ANU(ChandigarhCityNews)
“Time is running out. Jobs should be created urgently.” According to various data sources, in 2009 (under the Manmohan Singh government) the country created 10 lakh jobs. Up until 2011, around 9 lakh new jobs were created each year on an average. However, this number fell sharply in 2012 and it continued to fall further till it reached a point of only 1.35 lakh new jobs in 2015 (data after analysing eight employment-intensive industries). This was in sharp contrast to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of creating one crore jobs every year. According to Labour Bureau data, job creation could be at the lowest level in the past eight years. The eight employment-intensive industries were able to create 1.35 lakh jobs in 2015 compared to 4.21 lakh jobs in 2014, as per the employment survey.
Male Female Jobs Ratio
Compared to GDP growth, India’s job creation has been marginal and it will continue to fall if immediate redressal is not done. “Many parts of the system must be changed together for the system to create more jobs, enterprises and livelihood,” ‘Future of Jobs in India’. “We have learnt but looks like the system has not learnt,”