10-06-2006, 02:41 AM
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Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
The Left-ruled States are performing abysmally in giving employment to job seekers registered with the employment exchanges. <b>The 30-year-long Left rule in West Bengal gave jobs to only 7,300 aspirants in 2005 as against 72.91 lakh registered at 75 employment exchanges across the State. </b>Over 4 lakh job seekers were registered in the State last year.
However, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Gujarat led by the Left leaders' bete noire Narendra Modi tops the list of performing States by providing jobs to 92,000 unemployed persons in 2005,</span> followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The two States provided over 15,300 and 15,000 jobs respectively during the corresponding period.
<b>"The poor placement rate in a State like West Bengal is a sordid reflection on the Government's inability in filling up either existing vacancies at different levels and expanding the health and education infrastructure to generate more job vacancies. At the same time, one should not ignore the deteriorating condition of public sector units and small scale industries in the State,"</b> a Labour Ministry official said.
<b>In Tripura, another Left parties-ruled State, only 200 job seekers were given placements in 2005 as against the registration of over 24,000 youth at the State's </b>five employment exchanges. According to the data compiled by the Directorate General of Employment & Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment, for the year 2005,<b> Kerela, the only Left bastion in south India, registered over 3.24 lakh job seekers at 86 employment exchanges across the State, but only 9,700 registrants got placements.</b>
After Kerala and West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of employment exchanges of 84, where only 1,600 job seekers were placed in Government services and <b>Delhi where only 100 placements were made through 14 employment exchanges against the registration of 94,000 applicants</b>. In Karnataka, 1,700 applicants got jobs against the registration of over 1.54 lakh job seekers in 2005.
Among the worst performing States are <b>Andhra Pradesh, where 1,700 jobs were provided against the registration of over 3.77 lakh</b>. In <b>Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, J&K, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Daman and Diu, less than 50 persons</b> were given placements till December 2005.
The annual rate of growth of employment generation in the past years has been around 2.44 per cent against the growth rate of labour force at 2.51 per cent. Experts feel that this has resulted in an increase in the backlog of unemployment in the country every year.
"There is a need to place the target of employment generation at a rate sufficiently higher than that of the growth rate of labour force to reduce the backlog of unemployment," the official said.
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Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
The Left-ruled States are performing abysmally in giving employment to job seekers registered with the employment exchanges. <b>The 30-year-long Left rule in West Bengal gave jobs to only 7,300 aspirants in 2005 as against 72.91 lakh registered at 75 employment exchanges across the State. </b>Over 4 lakh job seekers were registered in the State last year.
However, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Gujarat led by the Left leaders' bete noire Narendra Modi tops the list of performing States by providing jobs to 92,000 unemployed persons in 2005,</span> followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The two States provided over 15,300 and 15,000 jobs respectively during the corresponding period.
<b>"The poor placement rate in a State like West Bengal is a sordid reflection on the Government's inability in filling up either existing vacancies at different levels and expanding the health and education infrastructure to generate more job vacancies. At the same time, one should not ignore the deteriorating condition of public sector units and small scale industries in the State,"</b> a Labour Ministry official said.
<b>In Tripura, another Left parties-ruled State, only 200 job seekers were given placements in 2005 as against the registration of over 24,000 youth at the State's </b>five employment exchanges. According to the data compiled by the Directorate General of Employment & Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment, for the year 2005,<b> Kerela, the only Left bastion in south India, registered over 3.24 lakh job seekers at 86 employment exchanges across the State, but only 9,700 registrants got placements.</b>
After Kerala and West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of employment exchanges of 84, where only 1,600 job seekers were placed in Government services and <b>Delhi where only 100 placements were made through 14 employment exchanges against the registration of 94,000 applicants</b>. In Karnataka, 1,700 applicants got jobs against the registration of over 1.54 lakh job seekers in 2005.
Among the worst performing States are <b>Andhra Pradesh, where 1,700 jobs were provided against the registration of over 3.77 lakh</b>. In <b>Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, J&K, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Daman and Diu, less than 50 persons</b> were given placements till December 2005.
The annual rate of growth of employment generation in the past years has been around 2.44 per cent against the growth rate of labour force at 2.51 per cent. Experts feel that this has resulted in an increase in the backlog of unemployment in the country every year.
"There is a need to place the target of employment generation at a rate sufficiently higher than that of the growth rate of labour force to reduce the backlog of unemployment," the official said.
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