Unemployment is lowest in Gujarat
Gujarat Series -4
After 5 years, we may have to import people for employment in Gujarat
Gujarat has lowest unemployment rate among Indian states!
One of the biggest worries of contemporary times that has been agonizing the entire world is unemployment. Countries like the USA and UK and other developed nations like France and Germany too are feeling the brunt of unemployment rather severely. They too, find it difficult to eradicate the problem of acute unemployment.
In such a scenario, I was shocked when Mr. Amit Patel, a builder from Vadodara mentioned to me that they are facing problems in getting good people for employment in Gujarat. He stated that even if he was ready to pay good salary, he did not find people and joked that if the situation continues, then Gujarat may have to import people for employment.
This was corroborated by Dr. Suchitra Nene, a gynaecologist in Vadodara and Mrs. Swati Bedekar, who runs an NGO for women with centres in Dahod, Godhra, Vadtal and Ahmedabad.
A little more investigation and we found that Gujarat has taken lead in providing opportunity of employment to the people, since last seven years.
In some extremely positive news for Gujarat, the latest report for the year 2011-2012 by the Labour Bureau categorically states that Gujarat has the least unemployment rate among all states across the country. Daman and Diu has the lowest unemployment rate for Union Territories.
According to the report, while India’s jobless rate stood at 3.8% during the last fiscal, Gujarat showed lowest rate of less than 1%. The Report also noted that Gujarat has an extremely low unemployment rate among females in urban areas.
The Labour Bureau conducted this survey and the first such survey was conducted in 2009-2010. The Bureau is an apex organization for providing database at the national level for research and policy formation.
This report is yet another indication of Gujarat’s vibrant strides in every sphere including providing a steady stream of jobs for its people, especially the youngsters. At the core of these advances is the vision of Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi, who has been a staunch advocate of strengthening the people of the state with appropriate skill sets that would enable them to maximize their potential in the job market.
In the last decade, Gujarat has taken a super leap in development as the youth of the state is bustling with energy due to the enormous prospects of growth and progress.
In the last decade, more than 2 Lakh youth have been given jobs in the state govt.
For the smooth functioning of the state’s administration, the state govt. has given permission to create 1,15,000 new posts around the state. 71,542 posts have already been filled and the rest are on the way .
The state govt. has timely recognized the importance of educational field and keeping the significance of human resource development in the mind, about 1,21,000 posts have been filled by recruiting educational helper [Vidya Sahayak].
This decision has propagated the opening of jobs to huge numbers of young and educated and it has also brought a fresh and positive change in the administration.
In the last ten years, the state govt. of Gujarat has been instrumental, in providing employment occasions to more than 12.50 lakhs young unemployed, through Employment Exchange.
Gujarat has remained on the top position, since last seven years, in the entire country. In the year 2007, Gujarat’s share was about 73% in the entire country, in providing employment through Shram and Rojgar Vinimay Agency.
According to the Union Govt.‘s figures, All India Employment Exchange Agencies have provided 3,04,900 job opportunities. In which, Gujarat’s Govt.’s employment exchange agencies have created 2,17,700 job opportunities.
The state of Gujarat is progressing at a jet speed. Such giant steps towards progress require efficient human resources. The state has established 696 industrial training institutes and 161 vocation related courses.
A major impetus to job creation in Gujarat has come thanks to the great focus of the state Government on the development of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the last decade. Back in 2001, the state had 81,925 seats in ITIs but a decade later the figure shot up to 1,24,098. Other sweeping reforms in ITIs included updating the syllabus and increasing the scope of an ITI education- a student who passes out on ITIs can now avail of diploma and degree programmes in engineering. The biggest beneficiaries of these pro-people benefits of the Government have been the poor of Gujarat.
In the 2012-2013 Budget, the Finance Minister Shri Vajubhai Vala made substantial provisions for the vocational sector including a new scheme to train 4.5 lakh youngsters, the establishment of 10 new ITIs and increase capacity and infrastructure in the existing ones. Furthermore, the state Government has started 3000 skill development centres in rural areas. About 2.16 lakh students are getting training in soft skill centres out of which 50% are women.
34 I.T.I. started Motor Driving Schools. The trainees at Industrial training centers were provided with Group Accidental Insurance and were entitled to the insurance worth 1 lakh.
To provide proficient work force in the construction field, industrial training centers were endowed with training along with stipend.
Coaching cum Guidance was provided to ensure entry into Naval force.
Gujarat produces 70 % of total Salt production of the entire country. About 1 lakh laborers related to this field, have been presented with various schemes for their welfare.
Rural laborers have been offered schemes with funds to fight the serious ailments like Cancer, Heart troubles and Kidney diseases.
Due to the encouraging atmosphere for promoting Industry by the state govt. and the social and economical progress of the state has inspired employment opportunities even in the private sector.
The state govt. has started short term vocational courses in order to ensure employment to the young generation and for creating Opportunities through Employment Exchange, CNN-IBN-7 presented Diamond State Award to Gujarat in the year 2008.
Gujarat is celebrating this year as ‘Yuva Shakti Varsh’ or the ‘Year of Youth Power’ to commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary. As a part of the celebrations, the Gujarat Government observed the Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week in April this year during which Shri Modi himself handed over a record 65,000 job letters to youngsters at programmes held in South Gujarat, Kutch-Saurashtra, Central Gujarat and Ahmedabad. This has truly been a remarkable feat in itself.
A couple of months ago, Shri Modi launched eMPOWER which seeks to provide basic technology training to the people. More than a lakh people including youngsters had already registered for the programme when it was inaugurated. There is an automobile training centre in Sanand that has become very popular for job seekers.
Thus, the figures given by the Labour Bureau pertaining to Gujarat are not only extremely encouraging but also showcase the results of a determined decade long effort to strengthen the state’s population with skills and technology that enables them to find respectable jobs and enhance their potentials.
After 5 years, we may have to import people for employment in Gujarat
Gujarat has lowest unemployment rate among Indian states!
One of the biggest worries of contemporary times that has been agonizing the entire world is unemployment. Countries like the USA and UK and other developed nations like France and Germany too are feeling the brunt of unemployment rather severely. They too, find it difficult to eradicate the problem of acute unemployment.
In such a scenario, I was shocked when Mr. Amit Patel, a builder from Vadodara mentioned to me that they are facing problems in getting good people for employment in Gujarat. He stated that even if he was ready to pay good salary, he did not find people and joked that if the situation continues, then Gujarat may have to import people for employment.
This was corroborated by Dr. Suchitra Nene, a gynaecologist in Vadodara and Mrs. Swati Bedekar, who runs an NGO for women with centres in Dahod, Godhra, Vadtal and Ahmedabad.
A little more investigation and we found that Gujarat has taken lead in providing opportunity of employment to the people, since last seven years.
In some extremely positive news for Gujarat, the latest report for the year 2011-2012 by the Labour Bureau categorically states that Gujarat has the least unemployment rate among all states across the country. Daman and Diu has the lowest unemployment rate for Union Territories.
According to the report, while India’s jobless rate stood at 3.8% during the last fiscal, Gujarat showed lowest rate of less than 1%. The Report also noted that Gujarat has an extremely low unemployment rate among females in urban areas.
The Labour Bureau conducted this survey and the first such survey was conducted in 2009-2010. The Bureau is an apex organization for providing database at the national level for research and policy formation.
This report is yet another indication of Gujarat’s vibrant strides in every sphere including providing a steady stream of jobs for its people, especially the youngsters. At the core of these advances is the vision of Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi, who has been a staunch advocate of strengthening the people of the state with appropriate skill sets that would enable them to maximize their potential in the job market.
In the last decade, Gujarat has taken a super leap in development as the youth of the state is bustling with energy due to the enormous prospects of growth and progress.
In the last decade, more than 2 Lakh youth have been given jobs in the state govt.
For the smooth functioning of the state’s administration, the state govt. has given permission to create 1,15,000 new posts around the state. 71,542 posts have already been filled and the rest are on the way .
The state govt. has timely recognized the importance of educational field and keeping the significance of human resource development in the mind, about 1,21,000 posts have been filled by recruiting educational helper [Vidya Sahayak].
This decision has propagated the opening of jobs to huge numbers of young and educated and it has also brought a fresh and positive change in the administration.
In the last ten years, the state govt. of Gujarat has been instrumental, in providing employment occasions to more than 12.50 lakhs young unemployed, through Employment Exchange.
Gujarat has remained on the top position, since last seven years, in the entire country. In the year 2007, Gujarat’s share was about 73% in the entire country, in providing employment through Shram and Rojgar Vinimay Agency.
According to the Union Govt.‘s figures, All India Employment Exchange Agencies have provided 3,04,900 job opportunities. In which, Gujarat’s Govt.’s employment exchange agencies have created 2,17,700 job opportunities.
The state of Gujarat is progressing at a jet speed. Such giant steps towards progress require efficient human resources. The state has established 696 industrial training institutes and 161 vocation related courses.
A major impetus to job creation in Gujarat has come thanks to the great focus of the state Government on the development of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the last decade. Back in 2001, the state had 81,925 seats in ITIs but a decade later the figure shot up to 1,24,098. Other sweeping reforms in ITIs included updating the syllabus and increasing the scope of an ITI education- a student who passes out on ITIs can now avail of diploma and degree programmes in engineering. The biggest beneficiaries of these pro-people benefits of the Government have been the poor of Gujarat.
In the 2012-2013 Budget, the Finance Minister Shri Vajubhai Vala made substantial provisions for the vocational sector including a new scheme to train 4.5 lakh youngsters, the establishment of 10 new ITIs and increase capacity and infrastructure in the existing ones. Furthermore, the state Government has started 3000 skill development centres in rural areas. About 2.16 lakh students are getting training in soft skill centres out of which 50% are women.
34 I.T.I. started Motor Driving Schools. The trainees at Industrial training centers were provided with Group Accidental Insurance and were entitled to the insurance worth 1 lakh.
To provide proficient work force in the construction field, industrial training centers were endowed with training along with stipend.
Coaching cum Guidance was provided to ensure entry into Naval force.
Gujarat produces 70 % of total Salt production of the entire country. About 1 lakh laborers related to this field, have been presented with various schemes for their welfare.
Rural laborers have been offered schemes with funds to fight the serious ailments like Cancer, Heart troubles and Kidney diseases.
Due to the encouraging atmosphere for promoting Industry by the state govt. and the social and economical progress of the state has inspired employment opportunities even in the private sector.
The state govt. has started short term vocational courses in order to ensure employment to the young generation and for creating Opportunities through Employment Exchange, CNN-IBN-7 presented Diamond State Award to Gujarat in the year 2008.
Gujarat is celebrating this year as ‘Yuva Shakti Varsh’ or the ‘Year of Youth Power’ to commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary. As a part of the celebrations, the Gujarat Government observed the Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week in April this year during which Shri Modi himself handed over a record 65,000 job letters to youngsters at programmes held in South Gujarat, Kutch-Saurashtra, Central Gujarat and Ahmedabad. This has truly been a remarkable feat in itself.
A couple of months ago, Shri Modi launched eMPOWER which seeks to provide basic technology training to the people. More than a lakh people including youngsters had already registered for the programme when it was inaugurated. There is an automobile training centre in Sanand that has become very popular for job seekers.
Thus, the figures given by the Labour Bureau pertaining to Gujarat are not only extremely encouraging but also showcase the results of a determined decade long effort to strengthen the state’s population with skills and technology that enables them to find respectable jobs and enhance their potentials.
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