GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

RAJYA SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1838

TO BE ANSWERED ON 17TH AUGUST, 2011

UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS IN THE COUNTRY

1838:   SHRI NARENDRA KUMAR KASHYAP:           

                 

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

(a)         the district-wise and State-wise, number of unemployed youths in the country at present;

(b)         whether Government proposes to implement the reservation quota in private jobs as well as to increase the shifts in the factories to reduce the problem of unemployment in the country;

(c)         if so, the details thereof; and

(d)         if not, the reasons therefor and the reaction of the Government thereon?

 

ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

(SHRI MALLIKARJUN KHARGE)

(a) State-wise number of youth job seekers in the age group of 15-29, all of whom may not be necessarily unemployed, registered with employment exchanges in the country as on 31st December 2008 is at Annex.  District-wise data are not maintained centrally.

 

(b) & (c) There is no such proposal under consideration of Government.  However, a Group of Ministers was formed in September, 2004, to examine issue of affirmative action, including reservation in private sector, and to initiate a dialogue with industry and other associations to fulfill aspirations of youth belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.  The Group met five times and also held consultations with representatives of Apex Industry Associations.  In October, 2006 a Coordination Committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, to carry forward the dialogue with Industry on affirmative action

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in private sector.  The Committee held discussions with representatives of Apex Industry Chambers/Associations.  As decided in the third meeting of the Coordination Committee held on 11.7.2008 a Group of Officers has been constituted in September, 2008, to study the issue of providing fiscal incentives to industries for setting up manufacturing units in backward districts with large SC/ST population.  Meetings of this Group of Officers and the apex industry associations were held in September, 2008 and February, 2009.  It was decided that the experiences of states in promoting industrialization and enhancing employment of SC/ST groups through incentives would be studied for designing a suitable fiscal incentive scheme for setting up manufacturing units in backward districts with large SC/ST population. 

      Ministry of Labour & Employment has no proposal to increase the shifts in the factories under the purview of Factories Act, 1948.

 

(d)  Government of India is fully aware of the magnitude of unemployment problem prevailing in the country particularly, among the youth and to tackle this problem, the Government has undertaken skill development in a big way. In order to achieve this objective, the coordinated Action Plan for Skill Development has set a target of 500 million skilled persons by the year 2022, and all concerned Ministries and Departments have been mandated to undertake skill development programmes accordingly. All the Government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) are being modernized. New Govt. and Private ITIs and ITCs are set up to augment training capacity. A new scheme, titled Skill Development Initiative has been started to train one million persons in five years and then one million every year in short term modular employable skills. In addition, Government has also been implementing various employment generation programmes and some of the important ones are: Swarnajayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojna, Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme .

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ANNEX

Statement referred to in reply to part (a) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question

No. 1838 due for reply on 17-8-2011

State-wise number of youth job seekers in the age group of 15-29 as on

31st December, 2008

(In thousand)

Sl. No.

States/UTs

 Job seekers

1

Andhra Pradesh

1473.3

2

Arunachal Pradesh

28.4

3

Assam

1480.3

4

Bihar

591.7

5

Chhattisgarh

970.4

6

Delhi

391.6

7

Goa

82.6

8

Gujarat

607.0

9

Haryana

618.8

10

Himachal Pradesh

514.2

11

Jammu And Kashmir

55.4

12

Jharkhand

671.4

13

Karnataka

453.6

14

Kerala

2892.6

15

Madhya Pradesh

1415.0

16

Maharashtra

2338.3

17

Manipur

391.7

18

Meghalaya

20.9

19

Mizoram

47.6

20

Nagaland

38.6

21

Orissa

594.7

22

Punjab

283.7

23

Rajasthan

632.0

24

Sikkim  *

 

25

Tamil Nadu

3593.3

26

Tripura

339.1

27

Uttarakhand

359.1

28

Uttar Pradesh

2168.3

29

West Bengal

3689.7

(B) Union Territories

30

A. & N. Islands

28.4

31

Chandigarh

30.5

32

D. & N. Haveli

5.5

33

Daman And Diu

7.6

34

Lakshadweep

10.1

35

Puducherry

139.9

 

Total

26965.3

* No Employment Exchanges is functioning in this State

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