Lok Sabha Question No. 201 (STARRED), answered on 2025-08-04
Subject: Employment in Government Sector Companies
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Mrs Ruchi Vira

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK  SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. *201

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04 TH  AUGUST, 2025

## EMPLOYMENT IN GOVERNMENT SECTOR COMPANIES

*201.  MRS RUCHI VIRA:

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

- (a) whether  unemployment  still  remains  a  major  challenge  in  the country despite repeated assurances from the Government;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  steps  taken  by  the Government in this regard; and
- (c) the details of the number of the Government sector companies across the country which have provided employment to the youth along with the number of youth employed by these companies during the last five years and the current year, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (DR. MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

(a) to (c): 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.  *201  DUE  FOR  REPLY  ON  04.08.2025  BY  MRS  RUCHI  VIRA,  M.P. REGARDING ' EMPLOYMENT IN GOVERNMENT SECTOR COMPANIES '

(a) & (b): 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.

As  per  the  latest  available  Annual  PLFS  reports,  the  estimated Unemployment Rate (UR) on usual status for persons age 15 years and above has decreased from 6.0% in 2017-18 to 3.2% in 2023-24.

As  per  the  data  available  in  latest  Annual  PLFS  Reports,  the estimated  Worker  Population  Ratio  (WPR),  indicating  employment  on usual status for persons aged 15 years and above during the year 2019-20 to 2023-24 are as follows:

(in %)

| Year    |   WPR |
|---------|-------|
| 2019-20 |  50.9 |
| 2020-21 |  52.6 |
| 2021-22 |  52.9 |
| 2022-23 |  56   |
| 2023-24 |  58.2 |

Source: PLFS, MoSPI

The  data  indicates  that  the  Worker  Population  Ratio,  indicating employment (including Government Sector Companies), for persons age 15 years and above has an increasing trend over the years in the country. The  State/UT-wise  estimated  Worker  Population  Ratio  (WPR)  on  usual status for persons age 15 years and above are available at https://www.mospi.gov.in/download-reports?main\_cat=ODU5&cat=All&sub\_category=All

Employment generation coupled with improving employability is a priority  of  the  Government.  Accordingly,  Government  is  implementing various employment generation schemes/ programmes. These inter-alia 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 (DAY-

NULM), PM Street Vendor's Atm aNirbhar  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.

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  information  on  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 14.07.2025, more than 6.43 crore (which inter-alia include Government, Private and Public Sector Undertaking) vacancies have been mobilised on NCS Portal.

In  addition,  the  Union  Cabinet  has approved  Employment  Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme named as the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PMVBRY) to support employment generation, enhance employability and social security across all sectors, with special focus on the manufacturing sector.

(c):    As  per  information  provided  by  Central  Public  Sector  Enterprises (CPSEs) in Public Enterprises Survey (PE Survey), the year-wise number of CPSEs along with the number of all employees reported are as follows:

| Year    |   Number of CPSEs |   Number of all employees (in lakhs) |
|---------|-------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 2019-20 |               250 |                                14.74 |
| 2020-21 |               258 |                                13.72 |
| 2021-22 |               261 |                                14.62 |
| 2022-23 |               261 |                                14.9  |
| 2023-24 |               271 |                                15.19 |

Source:  Survey  Division,  Department  of  Public  Enterprises,  Ministry  of Finance

The State/UT-wise number of youth employed by these companies during the last five years is at Annexure.

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Annexure

Annexure referred in Part(c) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question *201 due for reply on 04.8.2025

State/UT Wise Number of all employees as submitted by CPSEs for the year 2023-24

| Sr. no.             | Name of the State/UT      | Number of All employees As on 31.03.2024   |
|---------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| 1                   | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 940                                        |
| 2                   | Andhra Pradesh            | 64,377                                     |
| 3                   | Arunachal Pradesh         | 1,664                                      |
| 4                   | Assam                     | 44,322                                     |
| 5                   | Bihar                     | 26,298                                     |
| 6                   | Chandigarh                | 920                                        |
| 7                   | Chhattisgarh              | 89,855                                     |
| 8                   | Dadra & Nagar Haveli      | 456                                        |
| 9                   | Daman and Diu             | 104                                        |
| 10                  | Delhi                     | 35,287                                     |
| 11                  | Goa                       | 4,615                                      |
| 12                  | Gujarat                   | 66,401                                     |
| 13                  | Haryana                   | 41,111                                     |
| 14                  | Himachal Pradesh          | 5,068                                      |
| 15                  | Jammu & Kashmir           | 12,603                                     |
| 16                  | Jharkhand                 | 1,31,992                                   |
| 17                  | Karnataka                 | 76,167                                     |
| 18                  | Kerala                    | 34,300                                     |
| 19                  | Ladakh                    | 381                                        |
| 20                  | Lakshadweep               | 51                                         |
| 21                  | Madhya Pradesh            | 97,417                                     |
| 22                  | Maharashtra               | 1,68,549                                   |
| 23                  | Manipur                   | 662                                        |
| 24                  | Meghalaya                 | 843                                        |
| 25                  | Mizoram                   | 258                                        |
| 26                  | Nagaland                  | 746                                        |
| 27                  | Odisha                    | 1,26,826                                   |
| 28                  | Puducherry                | 2595                                       |
| 29                  | Punjab                    | 20,936                                     |
| 30                  | Rajasthan                 | 55,271                                     |
| 31                  | Sikkim                    | 970                                        |
| 32                  | Tamil Nadu                | 1,09,472                                   |
| 33                  | Telangana                 | 36,778                                     |
| 34                  | Tripura                   | 3,103                                      |
| 35                  | Uttar Pradesh             | 86,103                                     |
| 36                  | Uttarakhand               | 19,756                                     |
| 37                  | West Bengal               | 1,35,736                                   |
| State/UT wise Total |                           | 15,02,933*                                 |

Source: Survey Division, Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance