Lok Sabha Question No. 1910 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-14
Subject: Contract and Casual Employees
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: P.R. Natarajan, Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1910 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.03.2022

## CONTRACT AND CASUAL EMPLOYEES

1910. SHRI NATARAJAN P.R.:

SHRI SADASHIV KISAN LOKHANDE:

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

- (a)whether the Government is having any statistics on the number of under  contract  and  casual  employment  in  the  country  at  present and if  so,  the  details  thereof  including  the  number  of  daily  wages workers;
- (b)the number of contract workers employed during the last four years industry and State-wise;
- (c)details  of  number  of  permanent  vacancies  available  in  various
- Government departments without any recruitment; and
- (d)whether  the  Government  is  seriously  considering  to  fill  up  all  the vacancies on year to year basis and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) & (b): The  employment  for  casual  workers  are  done  directly  by the  respective  establishments  (like  Central  Government,  States/UTs, CPSUs and autonomous bodies etc.) based on the requirement of the respective establishments. Therefore, data in respect to the number of causal workers and daily wages is maintained by respective organizations.

This  Ministry  maintains  the  consolidated  records/data  of contractual labourers/workers /employees, based on the licences and registration  certificate  issued  under  the  Contract  Labour  (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 in the central sphere. No such bifurcated data like  Industry  and  State-wise  of  contract  workers    is  maintained centrally.  The  number  of  contract  labourers  engaged  during  the  last four years in the central sphere based on the data of  the licences and registration  certificate  issued  under  the  Contract  Labour  (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 is as under :

|   Year |   Total No. of Contract Labour working under Central Sphere |
|--------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|   2018 |                                                     1178878 |
|   2019 |                                                     1364377 |
|   2020 |                                                     1324874 |
|   2021 |                                                     2430989 |

(c): The  estimated  number  of  vacant  posts  in  various Ministries/Departments  of  Central  Government  in  respect  of  regular civilian employees during the last three years are as follows:

| As on      | No. of vacant posts   |
|------------|-----------------------|
| 01-03-2018 | 6,83,823              |
| 01-03-2019 | 9,10,153              |
| 01-03-2020 | 8,72,243              |

(d): Filling up of vacancies is a continuous process. Government issues instructions to all the Ministries /Departments from time to time for timely and advance action to fill up the unfilled posts. Latest such instructions have been issued vide Department of Personnel and Training OM No. 43014/03/2019-Estt. (B) dated 21.01.2020 and 03.06.2021.

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