The job market remained skewed against women. For every one woman employed, 10 men got a job
Santosh Mehrotra, visiting professor, University of Bath, says recruiting close to 300,000 people in less than a month is highly unlikely as the process can be a long-drawn process
Latest PLFS shows unemployment rate fell to its lowest level of 3.2% in July-June 2022-23
Employment share of sectors exposed to AI has increased, with low and medium-skill jobs largely unaffected
Besides, the number of young subscribers belonging to the 18-28 age group declined by 9.54 per cent to 3.93 million this year from 4.34 million in the corresponding period last year
Workers in rural areas, women hit harder
Clean energy sectors added 4.7 million jobs globally, while fossil fuel jobs recovered more slowly after layoffs in 2020
NTPC is inviting eligible candidates for their recruitment drive, which aims to fill 50 executive vacancies. The last date to apply for the NTPC recruitment drive is November 10, 2023
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Saturday that his government has boosted employment opportunities in traditional as well as emerging sectors like renewable energy, defence industry and automation. He made the remarks as he distributed appointment letters to nearly 51,000 youths recruited in different government departments. He said his government and states ruled by the BJP and its allies have been holding 'Rozgar Mela' since October last year, and lakhs of youngsters have been given appointment letters so far. "Rozgar Mela underscores our government's commitment to the youth," he said, addressing the recruits through a virtual event. "Today, India is equipping its youth with skills and education to harness emerging opportunities. India's trajectory and the pace of its progress are generating new employment prospects across all sectors," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute more than 51,000 appointment letters to recruits on Saturday as part of the government's Rozgar Mela drive and also address them though video-conferencing. Rozgar Mela will be held at 37 locations across the country. A statement said recruitments are taking place across central government departments as well as in those states and Union Territories supporting this initiative. The recruits selected from across the country will be joining a host of departments, including railways, posts, home affairs, revenue, higher education, school education and literacy, health and family welfare among others. The statement said the Rozgar Mela is a step towards fulfilment the prime minister's commitment to accord highest priority to employment generation and is expected to act as a catalyst in further employment generation and provide meaningful opportunities to the youth for their empowerment and participation in national development.
The total investible corpus under the social security organisation has nearly doubled in the past five years. Earlier in FY19, the total corpus had stood at Rs 11.1 trillion
Women account for 23% of permanent employees; differently abled make up less than 1%
Payroll data released by the EPFO showed that cumulatively 4.92 million new subscribers have joined the social security organisation between April-August this year
The report also noted that there was an increase of 5 per cent in the share of flexi work as compared to other employment formats, to 66 per cent from 61 per cent last year
Bihar's biggest job fair till date is being held today, on Oct 19, 2023. As per the data received, this job fair is to provide employment to jobless youth and a camp will be set up in Jamui
The quality of jobs needs to improve
At the national level, the share of women in regular wage work has declined sharply to 15.9 per cent in 2022-23, from 21.9 per cent in the pre-pandemic period of 2018-19
The Prime Minister was referring to the Annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) which was conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) and its results released earlier this week