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Latest News |
| 28th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Guj tops in job placements via govt agency
New Delhi: Gujarat has topped the list of 35 states and
union territories in providing maximum number of job placements
through employment exchanges, accounting for 5.5 lakh
of the 8.3 lakh job offers facilitated by the government
agency.
Labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge told Rajya Sabha in
response to a question that in the three yearsfrom 2007
to 2009 Gujarat had managed to place 1.78 lakh,2.17 lakh
and 1.53 lakh workers, respectively, through employment
exchanges. None of the other states was within striking
distance. The second best, however, was Maharashtra that
had managed to place nearly 8,000 in 2007;11,000 in 2008
and 24,000 in 2009.Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh were
among other states in that order that had made some contribution
along with Maharashtra.
An important agency before private enterprises replaced
the public sector as the favoured employer, employment
exchanges have lost their sheen in the postliberalisation
phase. They, however, still remain an important mechanism
for lower-category government jobs.
What is surprising is that all these states had a long
list of applicants, who had registered with the employment
exchanges with different vocational capabilities.
Though Left-ruled Bengal and Kerala were among the top
five states that had highest number of people registered
with employment exchanges, their placement records were
dismal. In Bengal,64 lakh were registered on May 31,2010
while the figure for Kerala that was third on the list
of unemployedwas 30.14 lakh. TN came second, with 55.65
lakh unemployed.
Across the country, the total number of job seekers registered
with employment exchanges as on May 31,2010,were around
3.8 crore. Maharashtra, UP, Andhra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam,
hhattisgarh and Haryana were among the top 10 states with
highest registered unemployed.
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