NEW DELHI: Some of the flagship Employment generation and placement schemes, such as the PM’s Employment Generation Programme and Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, are expected to see a sharp decline in job creation during the current fiscal, according to data tabled in Parliament.
Details provided by the labour & employment ministry states that the number of jobs generated under PMEGP plummeted from 5.87 lakh in 2018-19 to 2.57 lakh in 2019-20 (until December 31, 2019). The fall is less sharp compared to 2017-18 when the number of persons who benefited was 3.87 lakh. The numbers were 4 lakh for 2016-17 and 3.23 lakh for 2015-16.
PMEGP is a credit-linked subsidy programme run by the ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises with Khadi and Village Industries Commission as the nodal agency for implementing the programme at the national level.
The 2019-20 PMEGP figures are the lowest since the Modi government assumed office in 2014. The sharpest decline in job generation is in Assam — from 29,896 in 2018-19 to 7,576 in 2019-20 — and in Jammu & Kashmir, from 60,232 to 20,336. Job generation shrank by more than half in Maharashtra (including Dadra and Nagar Haveli) from 45,136 in 2018-19 to 20,032 this year and in Odisha from 24,560 to 9,136.
Government data also pointed to a sharp decline in placement of people skilled under the DAY-NULM, where placements dropped from 1.78 lakh in 2018-19 to 44,066 in the current fiscal, according to data until January 27, 2020. As with PMEG, 2018-19 saw a higher number than 2017-18 (1,15,416) and 2016-17 (1,51,901).
The DAY-NULM is a government-run poverty reduction scheme which aims to give self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities to the urban poor. The drop was most drastic in states like Gujarat, where placements fell from 13,213 to 2,727 until January 27, 2020, and Madhya Pradesh, from 32,501 in 2018-19 to 2,784 in the current fiscal.
The government data on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), started by the Congress-led UPA government, shows a slowdown in 2019-20 with person-days generated falling from 26,796 in 2018-19 to 20,577, the lowest since 2015-16. Again, the fall is less drastic compared to person-days generated in 2017-18 (23,373) and 2016-17 (23,565).
The pace of skilling and placements under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana also declined, with the number of people trained falling from 2.4 lakh to 1.74 lakh, and the number getting jobs declining from 1.35 lakh in 2018-19 to 1.10 lakh this year. Interestingly here too 2018-19 stands out as a high performing year.
Labour & employment minister Santosh Gangwar, in response to a question by BJP MP Mahendra Solanki, said the government took various measures to generate employment, which included encouraging the private sector, fast-tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like PMEGP, MGNREGS, DDU-GKY, and DAY-NULM.
Details provided by the labour & employment ministry states that the number of jobs generated under PMEGP plummeted from 5.87 lakh in 2018-19 to 2.57 lakh in 2019-20 (until December 31, 2019). The fall is less sharp compared to 2017-18 when the number of persons who benefited was 3.87 lakh. The numbers were 4 lakh for 2016-17 and 3.23 lakh for 2015-16.
PMEGP is a credit-linked subsidy programme run by the ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises with Khadi and Village Industries Commission as the nodal agency for implementing the programme at the national level.
The 2019-20 PMEGP figures are the lowest since the Modi government assumed office in 2014. The sharpest decline in job generation is in Assam — from 29,896 in 2018-19 to 7,576 in 2019-20 — and in Jammu & Kashmir, from 60,232 to 20,336. Job generation shrank by more than half in Maharashtra (including Dadra and Nagar Haveli) from 45,136 in 2018-19 to 20,032 this year and in Odisha from 24,560 to 9,136.
Government data also pointed to a sharp decline in placement of people skilled under the DAY-NULM, where placements dropped from 1.78 lakh in 2018-19 to 44,066 in the current fiscal, according to data until January 27, 2020. As with PMEG, 2018-19 saw a higher number than 2017-18 (1,15,416) and 2016-17 (1,51,901).
The DAY-NULM is a government-run poverty reduction scheme which aims to give self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities to the urban poor. The drop was most drastic in states like Gujarat, where placements fell from 13,213 to 2,727 until January 27, 2020, and Madhya Pradesh, from 32,501 in 2018-19 to 2,784 in the current fiscal.
The government data on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), started by the Congress-led UPA government, shows a slowdown in 2019-20 with person-days generated falling from 26,796 in 2018-19 to 20,577, the lowest since 2015-16. Again, the fall is less drastic compared to person-days generated in 2017-18 (23,373) and 2016-17 (23,565).
The pace of skilling and placements under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana also declined, with the number of people trained falling from 2.4 lakh to 1.74 lakh, and the number getting jobs declining from 1.35 lakh in 2018-19 to 1.10 lakh this year. Interestingly here too 2018-19 stands out as a high performing year.
Labour & employment minister Santosh Gangwar, in response to a question by BJP MP Mahendra Solanki, said the government took various measures to generate employment, which included encouraging the private sector, fast-tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like PMEGP, MGNREGS, DDU-GKY, and DAY-NULM.
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