Lok Sabha Question No. 156 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-21
Subject: Schemes for Employment Generation
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Aashtikar Patil Nagesh Bapurao

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 156 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st  JULY, 2025

## SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

## 156.    SHRI AASHTIKAR PATIL NAGESH BAPURAO:

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

- (a) the  details  and  names  of  the  schemes  and  programmes  being implemented by the Government to check the unemployment and to  create  new  opportunities  in  the  country  during  the  last  three years and the current year;
- (b) the  achievements  made  in  this  regard  along  with  the  number  of youth got employment during the said period;
- (c) the  details  of  the  number  of  jobs  created  and  provided  by  the Government  in  the  Private  Sector  and  various  Public  Sector Undertakings  during  the  last  three  years  and  the  current  year, State/UT-wise; and
- (d) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  provide  any  unemployment allowance to unemployed youth?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

(a) to (d): Employment generation coupled with improving employability of the youth is a priority of the Government. Accordingly, Government is implementing  various  employment  generation  schemes/  programmes. These interalia include Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme  (PMEGP),  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY),  Rural  Self  Employment  and  Training Institutes  (RSETIs),  Deen  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana-National  Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAYNULM), PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi), Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), etc. The details of various employment generation schemes/programmes being implemented by the Government may be seen at https://dge.gov.in/dge/schemes\_programmes. The number of beneficiaries (including youth) under various schemes in the country is at Annexure-I.

In  addition,  the  Union  Cabinet  has approved  the  Employment Linked  Incentive  (ELI)  Scheme  to  support  employment  generation, enhance  employability  and  social  security  across  all  sectors,  with special focus on the manufacturing sector.

The  official  data  source  on  Employment  and  Unemployment  is Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) which is conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) since 2017-18. The survey period is July to June every year.

As  per  the  data  available  in  latest  Annual  PLFS  Reports,  the estimated  Worker  Population  Ratio  (WPR),  indicating  employment  on usual status for person of age 15 years and above and for youth (15-29 years) during the year 2020-21 to 2023-24 are as follows:

(in %)

| Year    |   WPR (15 years and above) |   WPR (15 - 29 years) |
|---------|----------------------------|-----------------------|
| 2020-21 |                       52.6 |                  36.1 |
| 2021-22 |                       52.9 |                  36.8 |
| 2022-23 |                       56   |                  40.1 |
| 2023-24 |                       58.2 |                  41.7 |

Source: PLFS, MoSPI

The data indicates that the Worker Population Ratio for person of age 15 years and above  and  for youth (15-29 years), indicating employment, has an increasing trend over the years in the country.

State/UT-wise details of Worker  Population Ratio (WPR)  are available in the PLFS reports and may be seen at https://www.mospi.gov.in/downloadreports?main\_cat=ODU5&cat=All&sub\_category=All

Further, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, is running the National Career Service (NCS) Portal which is a one-stop solution for providing career related services including jobs from private and  government  sectors,  information  on  online  &  offline  job  fairs,  job search & matching, career counselling, vocational guidance, information on skill  development courses, skill/training  programmes etc.  through a digital platform [www.ncs.gov.in]. As on 30.06.2025, more than 6.2 crore (which inter-alia include Government, Private and Public Sector Undertaking) vacancies have been mobilised on NCS Portal.

Under the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana (ABVKY), of Employees'  State  Insurance  Corporation  (ESIC),  the  unemployment benefit is paid as per eligibility to insured workers who lose their jobs. The unemployment benefit under the ABVKY has been enhanced to 50% from 25% of the average daily earning, payable upto 90 days.

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Annexure -I

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  of  part  (a)  to  (d)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred Question No. 156 due for reply on 21.07.2025.

## Employment generation/beneficiaries in Central Schemes

|   Sl. No. | Name of scheme/programme                                                                                             | 2021-22     | 2022-23     | 2023-24     |
|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|         1 | Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) (No. of Loan A/c))                                                                | 5,37,95,526 | 6,23,10,598 | 6,67,77,013 |
|         2 | Prime Minister Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi Scheme) (No. of beneficiaries)                         | 9,88,275    | 13,31,983   | 42,38,329   |
|         3 | Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) (No. of estimated employment generated)                     | 8,25,752    | 6,81,336    | 7,12,944    |
|         4 | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) (No. of Persondays                                  | 36310.21    | 29561.65    | 31226.02    |
|         5 | Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) (No. of candidates placed)                                   | 45,612      | 1,58,130    | 1,58,096    |
|         6 | Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) (No. of candidates settled)                                       | 14,796      | 21,110      | 23,835      |
|         7 | Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) (No. of skilled trained candidates placed) | 63,519      | 1,20,478    | 40,923      |

Source: Concerned Ministry