ECONOMIC SURVEY 2007-08 Employment

Strike balance between employment & growth

Posted: 2008-02-29 00:00:28+05:30 IST
Updated: Feb 29, 2008 at 0020 hrs IST

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out that male participation remained higher both in labour and workforce throughout the period between 1983 and 2005. Female participation in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas.

BB Bhattacharya, vice-chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, told FE that the government must take adequate steps to ensure that children of today get the right healthcare and nutrition so that they can contribute to the employment scenario at a later stage.

“Increasing number of unskilled and illiterate adults would not help and therefore spends on health and nutrition must be raised,” he said. In fact the 11th Plan has underlined that the growth in “various sectors of the economy can be achieved smoothly only if supported by appropriate skill development programmes at various levels.”...

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