Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003 |
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Opinion
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Letters Job creation
This refers to "Job creation: Not just an economic problem" (Business Line, December 29). The article rightly emphasises the need for job creation in proportion to the growing population, and to replace the jobs being lost to increasing automation. According to the 2001 Census, the population increased from 84.63 crore in 1991 to 102.70 crore in 2001, showing a jump of 21.35 per cent over 1991 Census. But the percentage of workers in the total population increased from 37.12 per cent in 1991 to 39.19 per cent in 2001 — a mere 2 per cent increase! Surprisingly, instead of trying to create more jobs, many industries, both in the public and private sectors, are keen to send home the employees and cut down the `size' of the establishment. Many labour laws and the rulings of the courts of law are also not favourable to the working classes. One would be shocked to know that more than 500 candidates among those who recently applied for clerical posts in the Reserve Bank of India are graduates in engineering. The Centre should take concrete steps to create more jobs in proportion to the rising population. C. Ramesh Keeramangalam (TN)
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