Upward trend in employment continues despite slowdown

Updated on: Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Unaffected by the economic slowdown, employment in India has witnessed a growth of over 3.15 lakh between July and September last year, topping the 23 lakh job creation over the last three years.
 
The rise in employment was recorded particularly in eight sectors - textiles and apparels, leather, metals, automobiles, gems and jewellery, transport,IT, BPO, handloom and powerloom, according to a government survey released today.
 
The growth in this quarter has been maximum in the IT and BPO sector, which generated an additional employment of 2.04 lakh followed by an increase of 0.42 lakh in textiles including apparels, 0.38 lakh in metals, 0.22 lakh in automobiles, 0.09 lakh in handloom and powerloom, 0.07 lakh in gems jewellery.
 
The information for the twelfth quick employment survey covering the period from July to September, 2011 has been collected from 2,215 units and establishments by covering 21 centres spread across 11 states and UTs.
 
The current survey was to assess the impact of economic slowdown on employment in India.
 
The net addition of 23.58 lakh estimated employment has been registered in these sectors during the period of October, 2008 (first survey) to September, 2011 (twelfth survey)in the series of "Quarterly Quick Employment Survey in Affected Sectors" conducted by the Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
 
The overall employment in these sectors has increased by 3.15 lakh during the current quarter.
 
"The upward trend in employment has been continuously maintained since July 2009. During the quarter July to September 2011, employment has increased in respect of all sectors except Leather and Transport where there was a marginal fall," a release issued by the ministry said. 

The maximum increase in overall employment by 3.18 lakh is seen in the direct category of workers as compared to (-) 0.02 lakh in the contract category of workers at overall level during the period September, 2011 over June, 2011.
 
In the export oriented units, the employment at the overall level has increased by 1.96 lakh whereas in the non-exporting units, it has increased by 1.16 lakh during the period September, 2011 over June, 2011.
 
From September 2010 to September 2011, the overall employment has increased by 9.11 lakh, with the highest increase recorded in IT and BPO sector (7.96 lakh) followed by 1.07 lakh in metals, 0.71 lakh in automobiles, 0.08 lakh in gems and jewellery and 0.07 lakh in leather industries during the period.
 
In the twelfth quick employment survey, the sample establishments covered in the previous survey have been revisited to assess the changes in employment position.
 
The ministry has been continuously monitoring the effect of global financial crisis and economic slowdown in India since September 2008.

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