The Challenge of Employment in India: Main report
The Challenge of Employment in India: Main report

Author: Arjun Sengupta

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788171887774

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This is the final report of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, which was set up by the Government of India on 20th September 2004 under the chairmanship of Dr. Arjun K. Sengupta to review the status of unorganized/informal sector in India including the nature of enterprises, their size, spread and scope, and magnitude of employment. This was the first step taken towards fulfilling the commitment of the new UPA government to ensure the welfare and well-being of all workers, particularly those in the unorganised sector, who constitute more than 93% of our workforce (likely to be around 502 million by 2012 as the Commission estimates). During the four and a half year of its existence, the Commission examined in detail all the literature and statistical evidence that exists on this sector, held numerous consultations with different stakeholders, such as government officials and policy makers at the Centre and in the States, trade unions and associations of workers representatives, civil society organisations, academics and experts. This final report on `The Challenge of Employment in India: An Informal Economy Perspective` is now presented as an overarching report based on all the earlier work of the Commission, to provide a perspective and strategy for expanding employment in India. The report takes an aggregative perspective of what the Commission calls the central problem of the challenge of employment namely, deficit in its quantity and quality. The comprehensive report also examines the issue of labour market reforms in India. The most important conclusion that follows from the findings of the Commission is that all efforts to improve the quantity and quality of employment in the unorganised sector would require a new approach to economic planning in India. The report offers numerous suggestions and concrete recommendations towards attaining the objective of `maximizing employment` and ensuring inclusive growth.

India's Employment Challenge
India's Employment Challenge

Author: The World Bank,

Publisher: OUP India

Published: 2010-03-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780198063513

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This report assesses developments in the Indian labour market - both formal and informal - and identifies key challenges for the future. It also provides prescriptive outcomes for improving labour market outcomes.

The Challenge of Employment in India: Annexures
The Challenge of Employment in India: Annexures

Author: Arjun Sengupta

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788171887774

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Based on all the earlier work of the National Commission for Enterprises, this overarching report provides a perspective and strategy for expanding employment in India. Set up by the government of India, the goal of the commission was to review the status of unorganized sector in India, including the nature of enterprises, their size, spread and scope, and magnitude of employment. The report takes an aggregative perspective of what the commission calls the central problem of the challenge of employment, namely, deficit in its quantity and quality. With an examination of the issue of labor market reforms in India, the report offers numerous suggestions and concrete recommendations towards attaining the objective of maximizing employment and ensuring inclusive growth.

Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment in Globalizing India
Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment in Globalizing India

Author: Ernesto Noronha

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9811034915

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This book showcases issues of work and employment in contemporary India through a critical lens, serving as a systematic, scholarly and rigorous resource which provides an alternate view to the glowing metanarrative of the subcontinent’s ongoing economic growth in today’s globalized world. Critical approaches ensure that divergent and marginalized voices are highlighted, promoting a more measured perspective of entrenched standpoints. In casting social reality differently, a quest for solutions that reshape current dynamics is triggered. The volume spans five thematic areas, subsuming a range of economic sectors. India is a pre-eminent destination for offshoring, underscoring the relevance of global production networks (Theme 1). Yet, the creation of jobs has not transformed employment patterns in the country but rather accentuated informalization and casualization (Theme 2). Indeed, even India’s ICT-related sectors, perceived as mascots of modernity and vehicles for upward mobility, raise questions about the extent of social upgrading (Theme 3). Nonetheless, these various developments have not been accompanied by collective action – instead, there is growing evidence of diminished pluralistic employment relations strategies (Theme 4). Emergent concerns about work and employment such as gestational surrogacy and expatriate experiences attest to the evolving complexities associated with offshoring (Theme 5).

Higher Education, Employment, and Economic Development in India
Higher Education, Employment, and Economic Development in India

Author: Ram Kumar Mishra

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1000862569

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This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India. It looks at the contours of higher education policies and the labour market dynamics to explore ways to address joblessness and income disparity. The book discusses themes such as quality and access to higher education, the shift towards private investment in higher education, demographic dividend and joblessness among youth, social and income inequalities, labour migration and employment, and the participation of women in the workforce, among others. It provides insights into the challenges relating to employment generation in the industrial sector. It also offers solutions and policy measures to move towards sustainable growth, better employment opportunities in various sectors of industries, and human development. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of education, economics, development studies, sociology, gender studies, and social and economic policy.

Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India
Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India

Author: Sigamani Panneer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9811384215

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This book focuses on the core problems of occupational health, safety and well-being of workers in the informal sector in developing countries, where it accounts for most of the rural labour force and a substantial percentage of the urban labour force. The sector is characterised by low incomes, unstable employment and lack of protection in the form of legislation/policies or trade unions. Though some health and problem-solving measures have been introduced, a focused academic effort to address the problems confronting workers in the unorganised sector, or informal economy, is lacking. The book evaluates workers’ physical and mental health in the context of labour migration, social inclusion of minorities and the differently abled, provisions for women workers, demonetisation, occupational safety for hazardous work, and in connection with various areas of informal work, e.g. agriculture, construction, transportation, sanitation, tanning, the tobacco industry, powerloom industry, surrogacy, and self-employment. It provides a well-rounded description of an analytical reflection on the challenges these workers face and focuses on social policy changes to help alleviate them. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for researchers and students interested in development studies, the sociology of work, health and labour economics, public health, and social work.

Social Sector in India
Social Sector in India

Author: Padmaja Mishra

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1443884839

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As education and health are two major areas of concern in the context of social sector development and human development achievements, this book explores their situation in India. The liberalisation of the Indian economy had a major impact on the growth rate of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with the economic growth of the country jumping from the so-called Hindu growth rate of 3.5% to 8–9% per annum. The literacy rate increased to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% in 1947, while the universalization of elementary education has been achieved to a great extent, and dropout rates have decreased. However, despite considerable progress, exclusions and wide disparities still exist. Combining access with affordability and ensuring quality with good governance and adequate finance are still of great concern. On the health front, significant achievements have also been made, with a number of diseases eradicated or on the verge of elimination. There has been a substantial drop in the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), and life expectancy has increased from 36.7 years in 1951 to 67.14 in 2011. The crude birth rate has been reduced from 40.8 in 1951 to 20.6 in 2012, and the crude death rate from 25.1 to 7.43 in the same period. These achievements are impressive, but at the same time our failures appear even more glaring. As such, this volume brings together contributions from eminent Indian scholars on a range of social issues, including linkages between growth, poverty and the social sector; the efficiency of social sector spending in India; disparity in health statuses; IPR protection in health innovations; pollution and health; the universalisation of elementary education; problems faced at the higher levels of education; and issues of child labour.