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MEASURES OF
UNEMPLOYMENT
Presented by:-
VAIBHAV SINHA
BBA(M2)
INTRODUCTION
 Unemployment means a person willing to work but unable to find
a qualified job. Our country is facing many problems but one of
the serious problem is of unemployment. Many graduates,
doctors, engineers, scientist are unemployed or working
underemployed. Due to unemployment we are wasting our
country’s human resource.
*Every 6th person in the world is an Indian and every 3rd poor
person in the world is also an Indian.
*With Increase in the number of unemployed persons, Poverty
expands.
*The problems of unemployment and poverty in India is Very
High which demands an immediate solution.
*Till 5th Five Year Plan, no serious efforts were taken to solve the
unemployment problem.
*It was assumed that the gains of economic growth would
percolate downwards and the inequalities would decline and
problems of poverty and unemployment would get solved
automatically.
Contd…
 But after the Fifth Five Year Plan,
removal of unemployment became as one
of the important Objectives of economic
planning in all five year plans.
*In less developed countries economic
growth generally benefits the elite groups
and, as a result, economic Inequality
grow.
*India is facing the same problem of
Inequalities.
REASONS OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN
INDIA
 There are employment opportunities in India, but the rising
population problem creates the unemployment. If the
population grows in the same rate the next generation will face
more problems of unemployment. If there is vacancy for 1
position 100 or 1000 apply for the position and only one gets the
job and others remain unemployed.
*Inflation
*Indians don’t take jobs which are below their grades. Many
find it difficult to work at the below qualification level job.
*Many big industries look for the skilled candidates only, for
their company.
*Many Employers give preference to the experienced
candidates only and not the fresher.
*Not enough or new jobs: The number of new government jobs
is decreasing every year. Government is not able to create
enough jobs keeping in mind the Indian population.
Contd…
 Slow business expansion
 Advanced Technology: Earlier for a task hundreds or
thousand people were required to do a work but now
due to the advanced technology only one person can
do many people’s work. With the advanced
technology companies are hiring few persons to
operate the machine. Give a command on computer
and the work is done this has cut off the employment
of many.
*Corruption: In Government sector and in some
private sector people get the job by giving the bribe.
Even though the candidate is not that qualified but if
he/she gives the bribe he/she gets the job. So to get a
government job give a bribe. The qualified candidate
remains unemployed as no money to give the bribe.
POLICIES TO REDUCE
UNEMPLOYMENT
The MGNREGA ( Mahatma Gandhi
National rural employment Guarantee Act
)is designed to provide job guarantee for at
least 100 days in rural parts of the country.
through this scheme , all the adult members
( at least 18 years of age) of the any family
in rural part of the country are given non-
skilled work.
The Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Non-
urban Career Assurance Act (MGNREGA)
is an Indian job guarantee program,
presented by regulation on Aug 25, 2005.
The Indian Central Govt. Expenditure for
program is about INR40, 000crs. (around
US$7.24 billion) in financial year of 2010–
11.
Contd…
Prime Minister’s Employment
Generation Programme (PMEGP)
scheme was announced by Hon’ble Prime
Minister of India on 15th August, 2008 in
his address from Red Fort.
The main aim of this policy is to:-
1. To generate continuous and sustainable
employment opportunities in Rural and
Urban areas of the country.
2. To provide continuous and sustainable
employment to a large segment of
traditional and prospective artisans, rural
and urban unemployed youth in the
country through setting up of micro
enterprises.
3. To facilitate participation of financial
institutions for higher credit flow to micro
sector.
Contd…
It is an initiative launched by
the Government of India to provide
sustainable income to poor people living
in rural areas of the country. The
scheme was launched on April 1, 1999.
The SGSY aims at providing self-
employment to villagers through the
establishment of self-help groups. Activity
clusters are established based on the
aptitude and skill of the people which are
nurtured to their maximum potential. Funds
are provided by NGOs, banks and financial
institutions.
Since its inception, over 2.25 million Self-
help groups have been established with an
investment of Rs. 14,403crs, profiting over
6.697 million people.
Contd…
The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar
Yojana (SJSRY) was launched on
01.12.1997 after subsuming the earlier
three schemes for urban poverty
alleviation, namely Nehru Rozgar
Yojana (NRY), Urban Basic Services
for the Poor (UBSP), and Prime
Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty
Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP).
The key objective of the Scheme is to
provide gainful employment to the
urban unemployed or underemployed
through the setting up of self-
employment ventures or provision of
wage employment.
MEASURES OF UNEMPLOYMENT