In the first quarter (April-June) of the current financial year, nine sectors including IT-BPO, manufacturing have given 3.08 crores jobs. In the survey conducted by the Ministry of Labor, it was told that this figure is 29 percent more than the 2.37 crores of employment in the same quarter of 2013-14.
Releasing the survey report on Monday, Union Labor and Employment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said, that 29% created more jobs in the first quarter of this year than the sixth economic index released in 2013-14. The Labor Bureau has prepared this survey by collecting quarterly data from nine sectors of the organized and unorganized sectors. The agriculture sector is not included in this.
The survey covers manufacturing, construction, education, trade, transport, health, hotel-restaurant, IT-BPO, and financial services sectors. All these data have been collected with utmost transparency and responsibility. Its purpose is to assess the actual status of employment in every sector of the country, to take the welfare schemes run by the government to the last rung of the society. The survey revealed that during the lockdown (from March 25 to June 30), they paid 81 percent of the employee’s full salary.
How much employment in which sector
Manufacturing- 41%
Education- 22%
Health- 8%
Business- 7%
IT-BPO- 7%
The fastest growth in IT-BPO
According to the survey, during the first quarter, IT-BPO grew the most at 152 percent. Apart from this, 77 percent growth was registered in the health sector, 39 percent in education, 22 percent in manufacturing, 68 percent in transport, 48 percent in the financial services sector, and 42 percent in the construction sector. However, the business sector declined by 25 percent, while the hotel-restaurant sector also suffered a decline of 13 percent.
90 percent of institutions have less than 100 employees
In 90 percent of the organizations surveyed, less than 100 employees were working, compared to 95 percent during the Economic Index-6. However, 35 percent of the IT-BPO institutions employed at least 100 employees while 13.8 percent of the institutions employed more than 500 employees. In the health sector also, over 100 people were posted in 18 percent of the institutions. However, the number of women employees declined to 29 percent from 31 percent in 2013-14.
