persons): Persons who, during the reference period, were engaged in any economic activity or who, despite their attachment to economic activity,  temporarily  abstained  from  work  for  reasons  of  illness,  injury  or  other physical  disability,  bad  weather,  festivals,  social  or  religious  functions  or  other contingencies constituted workers .
2. Definition of usual status worker (ps+ss): The workers in the usual status (ps+ss) are obtained by considering the usual principal status (ps) and the subsidiary status (ss) together. The workers in the usual status (ps+ss) include (a) the persons who worked for  a  relatively  long  part  of  the  365  days  preceding  the  date  of  survey  and  (b)  the persons from among the remaining population who had worked at least for 30 days during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey.
3. Seeking or available for work (or unemployed): Persons who, owing to lack of work, had not worked but either sought work through employment exchanges, intermediaries, friends or relatives or by making applications to prospective employers or expressed their willingness or availability for work under the prevailing conditions of work and remuneration, were considered as those 'seeking or available for work' (or unemployed).
4. Unemployed persons in usual status (ps+ss): The number of persons unemployed for a relatively long period during a reference period of 365 days is defined as unemployed in the usual principal  status or in usual status (ps). However, some of the unemployed on the basis of this criterion might be working in a subsidiary capacity. Therefore, the persons who are neither employed in PS  nor employed in SS but available for work (seeking or not) are defined as unemployed in usual  status (ps+ss).

```
Unemployment Rate (UR) =           (  no. of unemployed persons )             * 100 (no. of employed persons + no. of unemployed persons )
```

## Annexure-II referred to in parts (b) to (e) of reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No. 2232 for reply  on 14.3.2023

|   percentage) SI. No. | under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS State/UTs   |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |
|-----------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|                     1 | Andhra Pradesh                         |     60.07 |     57.26 |     57.79 |
|                     2 | Arunachal Pradesh                      |     40.47 |     41.33 |     44.64 |
|                     3 | Assam                                  |     41.77 |     44.08 |     47.56 |
|                     4 | Bihar                                  |     55.85 |     54.64 |     53.18 |
|                     5 | Chhattisgarh                           |     50.7  |     50.5  |     51.52 |
|                     6 | Goa                                    |     75.59 |     76.55 |     78.5  |
|                     7 | Gujarat                                |     45.13 |     46.52 |     46.57 |
|                     8 | Haryana                                |     50.59 |     48.8  |     52.63 |
|                     9 | Himachal Pradesh                       |     62.75 |     61.05 |     62.51 |
|                    10 | Jammu And Kashmir                      |     32.93 |     31.67 |     33.31 |
|                    11 | Jharkhand                              |     41.31 |     42.56 |     45.59 |
|                    12 | Karnataka                              |     49.12 |     49.47 |     50.05 |
|                    13 | Kerala                                 |     89.8  |     90.49 |     89.6  |
|                    14 | Ladakh                                 |     60.65 |     61.46 |     62.22 |
|                    15 | Madhya Pradesh                         |     38.11 |     40.49 |     41.03 |
|                    16 | Maharashtra                            |     43.41 |     42.93 |     43.64 |
|                    17 | Manipur                                |     48.99 |     52.03 |     52.56 |
|                    18 | Meghalaya                              |     50.51 |     51.37 |     50.57 |
|                    19 | Mizoram                                |     50.87 |     56.82 |     47.81 |
|                    20 | Nagaland                               |     35.63 |     36.31 |     38.15 |
|                    21 | Odisha                                 |     43.3  |     44.74 |     46.14 |
|                    22 | Punjab                                 |     58.79 |     56.92 |     60.37 |
|                    23 | Rajasthan                              |     67.33 |     65.68 |     66.56 |
|                    24 | Sikkim                                 |     51.07 |     51.17 |     52.63 |
|                    25 | Tamil Nadu                             |     86.3  |     85.37 |     85.7  |
|                    26 | Telangana                              |     61.5  |     58.06 |     59.06 |
|                    27 | Tripura                                |     47.03 |     47.62 |     47.49 |
|                    28 | Uttar Pradesh                          |     34.28 |     33.59 |     37.24 |
|                    29 | Uttarakhand                            |     56.62 |     55.14 |     55.4  |
|                    30 | West Bengal                            |     47.86 |     45.2  |     46.72 |
|                    31 | Andaman And Nicobar                    |     59.43 |     54.66 |     53.83 |
|                    32 | Lakshadweep                            |     11.63 |     13.04 |      0    |
|                    33 | Puducherry                             |     86.79 |     86.82 |     87.59 |
|                    34 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu     |      0    |      0    |      0    |

Annexure-II Annexure-II referred in part (b) to (e) of reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Qst. No. 2232 for reply  on 14.3.2023

| State/UT wise details of Mandays Generated under PMAY-G in Convergence with   | State/UT wise details of Mandays Generated under PMAY-G in Convergence with   | State/UT wise details of Mandays Generated under PMAY-G in Convergence with   |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| MGNREGA S.No.                                                                 | State                                                                         | Man-days Generated                                                            |
| 1                                                                             | ARUNACHAL PRADESH                                                             | 27348                                                                         |
| 2                                                                             | ASSAM                                                                         | 74860427                                                                      |
| 3                                                                             | BIHAR                                                                         | 222272913                                                                     |
| 4                                                                             | CHHATTISGARH                                                                  | 76234238                                                                      |
| 5                                                                             | GOA                                                                           | 0                                                                             |
| 6                                                                             | GUJARAT                                                                       | 19465429                                                                      |
| 7                                                                             | HARYANA                                                                       | 786495                                                                        |
| 8                                                                             | HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                              | 420557                                                                        |
| 9                                                                             | JAMMU AND KASHMIR                                                             | 6625771                                                                       |
| 10                                                                            | JHARKHAND                                                                     | 76905441                                                                      |
| 11                                                                            | KERALA                                                                        | 1777487                                                                       |
| 12                                                                            | MADHYA PRADESH                                                                | 248354226                                                                     |
| 13                                                                            | MAHARASHTRA                                                                   | 65342675                                                                      |
| 14                                                                            | MANIPUR                                                                       | 49622                                                                         |
| 15                                                                            | MEGHALAYA                                                                     | 2482178                                                                       |
| 16                                                                            | MIZORAM                                                                       | 176308                                                                        |
| 17                                                                            | NAGALAND                                                                      | 0                                                                             |
| 18                                                                            | ODISHA                                                                        | 142815390                                                                     |
| 19                                                                            | PUNJAB                                                                        | 1574682                                                                       |
| 20                                                                            | RAJASTHAN                                                                     | 97762424                                                                      |
| 21                                                                            | SIKKIM                                                                        | 37863                                                                         |
| 22                                                                            | TAMILNADU                                                                     | 22495142                                                                      |
| 23                                                                            | TRIPURA                                                                       | 15766517                                                                      |
| 24                                                                            | UTTAR PRADESH                                                                 | 116517181                                                                     |
| 25                                                                            | UTTARAKHAND                                                                   | 862324                                                                        |
| 26                                                                            | WEST BENGAL                                                                   | 267303031                                                                     |
| 27                                                                            | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR                                                           | 62463                                                                         |
| 28                                                                            | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI                                                        | 0                                                                             |
| 29                                                                            | DAMANAND DIU                                                                  | 0                                                                             |
| 30                                                                            | LAKSHADWEEP                                                                   | 0                                                                             |
| 31                                                                            | PUDUCHERRY                                                                    | 0                                                                             |
| 32                                                                            | ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                | 0                                                                             |
| 33                                                                            | KARNATAKA                                                                     | 0                                                                             |
| 34                                                                            | TELANGANA                                                                     | 0                                                                             |
| 35                                                                            | LADAKH                                                                        | 0                                                                             |
|                                                                               | Total                                                                         | 1460978132                                                                    |

## Annexure-II referred to in parts (b) to (e) of reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No. 2232 for reply   on 14.3.2023

State-wise and Year-wise details of women candidates trained and placed under DDU-GKY during the last three year:

| S. No.   | State/UT          | 2019-20       | 2019-20      | 2020-21       | 2020-21      | 2021-22       | 2021-22      |
|----------|-------------------|---------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|
| S. No.   | State/UT          | Women Trained | Women Placed | Women Trained | Women Placed | Women Trained | Women Placed |
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 6119          | 3810         | 1542          | 605          | 565           | 924          |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | 55            | 0            | 20            | 20           | 227           | 68           |
| 3        | Assam             | 6379          | 5747         | 1494          | 1798         | 2666          | 681          |
| 4        | Bihar             | 6744          | 2487         | 1402          | 1304         | 4021          | 1225         |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      | 6259          | 1966         | 608           | 1007         | 4505          | 1920         |
| 6        | Gujarat           | 1492          | 1055         | 172           | 400          | 454           | 289          |
| 7        | Haryana           | 983           | 1897         | 6             | 386          | 1019          | 411          |
| 8        | Himachal Pradesh  | 1079          | 393          | 0             | 62           | 161           | 6            |
| 9        | Jammu and Kashmir | 3988          | 532          | 1338          | 821          | 1091          | 481          |
| 10       | Jharkhand         | 8940          | 4400         | 693           | 1109         | 3624          | 1055         |
| 11       | Karnataka         | 3293          | 3597         | 523           | 643          | 988           | 261          |
| 12       | Kerala            | 6157          | 4064         | 1530          | 1323         | 1555          | 589          |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh    | 5629          | 3538         | 599           | 535          | 4556          | 2664         |
| 14       | Maharashtra       | 6868          | 5395         | 511           | 1273         | 204           | 911          |
| 15       | Manipur           | 1035          | 373          | 175           | 192          | 595           | 77           |
| 16       | Meghalaya         | 1026          | 445          | 38            | 62           | 254           | 168          |
| 17       | Mizoram           | 291           | 185          | 22            | 43           | 116           | 44           |
| 18       | Nagaland          | 385           | 118          | 102           | 100          | 477           | 185          |
| 19       | Odisha            | 25216         | 16161        | 4855          | 5165         | 7856          | 3902         |
| 20       | Punjab            | 887           | 637          | 1358          | 601          | 3601          | 2377         |
| 21       | Rajasthan         | 6774          | 1775         | 520           | 734          | 1853          | 1455         |
| 22       | Sikkim            | 304           | 16           | 0             | 43           | 30            | 7            |
| 23       | Tamil Nadu        | 5504          | 1550         | 133           | 612          | 4772          | 1691         |
| 24       | Telangana         | 4367          | 2425         | 828           | 996          | 1635          | 835          |
| 25       | Tripura           | 761           | 270          | 11            | 345          | 400           | 81           |
| 26       | Uttar Pradesh     | 11802         | 2281         | 870           | 1330         | 8565          | 2107         |
| 27       | Uttarakhand       | 864           | 284          | 104           | 269          | 2336          | 624          |
| 28       | West Bengal       | 3490          | 1039         | 231           | 862          | 230           | 966          |
| 29       | Puducherry*       |               |              |               | 0            | 87            | 36           |
| 30       | A&N Islands*      |               |              |               |              |               |              |
|          |                   |               |              |               | 0            | 0             | 0            |
| Total    | Total             | 126691        | 66440        | 19685         | 22640        | 58443         | 26040        |

(Source: DDU-GKY MIS: kaushalpragati.nic.in till Sept. 2021 & kaushalbharat.gov.in from Oct.2021 onwards)

*The program commenced in Pudducherry and A&N Islands in 2020-21.

## Annexure-II referred to in parts (b) to (e) of reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No. 2232 for reply  on 14.3.2023

State-wise  and  Year-wise  details  of  women  candidates  trained  and  settled  under  RSETI during the last three year:

| S.No.   | Name of the State           | FY 2019-20    | FY 2019-20    | FY 2020-21    | FY 2020-21    | FY 2021-22    | FY 2021-22    |
|---------|-----------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
| S.No.   | Name of the State           | Women Trained | Women settled | Women Trained | Women settled | Women Trained | Women settled |
| 1       | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 352           | 213           | 290           | 130           | 407           | 367           |
| 2       | Andhra Pradesh              | 6485          | 4515          | 3637          | 2794          | 5961          | 5089          |
| 3       | Arunachal Pradesh           | 105           | 133           | 8             | 23            | 128           | 0             |
| 4       | Assam                       | 8387          | 5325          | 5688          | 3608          | 7849          | 6666          |
| 5       | Bihar                       | 14648         | 11450         | 8760          | 6089          | 12828         | 9206          |
| 6       | Chattisgarh                 | 9348          | 6344          | 6635          | 4310          | 7612          | 6385          |
| 7       | D &NHaveli                  | 557           | 383           | 493           | 403           | 520           | 418           |
| 8       | Gujarat                     | 17688         | 12861         | 10593         | 7148          | 14701         | 12124         |
| 9       | Haryana                     | 9374          | 6417          | 8518          | 4753          | 9022          | 6572          |
| 10      | Himachal Pradesh            | 4073          | 2661          | 2889          | 1751          | 4346          | 2959          |
| 11      | Jammu &Kashmir              | 4618          | 3662          | 3033          | 2124          | 3403          | 2519          |
| 12      | Jharkhand                   | 12762         | 10769         | 9449          | 6333          | 12049         | 9444          |
| 13      | Karnataka                   | 14775         | 12445         | 10295         | 7653          | 12696         | 11246         |
| 14      | Kerala                      | 7941          | 7402          | 4099          | 3750          | 5092          | 4842          |
| 15      | Lakshadweep                 | 36            | 0             | 158           | 96            | 93            | 33            |
| 16      | Madhya Pradesh              | 21362         | 14353         | 15848         | 11639         | 17931         | 15122         |
| 17      | Maharashtra                 | 17601         | 14249         | 13998         | 10295         | 14620         | 12275         |
| 18      | Manipur                     | 306           | 247           | 147           | 214           | 281           | 217           |
| 19      | Meghalaya                   | 1087          | 628           | 799           | 506           | 1439          | 755           |
| 20      | Mizoram                     | 556           | 548           | 292           | 231           | 412           | 388           |
| 21      | Nagaland                    | 209           | 126           | 164           | 58            | 202           | 180           |
| 22      | Odisha                      | 17269         | 12953         | 14249         | 10487         | 14788         | 13088         |
| 23      | Pondicherry                 | 541           | 388           | 422           | 328           | 446           | 340           |
| 24      | Punjab                      | 6775          | 3907          | 6063          | 4202          | 7599          | 5732          |
| 25      | Rajasthan                   | 21310         | 14620         | 17338         | 10063         | 20634         | 17132         |
| 26      | Sikkim                      | 223           | 350           | 147           | 51            | 165           | 115           |
| 27      | Tamil Nadu                  | 19715         | 12157         | 12358         | 9409          | 14119         | 12227         |
| 28      | Telangana                   | 3765          | 3049          | 2186          | 1692          | 3807          | 3548          |
| 29      | Tripura                     | 1493          | 936           | 1399          | 395           | 1981          | 1376          |
| 30      | UT Ladakh                   | 235           | 101           | 261           | 123           | 466           | 271           |
| 31      | Uttar Pradesh               | 35508         | 27717         | 36429         | 20291         | 47894         | 41746         |
| 32      | Uttarakhand                 | 5134          | 4125          | 4935          | 3635          | 5361          | 3675          |
| 33      | West Bengal                 | 9897          | 6976          | 5214          | 3954          | 8255          | 6343          |
|         | TOTAL :                     | 274135        | 202010        | 206794        | 138538        | 257107        | 212400        |

(Source: Information provided by NACER)