The Centre on Monday released an employment survey that showed growth in nine non-farm-related sectors of the economy. These nine selected sectors are manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurant, IT/ BPO and financial services.
Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday released the report of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) (April to June 2021) of the All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES).
The survey claimed employment in the nine sectors was at 3.08 crore in the April-June quarter of 2021-22, reflecting a growth of 29 per cent compared with 2.37 crore reported in the Economic Census of 2013-14.
Despite the growth in jobs, the survey also throws light on the disruption caused by the three-month-long COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. D.P.S. Negi, principal adviser to the labour and employment ministry, told The Times of India, “Total employment (between the three-month lockdown period) fell from 3.078 crore to 2.848 crore or by 24 lakh. This has been slightly more than made up during July 2020 and March 2021, making the total employment figure on April 1 as 3.08 crore.”
"Of the total employment estimated in the selected nine sectors, manufacturing accounts for nearly 41 per cent followed by education with 22 per cent, and health 8 per cent. Trade as well as and IT/BPO each engaged 7 per cent of the total estimated number of workers," Yadav said.
Sharing the findings on the pandemic-induced employment retrenchment/decline, he informed that it was found that the impact was evident in 27 per cent of the establishments; however, the silver lining was that 81 per cent of the workers received full wages during the lockdown period (March 25-June 30, 2020).
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According to the survey, the most impressive growth of 152 per cent has been recorded in the IT/BPO sector, while growth rates in health are 77 per cent; in education, it is 39 per cent; in manufacturing, it is 22 per cent; in transport, it is 68 per cent and in construction, it is 42 per cent.
However, the survey stated that employment in trade came down by 25 per cent and in accommodation and restaurant, the decline was by 13 per cent. Financial services saw a 48 per cent growth in employment.
