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| 28th
August 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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 Guj tops in job placements via govt agency
New Delhi: Gujarat has topped the list of 35 states and union territories in providing maximum number of job placements through employment exchanges, accounting for 5.5 lakh of the 8.3 lakh job offers facilitated by the government agency.
Labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge told Rajya Sabha in response to a question that in the three yearsfrom 2007 to 2009 Gujarat had managed to place 1.78 lakh, 2.17 lakh and 1.53 lakh workers, respectively, through employment exchanges. None of the other states was within striking distance. The second best, however, was Maharashtra that had managed to place nearly 8,000 in 2007; 11,000 in 2008 and 24,000 in 2009. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh were among other states in that order that had made some contribution along with Maharashtra.
An important agency before private enterprises replaced the public sector as the favoured employer, employment exchanges have lost their sheen in the postliberalisation phase. They, however, still remain an important mechanism for lower-category government jobs.
What is surprising is that all these states had a long list of applicants, who had registered with the employment exchanges with different vocational capabilities.
Though Left-ruled Bengal and Kerala were among the top five states that had highest number of people registered with employment exchanges, their placement records were dismal. In Bengal, 64 lakh were registered on May 31,2010 while the figure for Kerala that was third on the list of unemployedwas 30.14 lakh. TN came second, with 55.65 lakh unemployed.
Across the country, the total number of job seekers registered with employment exchanges as on May 31,2010, were around 3.8 crore. Maharashtra, UP, Andhra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh and Haryana were among the top 10 states with highest registered unemployed.
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