All the Governments promise Jobs for Youth. The youth had a lot of faith and expectation from the BJP Government that it would get them Jobs. Even in AP and TS the chief Ministers of the respective states promised Jobs, but it is not so easy.
Promising is different and performing is different. The Telangana Government under the dynamic leadership of CM K Chandrasekhar Rao is able to give some government jobs here and there and it is keen to generate employment.
With abundant rains and water storage in all the districts of Telangana, the agriculture sector has picked up and the farming community is very happy.The IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao is also trying his level best to put Telangana on the globe for inviting best of the companies to Hyderabad and other districts.
Job creation has been suffering under the Modi Government and fresh data released by the Labour Bureau shows the extent of worry on this count.
Now, with the December quarter data in, the total number of new jobs created across the eight sectors between January-December 2015 stood at just 1.35 lakh. This is the slowest pace of new jobs being created since 2009.
The Modi government took charge in mid-2014 and for that full year, 4.93 lakh jobs were added across these eight sectors.
As per the NSSO data which is available till 2011-12, roughly half of India’s population (49 percent) is engaged in agriculture and Panagariya said he suspects there was a fair bit of underemployment in agriculture too.
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A K Padmanabhan of CITU said regardless of what government’s own jobs’ data showed, there had been a serious loss of jobs in the engineering, automobiles and even textile sectors.
In general the purchasing power of people must increase along with exports . Other wise the job situation will not improve? Government speaks of green shoots but on the ground, job creation is dismal.
It must be mentioned here that this is by no means a comprehensive or even widely representative sample of jobs being created across the country, even though the survey tracks some labour intensive industries like textile, jems and jewellery, IT/BPO and automobiles.
The government needs to map joblessness as well as creation of new jobs with a wider sample. But still, this is the only latest data available.
A new headache for the government could be the slow down of funding in the fast-paced e-commerce sector.
Lets hope the centre and states together will increase the pace of jobs creation in the near future before the 2019 polls.
U. Srinivas
Editor
