BENGALURU: The much anticipated ‘Make in India’ is expected draw the eyes of international investors to setup business in India to create huge employment for skilled and non-skilled workers. But the data of Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) shows that ‘Make in India’ might not prove as a panacea to curb the growing rate of unemployment, as reported by ET.
As per the census of SECC 2011 large portion of the nation are still poor and more than half of the population still live with uncertain daily wages. Tamil Nadu, the second most industrialized state after Gujarat, which is among the top five richest states and one of the industry friendly states in India. However the two-third of the population who still survive in the income earned as casual labor. The unemployed population in state is very keen to work but state government has failed create adequate jobs. In 2013-14, more than 63 lakh households demanded jobs under the central rural job guarantee program in Tamil Nadu, according to the MGNREGA public data portal. That is 95 percent of rural households who live as casual workers.
Kerala which tops in Human Development Index (HDI) and known for high literacy rate barely has any manufacturing industries. More than one/third of state’s population has regular work and half of its population earns from informal sector. People from other states like North-East, Bengal, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are getting hired in services sectors and as construction laborers.
Bihar, which is one among the economically backward states, undoubtedly ranks top with highest number of casual and manual workers who constitute 70 percent of the total population. These stats provided by SECC, prove challenging to the government to create jobs to at least half of the manual and casual labor population of the country under ‘Make in India’ initiative.
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