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Indian Express
7 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Over 4.25 lakh vacancies in Haryana,' Centre tells Lok Sabha; ‘why are these jobs not reaching the youth?' asks Sirsa MP Kumari Selja
Union Minister of State of Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje on Monday said that 4.25 lakh job vacancies were reported from Haryana as on July 10, 2025, according to the National Career Service (NCS) portal. 'The government has approved the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme named as the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana to support employment generation, enhance employability and social security across all sectors, with special focus on the manufacturing sector,' the minister told the Lok Sabha. She was replying to a question by Congress's Sirsa MP Kumari Selja whether the government has formulated any scheme to provide employment opportunities to the youth in Haryana. Selja had also sought details of the schemes and their implementation. Reacting to the reply, Selja said, 'When the government itself admits that there are lakhs of vacancies, then why are these jobs not reaching the youth of Haryana? Unemployment has pushed the state's youth toward despair, and this despair is fueling drug abuse and crime.' Selja highlighted that due to unemployment, the graph of drug addiction and crime is continuously rising in the state. The government is promoting schemes only on paper but has failed to provide employment at the ground level, she criticised. 'The government should immediately begin the recruitment process for all pending vacancies, ensure transparency and timeliness in recruitment, and launch special employment and skill development campaigns in areas affected by drug abuse and crime. I would like to warn that if the government does not take concrete steps soon, the future of Haryana's youth will be in serious jeopardy,' she said. In her response, the union minister stated that employment generation, coupled with improving the employability of youth, is a priority of the government. 'Accordingly, the government is implementing various employment generation schemes/ programmes in the country, including in the State of Haryana. These inter-alia include Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), Rural Self Employment and Training Institutes (RSETIs), Deen Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM), PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi), Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), Start Up India, etc. The details of various employment generation schemes/programmes being implemented by the government may be seen at Minister Shobha Karandlaje said. The Ministry of Labour and Employment is running the National Career Service (NCS) portal which is a one-stop solution for providing career related services, including information on jobs from private and government sectors, information on online and offline job fairs, job search and matching, career counselling, vocational guidance, information on skill development courses, skill/training programmes etc. through a digital platform www, the minister stated. 'One of the objectives of the NCS scheme is the setting up of Model Career Centres (MCCs). The ministry had approved 4 MCCs in Haryana. These centres connect local youth and other job-seekers with job opportunities through the use of technology as well as career counselling and training. As such, these MCCs act as a hub for organising job fairs, mobilising the employers, providing career counselling at the local level etc, in collaboration with states and other institutions for the jobseekers and employers through outreach activities', the MoS said in the reply.
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Job fair in Eluru on July 11
The District Employment Office–Eluru, in collaboration with the Department of Employment and Training and the National Career Service (NCS), will organise a job fair at 10 a.m. on July 11 at the District Employment Office, Eluru. District Employment Officer V. Varalakshmi, in a statement on Tuesday, said several reputable companies would participate in the job fair. Candidates instructed to dress formally and bring their resumes along with original educational and identification documents. Prior registration is mandatory and can be completed online at . For real-time updates, candidates can join the WhatsApp group at . For further queries, job seekers may email or contact 8886882032.
Economic Times
08-07-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Beyond coding: Why India's young engineers must look past computer science in the age of AI and green tech
US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) brings out occupational outlook handbooks. After you apply filters for pay, projected growth rate and new jobs, the 2025 Outlook picks 10 occupations. Six of them relate to computer and information sciences, two to finance, one to management, and one to medical and health service course, if you are gifted with special talent in music, sport, writing or other creative arts, you would be well-advised to ignore the BLS and nurture your talent all the way to success, or even fame. If you have an aptitude for celebrity, venality, draft-dodging, tax-dodging, felony, real estate development and grievance-mongering, you know where to head. In India, we do have a National Career Service. But it only offers to direct you to counsellors. But practically all the 7,000-odd engineering colleges have their own lists of preferred engineering courses. Here, too, the first preference is for computer sciences, laced with AI and ML now. Computer sciences and software development have, indeed, been India's favoured engineering disciplines ever since Indian geeks on H-1B visas gained a toehold and foothold in the land of opportunity for the express purpose of slaying the Y2K highest revenue per employee among India's big tech companies is for HCL, at a little over $61,000. This is puny compared to the $1 mn-plus earning per employee for US tech giants. Still, this was enough for the Indian tech industry to serve as the vehicle through which India's young achieved social whatever branch of engineering you studied, you joined a tech company, learned to code, and you entered the ranks of the middle class, paying EMIs for homes, phones, cars and holidays, and boosting the Indian economy. AI threatens to put paid to a whole lot of routine programming jobs, enabling an efficient coder to increase his productivity 15-20x. In the US, where software developers are engineers, and programmers are anybody who can write code, programming jobs have been joining the bison, the 4-legged cougar, and the American liberal, as they grope their way into the AI is a high-skill job, with Meta offering some geeks sign-on bonuses worth millions of dollars. Bachelors in computer sciences and AI from some random engineering college in India will not even get a look-in at such jobs. However, opportunities are opening up in all kinds of engineering fields, thanks to the green energy transition, and compulsion on India to fortify national security in communications and power transmission, and indigenise defence technology and the latest scare over Chinese withholding of rare earth magnets to users around the world, including in India. We either have to get more rare earths of our own than is available from IREL (India) Ltd, or develop motors that do not depend on rare earth-doped permanent magnets. Along with battery minerals, this creates demands for power engineers, and mining, mechanical and chemical engineers. The transition to sustainable energy calls for significant increases in RE generation, whether wind, solar or biodigestion, and battery storage. Battery minerals call for expertise in prospecting, mining and ore refining. Developing batteries with high-storage capacity, fast-charging times, and low weight calls for expertise in power engineering, chemistry, materials, design and miniaturisation. Developing magnetic reluctance motors that dispense with rare earth- doped permanent magnets calls for expertise in power engineering, and in microelectronics to control the speed of these are the high-flying hope in new deftech, especially after Ukraine's Operation Spider against Russia, in which drones packed into crates inside trucks were smuggled into Russia, parked near air force bases, and remotely released from their cages to attack parked planes and inflict heavy damage on strategic and building drones that are lightweight and long-range, are capable of acting as loitering munitions or early warning systems, that can be controlled without radio guidance, and all sorts of other kinds, calls for combinations of different kinds of engineering and design. How to kill enemy drones is another challenge. Bursts of laser or microwave radiation could kill their electronics. How to miniaturise power sources for such bursts and make them mobile all along the border is another our power grid, drones or computer systems from being hacked and disabled calls for another combination of engineering skills. Low Earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites are increasingly vital in communications and national security. Building LEOs, and launching them at scale, will create an entire new space industry, calling for engineering talent specific to it is, in this dawn of new opportunity to be an engineer. But to be a young engineer, in any discipline, is very heaven. Let us stop obsessing over computer sciences alone. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this column are that of the writer. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. As GenAI puts traditional BPO on life support, survival demands a makeover India Inc is ditching dollar loans. 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Hans India
07-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Promises of millions of jobs bound to fall flat in India
Tall claims are usually made by political parties that they would create millions of jobs, if they are voted to power. Alternatively, in the same vein they also promise unemployment insurance in case of any delay from their side as regards honouring the promise. Data about job creation in India expose the tall claims as there is no scope for generating employment in such a large proportion, implying that promises on this count are unfounded and far away from implementation. In order to facilitate a meeting between job seekers and job providers, the Union Government launched the 'National Career Service' portal on July 20, 2015. As per the portal' s dashboard, as of May 26 this year, around 47.51 lakh active employers are registered on the portal, though vacancies are only estimated at 9.59 lakh. As per the 2024-25 annual report of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, there are approximately 441.5 lakh job seekers. These statistics reveal the yawning gap between the number of jobs available and the number of job seekers. The figures are reinforced by the data made available by the Director General of Employment (DGE). It considers persons in the age-group of 15-29 years as youth, whose figure stood at 372.1 million in 2021. This many experts opine is a very low estimate. According to them, there are about 610 million are in the working age. Of this, about 330 million are engaged in the non-farm sector and the livelihood of about 280 million are from agriculture and allied activities. The DGE data will further substantiate the statistics. The agency conducts the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) from time to time. As per its latest survey, the Worker Population Ratio (WPR) has gone up from 46.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 56 per cent, in addition to a significant rise in the Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) from 49.8 per cent to 57.9 per cent during the same period. Hence, if we consider job creation only for youth, we would be erring in recognising the basic issue of joblessness. We need to pragmatically consider that about 56 per cent of the population is available and willing to work. In the light of the improvements in life expectancy, re-employment after retirement also needs to be taken into consideration while computing job creation figures. It is also claimed by many governments that as a major job creator, the IT sector is a panacea for unemployment. The fact of the matter is that these projections are totally different when it comes to ground realities. As per a NASSCOM report, the Indian IT sector, which was worth $ 254 billion in 2021-22 will rise to $ 350 billion by this year. By the end of Financial Year 2021-22, the IT industry employed about 5.1 million; and is able to add about 60,000 jobs annually. It is projected that this sector would be able to add about 1.25 lakh a year by the FY 2025-26. Most of the skill development training sessions organized for the youth are aimed at this sector alone. With facts remaining so, where is the question of creating employment by the millions? In the context of regular and permanent jobs turning scarce, the gig economy is emerging as an alternative employment source for many job seekers. The gig workforce in the country is estimated at around 10 million now and is expected to grow by about 30 per cent every year. Not surprising that companies like Swiggy, Zomato and Rapido have become household names. To what extent these activities would secure the future of the youth needs to be pondered. The Karnataka government recently stopped the operations of Rapido, which it contended was 'illegal' under the Motor Vehicles Act. Other States could follow suit as it involves legal validity. The Central and various State Governments often proclaim that they are releasing 'job calendars', charting out timelines for creating jobs. The NDA government at the Centre as assured to create two crore jobs every year. The State governments will not be found wanting on this front. As indicated earlier, the number of job seekers as per NCS portal is 4.42 crore. Had the promise of two crore jobs a year been fulfilled, by now the scourge of unemployment should have been wiped out by now; unemployment is a stark reality in the country. The first ever monthly job data published by the Ministry of Statistics and Project Implementation recorded an Unemployment Rate (UR) of 5.1 per cent in April. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), has put the UR at an average of 8.17 per cent for the period 2018 to 2025 (February). If we compute the number of unemployed persons from the existing data, the figure would be a staggering 4.13 crore as per DGE and 6.6 crore as per CMIE. These calculations are done based on the persons in the age group of 15-29 years only. If we consider the population in the age group of 15-59 years, which is considered realistic in the present context, the number of persons seeking employment would be significantly higher. Shying away these facts, the parties in power claim that the UR has come down drastically and the numbers have turned negligible. Ipso facto, joblessness is a reality and the claims of the political parties are a fallacy. (The writer is a former Vice-Chancellor of Acharya Nagarjuna University)
India Gazette
27-06-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
Government tirelessly working to fill up vacant posts: Tripura CM
Agartala (Tripura) [India], June 27 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday said that the present state government is working to fill up the vacant posts. He also said, the government is opening special coaching centres for students. CM Saha said this while addressing an event- distribution of offers of appointment under Education (School) and Health and Family Welfare departments at Muktadhara Auditorium today. '222 appointment letters were given. We have appointed them through transparency and in the coming days also we will do this. Due to their hard work, they made success. After joining the work, they must give concentration on state and central government schemes and how to implement them so that people would be benefited. We must work for the people,' he said. CM Saha, who is also the Education and Health Minister of the state, said that so far 19,484 jobs were provided, including die-in-harness. 'If anyone gets a job, this is a happy moment for a family. We can understand how a job or employment is necessary for a family. The present state government is working to fill up the vacancy. We must listen to public grievances and have to solve them. We are also trying to create new employment opportunities. Over 5,700 jobs have been given through outsourcing. In the 2024-25 financial year, under National Career Service, around 305 persons got jobs,' he said. Saha also said that the unemployment rate has significantly declined, from 10 per cent in 2018-2019 to 1.7 per cent in the 2023-24 financial year. 'This signifies we are on the right track and we are fulfilling the promises of providing employment. PM Modi has always said government servants need proper training and you, the newly recruited, will also undergo training for capacity building. In 2022, PM Modi declared Viksit Bharat by 2047. Tripura is the only state where the E-office started from the Cabinet to the Panchayat level in a very short time. Now all files are being digitised, and for that, it will be maintained properly and can be stored in a proper way,' said Saha. He said that the government has done many more things for Education, starting from the implementation of the National Education Policy, the NCERT curriculum was started, Super 30 was introduced for the betterment of education and students. 'We have decided to open coaching centres in every sub-division on science and English. Some bindings are there. More new general degree colleges are being opened, competitive exam centres are also being opened,' he added. Education Special Secretary Raval Hamendra Kumar, Director Secondary and Elementary N.C. Sharma, in-charge Director Family Welfare and Preventive Medicine Anjan Das, Director of Health Services Tapan Majumder, Additional Secretary Health Rajib Datta were also present. (ANI)
