{"id":195466,"date":"2022-07-13T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195466"},"modified":"2022-07-13T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:19:20","slug":"create-more-jobs-revamp-employment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/create-more-jobs-revamp-employment-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Create more jobs, revamp employment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cCreate more jobs, revamp employment policy\u201d published in the \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 13th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS3 – Economy – Issues related to growth and development<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: Employment Generation;<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Government of India has recently announced a plan to create 10 lakh government jobs<\/strong> and fill up the vacant posts<\/strong> in the next 18 months.<\/p>\n

There are about 40 lakh sanctioned posts<\/strong>. At present, around 22% of the total posts are vacant<\/p>\n

What are the issues with the government announcement? <\/strong><\/h5>\n

The real number<\/strong> of vacant posts in the government might touch around 30 lakh<\/strong>. In addition to 8.72 lakh vacant positions<\/strong> in various departments of the Central government, there are also vacant positions in public sector banks, the defence forces and police, the health sector etc.<\/p>\n

Further, the above cited numbers do not include vacancies in State government jobs.<\/p>\n

The concerns have been raised on the quality of employment<\/strong> that will be generated. For example:<\/p>\n

– The share of contract workers in total government employment has increased from 11.11 lakh in 2017 to 24.31 lakh in 2021.<\/p>\n

– There are \u201chonorary workers\u201d <\/strong>such as Anganvadi and Accredited social health activist (ASHA) workers, etc, who receive very low consolidated wages and are not covered in a social security net <\/strong>as recommended by the International Labour Organization (ILO).<\/p>\n

More jobs are needed<\/strong>: The magnitude of unemployment in India is very high.<\/p>\n

– According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), there are about 30 million unemployed people, <\/strong>at present in India and according to the World Bank (WB), around 50 lakh-70 lakh workers<\/strong> will be added annually.<\/p>\n

– Therefore, 10 lakh jobs in the next 18 months will not have much impact on the present unemployment problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The employment generated by the government under its proposed plan must be of a standard quality. <\/strong><\/p>\n

At present, the Government should take the lead over the private sector in creating as many jobs as possible. The private sector<\/strong> is struggling to overcome the shocks<\/strong> caused by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/strong> The private firms cannot be expected to create employment opportunities.<\/p>\n

Focus on basic needs: <\/strong>The government can create more employment <\/strong>in areas where the government is required to provide basic needs<\/strong>. For example, health and nutrition, education, and other basic infrastructure, etc. The government should focus on serving the bottom<\/strong> 40% of the population <\/strong>without doing privatisation in these areas.<\/p>\n

The government should reorient the industrialisation policy <\/strong>to focus on labour-intensive sectors<\/strong> of the economy, and to promote Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)<\/strong>. For example, to provide better technology, finances (including working capital) and working towards cluster development<\/strong> for all industries.<\/p>\n

Urban employment: <\/strong>The urban employment guarantee programme should be launched to create ample urban employment avenues for urban youth. For example, day-care centres can be set up for childcare to enable women to reduce their unpaid services etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201cCreate more jobs, revamp employment policy\u201d published in the \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 13th July 2022. Syllabus: GS3 – Economy – Issues related to growth and development Relevance: Employment Generation; News: The Government of India has recently announced a plan to create 10 lakh government jobs and fill… Continue reading Create more jobs, revamp employment policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-195466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}