3 out of 500 job seekers got placed in 2015: Employment exchanges data

Highlighting the grim situation of job placements in India amid mass information technology (IT) layoffs, data from employment exchanges show, most Indian states have registered a success rate of only 0.57 per cent in providing jobs. In other words, just three candidates got placed per 500 job seekers in 2015.

While Gujarat has emerged on top in terms of providing placement through exchanges, Tamil Nadu has the maximum number of job seekers with more than 8 million registrations with employment exchanges as against Gujarat, which had only 6,88,000 registrations.

Even the labour ministry earlier this month admitted that only a