"A total of over 15,400 new jobs were created in six major cities of UP namely Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Kanpur, Lucknow and Meerut in calendar year 2013 in all categories and across various sectors.
This is against over 11,700 new jobs in 2012, thereby registering a year-on-year growth of about 32 per cent," according to a sector-specific analysis on job trends across the country conducted by the chamber.
"Of the total jobs across all categories generated in these cities, about 82 per cent new jobs were created in the entry level category alone," said Assocham's Secretary General D S Rawat.
The Assocham Economic Research Bureau (AERB) sourced their inputs primarily from data tracked on a daily basis for vacancies posted by about 4,500 companies via various job portals together with advertisements offering job opportunities published in national and regional newspapers across about 56 prominent cities and 32 sectors.