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News:
- Gujarat is seeing increasing discontent over the lack of adequate jobs for young people.
Important Facts:
- There has been an exodus out of northern Gujarat of Hindi-speaking migrant workers due to incident of revenge attack on them as a result of horrific rape of a toddler.
- Ipsos-Gates Foundation survey found that Indians were most worried about unemployment (48%).
- 6% of those surveyed and actively looking for work in Gujarat were not employed in September 2018.
- Economic Survey in 2016-17 pointed out that Gujarat is among the States, including Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal, with the highest net in-migration of workers.
- States that were relatively better developed were also host to more migrants.
- It stands to reason that migrants have played a vital role in providing growth in States like Gujarat by providing cheap labor in the many small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing and construction sectors.
- The Gujarat government has promised to make it mandatory for manufacturing and service sector companies to hire 80% of their workforce from the State’s domiciles and to reserve 25% of hires for residents from the location.
- Considering the economic role of migrant labor and ensuring job-oriented growth, the State must follow a more holistic policy of creating incentives for firms leading to greater employment, instead of merely dictating higher recruitment of locals.
- Apart from steps to arrest the violence against the migrants and stop the exodus, the Gujarat government must commit itself to a facilitating role for job-creation.
