Skill, Labour, Talent for MSMEs: The Modi government’s job portal Sampark for MSMEs — to employ passed out trainees or students of MSME Technology Centers across India — now has more than 4.73 lakh job seekers, and more than 6,200 recruiters registered on it, according to the data shared at a workshop organised by DPIIT earlier this week. The meeting was chaired by the Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and addressed by MoS for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash and Anupriya Patel on minimizing the compliance burden for firms in India.
However, the quantity of vacancies, as per the portal, at the time of filing this report was only 54 even though open job posting was 10. The total jobseeker count stood at 4,73,719 even though there have been 6,233 recruiters. MSME Sampark was launched by President Ram Nath Kovind on June 27, 2018.
The quantity of jobseekers was up by only 1.49 per cent from 4.66 lakh as of September 7, 2020, even though the recruiter count grew by 8.5 per cent from 5,723 for the duration of the mentioned period. On the other hand, the quantity of candidates placed elevated 2.87X to 29,899 so far from 10,388 in September last year. The number of vacancies last year was 1,051 and 74 open job postings.
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As per the information from the National Sample Survey (NSS) for the duration of 2015-16 cited in the MSME Ministry’s annual report last year, the MSME sector generated 11.10 crore jobs like 3.6 crores in manufacturing, 3.87 crores in trade, 3.62 crores in other services, and .07 lakh in non-captive electrical energy generation and transmission. According to a survey titled What Worries the World published earlier this week by industry investigation firm Ipsos, unemployment and Coronavirus emerged as the greatest worries of urban Indians.
As per the most up-to-date information from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), jobs elevated by 8.5 million for the duration of September led by an boost in salaried jobs from 77.1 million in August to 84.1 million in September. On the other hand, the unemployment price declined from 8.3 per cent in August to 6.9 per cent in September. The labour participation price elevated from 40.5 per cent to 40.7 per cent even though the employment price moved from 37.2 per cent to 37.9 per cent.