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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's job growth lowest since 2009: Where are the jobs PM Modi? -Sindhu Bhattacharya

India's job growth lowest since 2009: Where are the jobs PM Modi? -Sindhu Bhattacharya

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published Published on Apr 15, 2016   modified Modified on Apr 15, 2016

-FirstPost.com

New Delhi: 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. So, even as the country’s GDP growth continues to be healthy and predictions of above-average rainfall this year bring some cheer, the bad news on the jobs’ front needs the government’s immediate focus. A jobless growth does not help anyone. As per the Bureau, no new jobs were created but there was actually a decline of 20,000 jobs across eight labour intensive sectors in the December quarter of 2015.

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Remember, the September quarter of the same year had added 1.34 lakh new jobs across the same eight sectors and was still the slowest quarter in the previous six years (barring 2012 where quarter wise data was not available). 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.

Here's some easy math for grasping the enormity of this slowdown in jobs under the NDA: The Modi government took charge in mid-2014 and for that full year, 4.93 lakh jobs were added across these eight sectors. So job addition in the first full year of this government fell to just a fourth of 2014 and was only a tenth of the growth seen in 2009, when the UPA was in power.

BN Rai, All India president of the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, pointed out that no government policy has been visible till now to arrest workforce reduction and generate new jobs. He said there has been a consistent demand from BMS for a National Employment Policy but the government has not been heeding to these requests. A recent examples of job destruction, according to Rai: The closure of beedi making units for the last one month on pictorial warnings’ issue which is affecting 24 lakh workers. Remember, this is the BJP affiliated workers’ union and its disillusionment with the stance of the Modi government on job creation.

Earlier this month, Niti Ayog vice-chairman, Arvind Panagariya, had pointed towards a fabulous opportunity for job creation in India, saying China is slowing down. Wages in that country remain abnormally high and labour is becoming increasingly scarce. Ideally, Chinese industry should be looking towards cost effective Indian manufacturing with abundant and cheap labour to get its mojo back. Will the Chinese opportunity be seized by Indians? Panagariya admitted that job creation remains one of the biggest challenges for the NDA government and then went on paint a rosy picture of the possibilities the Chinese slowdown has created for the Indian job market. He said that an average Chinese worker draws about Rs 5 lakh per annum in the manufacturing sector, which is obviously making Chinese manufacturing unviable. He also mentioned specific industries like clothing and footwear which are looking to set up manufacturing plants outside China because of labour issues.

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”. He went on to say that even when it comes to industry, firms with less than 20 workers in the unorganized sector employ almost three fourths (73 percent) of the total manufacturing sector workforce though these firms account for only 12 percent of the manufacturing output in India (as per the 2011-12 data).

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FirstPost.com, 15 April, 2015, http://www.firstpost.com/business/where-are-the-jobs-mr-modi-2731002.html?utm_source=FP_CAT_LATEST_NEWS


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