Employment increases by 2.26 lakh in October-December quarter

Updated on: Saturday, March 24, 2012

Employment in the country during the October-December quarter last year increased by 2.26 lakh, continuing its upward trend,  said the government.

The increase was visible across all the sectors except leather and automobile during this quarter.

The Labour Bureau of the Labour and Employment Ministrys thirteenth quarterly survey report carried out to assess the effect of economic slowdown on employment in India' has published this report.

The survey was first carried out in 2008 following the slowdown in global economy, and since then the survey said overall estimated employment in all selected sectors has experienced a net addition of 25.84 till the latest survey.

The sectors taken to conduct the survey were textiles, leather, metals, automobiles, gems and jewellery, transport, IT/BPO and handloom/powerloom.

The October-December quarterly survey report said, that, at the sectoral level, the maximum increase of 1.09 lakh in employment was witnessed in IT/BPO sector during this period as compared to the same period a year before.

This was followed by increase of 0.78 lakh in textiles including apparels, 0.34 lakh in transport, 0.13 lakh in handloom/powerloom and 0.10 lakh in gems and jewellery.

The report further said that the maximum increase in overall employment by 1.94 lakh was seen in the direct category of workers as compared to 0.32 lakh in the contract category of workers.

In the export-oriented units, the employment at the overall level increased by 2.67 lakh while in the non-exporting units, it decreased by 0.41 lakh.

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