Action Plan For The Employment Of Rural

Action Plan for the employment of Rural & Urban INDIA In order to achieve Employment Generation, +10% GDP Growth per year, Reduction of Poverty and making Indian Enterprises World Class in terms of Quality & Cost By the use of Education & Training - Focus on LITERACY, ESD & VET A. 100% Primary Functional - Literacy. Learn to read & write in 40 to 60 hours or in 2 to 3 months, for ages 8 to 80 years! Nearly 350 to 500 million people are illiterate! Enterprise Skills Development - ESD. ESD for Class 1st to Class 12th students & higher. Only 1 to 2 hours required per week. Teaches the youth about enterprises & how the real world funtions! In India the dropout rate betwen Class 1st and Class 12th is 94%. C. Vocation Education & Training - VET. VET for youth of ages 14 to 35 years & higher. Choice of nearly 1200 modules, in 25 different business fields. In developed & developing countries nearly 90% to 95% of the youth opt for VET. If India trains 3% to 5% of the population in VET, like in other developed and developing countries, it would mean nearly 30 to 50 million trained & skilled people per year. Engineers, Doctors & MBA’s require world class supporting staff & manpower.We are not discussing’Higher Education’ since all the present focus in India is only on Higher Education! •

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The above is a simple diagramatic representation for understanding the employment & unemployment figures. 29 million people are born every year, average of the last ten years, 10 million die every year. While the population increase is only 19 million per year,

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education and other forms of human development need to be planned for the full 29 million, who enter the main stream of the economy every year! The above is based on the assumption that all the youth should enter the educational system, at different levels, each year. The death rate has not been adjusted in the figure of 29 million per year, as it is not relevant Cumulative unemployment 300mn (estimate) The present emphasis is on higher education, which hardly benefits 7% of the emploment sector. We need to strengthen the P&SE, ESD and VET sectors to benefit the 93% of employment.

India plans law to ban employment of children India's Labour Minister Satyanarayan Jatiya today said the government is planning to enact a new legislation to ban employment of children below age of 14 years in, both, hazardous and non-hazardous professions. He told the Editors' Conference on Social Sector Issues here that this would be a step forward to eliminate child labour Replying to a question, the minister said that the proposed legislation would also be in conformity with the International Labour Organisation, or ILO, Convention No 138. The minister said the government has already increased the number of hazardous occupations from 25 to 64 and nine more occupations would soon be added to the list. The proposed legislation would also cover the domestic labour he added.

The minister said the practice of contract labour has assumed a serious proportion. In some jobs, it has become unavoidable, he said. Jatiya said the ongoing economic reforms have changed the employment scenario in the country. There is an increased competition in the market and better job opportunities for the highly skilled people, he said. He said the second National Labour Commission will have to work with a sense of urgency and make recommendations for adequate response in terms of methods, thinking and conditions of work of 30 million workers in the organised sector. He said the government was equally committed to the welfare of 320 million workers in the unorganised sector. The second Labour Commission will also take care of their problems