Lok Sabha Question No. 149 (STARRED), answered on 2025-03-10
Subject: Employment Generation and Unemployment Allowance
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Murari Lal Meena

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. *149 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10 TH  MARCH, 2025

## EMPLOYMENT GENERATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE

## *149.   SHRI MURARI LAL MEENA:

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

- (a) the  number  of  jobs  created  and  provided  in  the  Government sector, private sector and various public sector undertakings during the last five  years  along  with  the  number  of  reserved posts therein, State -wise;
- (b) whether the Government proposes to provide any unemployment allowance to unemployed youth;
- (c) if  so,  the  manner  in  which  unemployment allowance is being provided and the time by which it is likely to be implemented; and
- (d)
- if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (DR. MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

(a) to (d):  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO. *149 DUE FOR REPLY ON 10.03.2025 BY Shri Murari Lal Meena, M.P. REGARDING 'Employment Generation and Unemployment Allowance'

(a) to (d): 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 youth of age 15-29 years during the year 2020-21 to 2023-24 are as follows:

(in %)

| Year    |   WPR |
|---------|-------|
| 2020-21 |  36.1 |
| 2021-22 |  36.8 |
| 2022-23 |  40.1 |
| 2023-24 |  41.7 |

Source: PLFS, MoSPI

The data indicates that the Worker Population Ratio for youth (15-29 years), indicating employment, has an increasing trend over the  years  in  the  country.  The  State/UT-wise  estimated  Worker Population  Ratio  (WPR)  for  youth  (15-29  years)  on  usual  status during 2020-21 to 2023-24 is at Annexure.

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),  Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), Rural Self Employment and Training Institutes (RSETIs), Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National  Urban  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM),  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.

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  28.02.2025,  more  than  4.7  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 referred to in reply of part (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. *149 due for reply on 10.03.2025

State/UT-wise estimated Worker Population Ratio (WPR) on usual status for youth of age 15-29 years.

| State/UTs                          | Working Population Ratio (%)   | Working Population Ratio (%)   | Working Population Ratio (%)   | Working Population Ratio (%)   |
|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|                                    | 2020 - 21                      | 2021 - 22                      | 2022 - 23                      | 2023 - 24                      |
| Andhra Pradesh                     | 40.2                           | 40.6                           | 40.7                           | 37.7                           |
| Arunachal Pradesh                  | 24.3                           | 20.0                           | 35.1                           | 40.0                           |
| Assam                              | 31.3                           | 37.6                           | 44.6                           | 44.0                           |
| Bihar                              | 21.3                           | 21.8                           | 27.0                           | 31.2                           |
| Chhattisgarh                       | 45.3                           | 47.9                           | 55.6                           | 57.8                           |
| Delhi                              | 31.9                           | 34.1                           | 33.2                           | 33.3                           |
| Goa                                | 31.2                           | 30.1                           | 36.6                           | 33.5                           |
| Gujarat                            | 44.8                           | 47.3                           | 50.3                           | 55.8                           |
| Haryana                            | 31.6                           | 28.7                           | 30.8                           | 34.6                           |
| Himachal Pradesh                   | 49.4                           | 51.3                           | 54.6                           | 52.9                           |
| Jharkhand                          | 46.1                           | 49.2                           | 46.7                           | 49.3                           |
| Karnataka                          | 39.3                           | 37.1                           | 40.5                           | 38.1                           |
| Kerala                             | 25.3                           | 28.9                           | 28.9                           | 28.5                           |
| Madhya Pradesh                     | 47.0                           | 44.7                           | 49.8                           | 56.6                           |
| Maharashtra                        | 36.5                           | 38.0                           | 39.6                           | 40.1                           |
| Manipur                            | 17.4                           | 18.7                           | 26.3                           | 24.3                           |
| Meghalaya                          | 37.5                           | 38.8                           | 41.6                           | 53.1                           |
| Mizoram                            | 28.3                           | 25.0                           | 25.1                           | 22.5                           |
| Nagaland                           | 21.5                           | 31.3                           | 38.9                           | 36.5                           |
| Odisha                             | 37.5                           | 36.3                           | 42.2                           | 46.3                           |
| Punjab                             | 33.8                           | 37.0                           | 39.2                           | 37.8                           |
| Rajasthan                          | 38.2                           | 37.6                           | 41.1                           | 44.1                           |
| Sikkim                             | 46.0                           | 50.2                           | 47.2                           | 52.6                           |
| Tamil Nadu                         | 35.3                           | 34.5                           | 32.9                           | 35.0                           |
| Telangana                          | 35.2                           | 38.2                           | 36.3                           | 40.7                           |
| Tripura                            | 33.2                           | 34.2                           | 36.4                           | 43.9                           |
| Uttarakhand                        | 30.9                           | 32.3                           | 37.5                           | 44.2                           |
| Uttar Pradesh                      | 33.1                           | 34.7                           | 38.5                           | 39.0                           |
| West Bengal                        | 39.7                           | 39.1                           | 43.3                           | 44.6                           |
| Andaman & N. Island                | 42.4                           | 39.2                           | 45.9                           | 43.3                           |
| Chandigarh                         | 27.8                           | 29.6                           | 34.3                           | 44.9                           |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu | 40.0                           | 57.9                           | 60.9                           | 56.9                           |
| Jammu & Kashmir                    | 33.4                           | 40.2                           | 41.2                           | 40.2                           |
| Ladakh                             | 14.3                           | 29.1                           | 25.0                           | 31.0                           |
| Lakshadweep                        | 19.4                           | 19.4                           | 21.0                           | 31.4                           |
| Puducherry                         | 31.3                           | 35.8                           | 31.6                           | 36.5                           |
| All India                          | 36.1                           | 36.8                           | 40.1                           | 41.7                           |

Source: PLFS, MoSPI