{"id":36326,"date":"2018-11-02T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36326"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:41:32","slug":"tap-gst-for-jobs-data-pm-appointed-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tap-gst-for-jobs-data-pm-appointed-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap GST for jobs data: PM-appointed panel:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/tap-gst-for-jobs-data-pm-appointed-panel\/article19210613.ece\">Tap GST for jobs data: PM-appointed panel<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog has proposed a plan of using Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the sample set to collect employment-unemployment data<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Proposal<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog recently recommended scrapping of the traditional employment-unemployment surveys that are carried out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) every five years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last such survey was carried out in 2011-12 and the one due in 2016-17 was skipped implying irregularity and inefficiency in data collection. Thus the very purpose of the office is getting compromised.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Justification of this Proposal<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GST Network (GSTN) will include enterprises of all sizes in the goods and services sectors with turnover exceeding 20 lakh<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continuous updating of GSTN will provide for an updated sample frame. Over 80 lakh firms are registered with the GSTN already.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A subset of the GSTN database-backed surveys could be used to generate monthly or quarterly enterprise-based employment estimates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For firms outside the GST net, Aayog has recommended separate annual surveys and an economic census every three years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way Forward<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new periodic labor force survey will be conducted annually to provide estimates of labor force, employment, unemployment, nature of employment and industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first such labor force survey has already been initiated in this April<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from a new GST-backed Survey approach, the NITI Aayog has called for a fresh definition of \u00a0formal employment to include any person who gets a Form 16 reflecting income tax deductions at source.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also workers covered under any one of the The Employees\u2019 State Insurance Act, 1948 or EPF and miscellaneous Provision Act 1952, government and other public sector employees, workers having coverage under private insurance or pension schemes of PFs,\u201d be considered formal workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A time use survey should also be conducted at three-year intervals to provide data on the time spent in various occupations and non-market activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the inputs are implemented, India will be able to generate reliable estimates of a number of critical variables for informed policy making.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap GST for jobs data: PM-appointed panel:\u00a0 Context \u00a0\u00a0NITI Aayog has proposed a plan of using Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the sample set to collect employment-unemployment data The Proposal NITI Aayog recently recommended scrapping of the traditional employment-unemployment surveys that are carried out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) every five years.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tap-gst-for-jobs-data-pm-appointed-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tap GST for jobs data: PM-appointed panel:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704270143},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36326","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}