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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes his Make-in-India manufacturing plan and factory output rebounds, new data indicate two disquieting trends.
One, there is a slowdown in employment in the formal, organised sector (which in any case employs only 12% of India’s labour force), the prime staging ground of Modi’s programme. Data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Indian factories show that more than 400,000 people lost their jobs during the financial year 2012-'13.
Two, this slowdown hides a larger, long-term trend: India Inc is automating and squeezing more output from its workers and so needs fewer of them.
While India had 222,120 operational industrial units during 2012-'13, according to the Annual Survey of Industries, an increase of 2% per cent from 217,554 units in 2011-'12; people engaged in factories declined from 13.43 million to 12.95 million – a drop of 3.6% (480,000).
This cannot be a welcome development, given the focus on employment of Modi’s Make-In-India programme, under which the Prime Minister wants manufacturing to account for at least 25% of GDP from the current level of 16% of GDP.