Lok Sabha Question No. 2643 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-17
Subject: Schemes for Employment
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav

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

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2643 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17 TH  MARCH, 2025

## SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYMENT

## 2643.   SHRI SANJAY HARIBHAU JADHAV:

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

- (a) the  unemployment  rate  in  the  country  during  the  last  three financial years;
- (b) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  introduce  any  centrally sponsored scheme to provide employment to the youth in NorthEastern States and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the  details  of  child  labour  and  their  participation  rate  in  the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

(a) to (c): 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 Unemployment Rate (UR) on usual status for persons of age 15 years and above are 4.1%, 3.2% and 3.2% during 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively.

Employment  generation  coupled  with  improving  employability  of all including youth in North-Eastern States is a priority of Government and is a multi-stakeholder initiative The various Ministries/ Departments of Government  of  India  like Ministry  of  Micro,  Small  &  Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology etc. are implementing different employment  generation  schemes/  prog rammes  like  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),  National  Handicrafts  Development  Programme etc., which, along with increase in capital expenditure, seeks to boost employment  creation.  The  details  of  various  employment  generation schemes/programmes  being  implemented  by  the  Government  of  India may be seen at https://dge.gov.in/dge/schemes\_programmes.

Under  the  Government  of  India's  Skill  India  Mission  (SIM),  the Ministry  of  Skill  Development  and  Entrepreneurship  (MSDE)  delivers skill, re-skill and up-skill training through an extensive network of skill development  centres/ institutes etc. under various schemes,  viz. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) and Craftsman Training Scheme (CTS) through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country including North-Eastern States. The SIM aims at  enabling youth of India to get future ready, equipped with industry relevant skills. 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 vacancies have been mobilised on NCS Portal.

The Government  has enacted Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986. The Act provides for complete prohibition of work or employment of children below 14 years of age in any  occupation  and  processes.  The  Act  also  prohibits  the  work  or employment  of  adolescents  in  the  age  group  of  14  to  18  years  in hazardous occupations and processes.

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