(a) whether the employment exchanges have fulfilled their objectives;
(b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
(c) the extent of modernisation of employment exchanges implemented so far under the
National e-governance plan; and
(d) the manner in which it is likely to strengthen the recruitment process and benefit
the unemployed persons?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT(SHRI HARISH RAWAT)
(a to d) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a to d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 370 BY
SHRI RUDRA MADHAB RAY AND SHRI BAIJAYANT JAY PANDA
(a) & (b) For a long time, the Employment Exchanges have been fulfilling the objectives
by carrying out various activities assigned to them, such as registration of job seekers,
submission of candidates against notified vacancies, collection of labour market information
and providing vocational guidance & career counseling to the job seekers. However, with the
passage of time, due to the shrinkage of job opportunities in organized sector, setting up of
major recruitment agencies such as Staff Selection Commission, Institute of Banking Personnel
Selection (IBPS), State Public Service Commissions, State Subordinate Service Selection Boards,
etc., many vacancies are not notified to the Employment Exchanges. Supreme Court judgement of
1996 gave freedom to employers to advertise their vacancies to seek nominations from open
market besides notification of vacancies to Employment Exchanges. A number of private
recruitment agencies and web portals have also come up for recruitment, particularly, in
the private sector.
(c) Up-gradation and Modernization of the Employment Exchanges (EEMMP) has been taken up as
one of the Mission Mode Projects (MMP) under National-e Governance Plan (NeGP) of Government
of India. The project is under finalisation.
(d) Under the project, a national web portal is proposed to be developed which will work
like a virtual job market. This will contain all the data regarding availability of skilled
persons on the one hand and requirement of skilled persons by the industry on the other.
It will help youth in getting suitable placement and enable industry to procure required
skills on real time basis.