Long Questions
1. Give some reasons for unemployment in India.
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Unemployment is a situation when a person actively searches for a job and is unable to find work. Unemployment tells the health of the economy.
National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) defines employment and unemployment on the following activity statuses of an individual, NSSO, an organization under MoSPI – Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation measures India’s unemployment on three approaches:
Daily Status Approach: unemployment status of a person under this approach is measured for each day in a reference week. A person having no gainful work even for one hour in a day is described as unemployed for that day.
Weekly Status Approach: This approach highlights the record of those persons who did not have gainful work or were unemployed even for an hour on any day of the week preceding the date of the survey.
Usual Status Approach: This gives the estimates of those persons who were unemployed or had no gainful work for a major time during the 365 days.
The major causes of unemployment in India are as mentioned below:
Large population.
Lack of vocational skills or low educational levels of the working population.
Labour-intensive sectors suffering from the slowdown in private investment particularly after demonetisation
The low productivity in the agriculture sector plus the lack of alternative opportunities for agricultural workers that makes transition among the three sectors difficult.
legal complexities, Inadequate state support, low infrastructural, financial and market linkages to small businesses making such enterprises unviable with cost and compliance overruns.
Inadequate growth of infrastructure and low investments in the manufacturing sector, hence restricting the employment potential of the secondary sector.
The huge workforce of the country is associated with the informal sector because of a lack of required education or skills, and this data is not captured in employment statistics.
The main cause of structural unemployment is the education provided in schools and colleges are not as per the current requirements of the industries.
Regressive social norms that deter women from taking/continuing employment.
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Some reasons for unemployment in India are:
Unemployment and underemployment of India are caused by more basic structural factors such as lack of capital .........
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