Question : Category-wise Registration in Employment Exchanges

(a) the State, category and gender-wise details of educated and uneducated rural and urban youths from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and minority community registered with employment exchanges during each of the last three years and the current year;

(b) the State, category and gender-wise number of persons who have been provided employment during the said period; and

(c) the steps taken/being taken by the Government for creating additional employment opportunities for these deprived classes during the current year and in the coming years?

MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
(SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) & (b): As per the information received from the States, the State, gender and category-wise number of job seekers, all of whom may not necessarily be unemployed, registered on live register of employment exchanges and placement made through these employment exchanges in the country during 2013, 2014 and 2015 is given at Annexure-I to VI. Data for the year 2016 and 2017 is not available.


(c): The Employment generation coupled with improving employability is the priority concern of the Government. The Government is implementing various programs in this direction like encouraging private sector of economy, fast tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and Deendyal Antodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).

MUDRA and Start-Ups schemes are initiated by the Government for facilitating self-employment. In order to improve the employability of youth, around 22 Ministries/Departments run skill development schemes across various sectors.

Government has implemented the National Career Service (NCS) Project which comprises a digital portal that provides a nation-wide online platform for the job seekers and employers for job-matching in a dynamic, efficient and responsive manner and has a repository of career content.

A Scheme called Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) has also been launched by the Government in the year 2016-17 for incentivizing industry for promoting employment generation.

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