Lok Sabha Question No. 115 (STARRED), answered on 2021-12-06
Subject: Unemployed Persons
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Rajendra Dhedya  Gavit

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *115 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06 TH  DECEMBER, 2021

## UNEMPLOYED PERSONS

- *115. SHRI RAJENDRA DHEDYA GAVIT:

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

- (a) whether the Government has announced that two crore unemployed persons will be provided job each year;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the progress made in this regard; and
- (c) the  number  of  appointments  made  in  all  the  Central  Government institutions during the last five years against the number of vacancies advertised/notified along with the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BHUPENDER YADAV)

- (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. *115 DUE FOR REPLY ON 06-12-2021 BY SHRI  RAJENDRA  DHEDYA  GAVIT  REGARDING  'UNEMPLOYED PERSONS'

(a) & (b): Employment generation coupled with improving employability is the priority of the Government. Accordingly, the Government of India has taken various steps for generating employment in the country. The Government of India is encouraging various projects involving substantial  investment  and  public  expenditure  on  schemes  like  Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)of the Ministry of Micro,  Small  &  Medium  Enterprises,  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) &Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY)of  the  Ministry  of Rural Development, Deen Dayal Antodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM)  of    the  Ministry  of  Housing  &  Urban Affairs  and  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Vikas  Yojana  (PMKVY)  of    the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) etc.

The  Government  of  India  has  announced  Aatmanirbhar  Bharat package  to  provide  stimulus  to  business  and  to  mitigate  the  adverse impact  of  Covid  19.  Under  this  package,  the  Government  is  providing fiscal stimulus of more than Rs. Twenty Seven lakh crore. This package comprises  of  various  long  term  schemes/  programmes/  policies  for making the country self-reliant and to create employment opportunities.

The  Government  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 Abhiyaan has achieved an employment generation of 50.78 crore persondays with a total expenditure of Rs 39,293 crore.

Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY) has been launched with effect  from  1st  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 implemented  through the 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. Benefits have been provided to 39.59 lakh beneficiaries through 1.17 lakh establishments.

Prime Minister Street Vendor's Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme has been launched on June 01, 2020 to provide working capital loans  to  Street  Vendors,  vending  in  urban  areas,  to  resume  their businesses,  which  were  impacted  adversely  due  to  COVID-19.  Under this scheme, amount of Rs 2641.46 crore has been disbursed to 26.46 lakh beneficiaries.

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is being implemented by the Government  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 Upto November  2021  31.28  crore loans  were sanctioned under the scheme.

Besides  these  initiatives,  various  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  ProductionLinked  Incentive  (PLI)  Scheme  are  also  oriented  towards  generating productive employment opportunities.

Recently, Government has launched All-India Quarterly Establishment Based Employment Survey (AQEES) in April, 2021. As per the  result  of  the  first  round  of  Quarterly  Employment  Survey  for  the period April to June 2021, employment increased to 3.8 crore in the nine selected sectors of the economy against a total of 2.37 crores in these sectors  taken  collectively,  as  reported  in  the  sixth  Economic  Census (2013-14) reflecting a growth rate of 29%. The most impressive growth of  152  percent  has  been  recorded  in  the  IT/BPO  sector,  while  growth rates in Health  is 77  percent,  in Education  it is 39  percent,  in Manufacturing  it  is  22  percent,  in  Transport  it  is  68  percent  and  in Construction it is 42 percent.

- (c):    There  were  31,32,698  employees  in  position  in  the  Central Government  Departments  as  on  01.03.2020.  There  were  9.20  lakh regular  employees  in  256  operating  Central  Public  Sector  Enterprises (CPSE).

Year-wise number of candidates nominated for Government jobs by three  major  recruiting  agencies  i.e.  Staff  Selection  Commission  (SSC), Union  Public  Service  Commission  (UPSC)  and  Railway  Recruitment Boards (RRBs), during last five years is given below:

| Year        | UPSC   | SSC      | RRBs     | Total    |
|-------------|--------|----------|----------|----------|
| 2016-17     | 5,735  | 68,880   | 27,538   | 1,02,153 |
| 2017-18     | 6,294  | 45,391   | 25,507   | 77,192   |
| 2018-19     | 4,399  | 16,748   | 17,680   | 38,827   |
| 2019-20     | 5,230  | 14,691   | 1,28,456 | 1,48,377 |
| 2020-21     | 4,214  | 68,891   | 5,764    | 78,869   |
| Grand Total | 25,872 | 2,14,601 | 2,04,945 | 4,45,418 |

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