Lok Sabha Question No. 2392 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-04
Subject: Unemployed Youth in the Country
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Malvinder Singh Kang

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2392 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04 TH  AUGUST, 2025

## UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IN THE COUNTRY

## 2392.   SHRI MALVINDER SINGH KANG:

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

- (a) whether  Government  are  aware  of a large number  of  educated unemployed youth in the country;
- (b)
- if so, the details thereof State/UT-wise; and
- (c) the details of the steps taken/being taken by the Government to tackle the problem of unemployment?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

- (a) & (b):   The official data on Employment and Unemployment is collected through Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which is conducted by 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 of age 15 years and above has decreased from 6.0% in 2017-18 to 3.2% in 2023-24. Similarly, the UR for youth aged 15 -29 years has dropped from 17.8% in 2017-18 to 10.2% in 2023-24.

State/UT-wise detailed information, including data on educated unemployed youth in the country are available in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) reports, which may be seen at https://www.mospi.gov.in/downloadreports?main\_cat=ODU5&cat=All&sub\_category=All

(c): Employment generation coupled with improving employability including 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 YojanaNational 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), Stand-up India Scheme,  Start  Up  India  ,  Pradhan  Mantri  Mudra  Yojana  (PMMY),  Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), 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.

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.

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 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, employability enhancement programmes, etc. through a digital platform[www.ncs.gov.in].

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