Question : Rising Unemployment

(a) the causes of rising unemployment in India;
(b) the number of recruitments done by the Government on a permanent basis, year-wise in last 10 years;
(c) the company-wise number of job opportunities currently being provided by private companies in the country, along with the State-wise and Union Territory-wise details thereof including Bihar, West Bengal and Gujarat;
(d) whether there is any provision for private companies to provide job to the local people in the company and if so, the details thereof; and
(e) the number of local people who have got employment at present along with the company-wise and State-wise details thereof?

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

(a) & (b): As per the results of annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation during 2017-18, the estimated unemployment rate on usual status (principal status + subsidiary status) basis for persons of age 15 years and above in the country was 6.0%.


Recruitment under central government is primarily made by various recruitment agencies namely Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Staff Selection Commission (SSC) and Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) etc. Besides these, many Ministries/Departments have their own recruitment mechanism for certain posts in their domain. There is no centralized agency to collect data from all recruitment agencies and from States/UTs. The Government posts are regularly filled up in accordance with the prescribed recruitment rules. The year-wise number of persons recruited through the main recruitment agencies of the Central Government as available in the Ministry of Labour and Employment is given below:
Year No. of candidates recommended by UPSC
No. of candidates recommended for appointment by SSC
No. of candidates empanelled/ recruited by RRB
Employment in
Central Public Sector Enterprises
(in Lakh)
2009-10 4506 10576 21107 14.90
2010-11 6015 23658 13155 14.40
2011-12 7935 84473 47572 14.50
2012-13 5707 63401 96352 14.02
2013-14 8852 48842 63431 13.49
2014-15 8358 58066 47186 12.91
2015-16 6877 25138 79803 11.85
2016-17 5740 68880 26318 11.35
2017-18 6314 45391 24462 10.88
2018-19 4422 16748 6493 N.A.
N.A.= Not available

The above figures do not include recruitments made by the various Ministries/Deptt. through their own mechanism, State Governments, Banks, Other Financial Institutions, Universities, Statutory/Autonomous Bodies and directly by the Ministries/Departments without going through UPSC, SSC and other recruiting agencies.
(c) to (e): Data regarding private companies are not maintained centrally.

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