Friday, March 12, 2010

Indian Job Scenario To Improve, Says Survey

The Indian job scenario seems to be improving especially in the export and in the IT/BPO sector. Latest results as revealed out of a fast employment survey, conducted by the Employment and the Labor ministry showed a noticeable improvement in the entire scenario during October to December 2009. This was the time when the BPO sector alone provided more than 4.87 lakh of new jobs thereby opening more prospects in this coming year.

This survey was also conducted so as to learn about the effects of economic downturn on the employment opportunities in the country. The 8 sectors that were put under survey included leather, gems and jewelry, automobiles, leather, metals and textiles, information technology, transport, power loom and handloom.

The survey also suggested that the overall employment also improved by almost 6.38 lakhs during December 2009 and September 2009. This growth has been noticed due to the substantial increase in the employment in BPO/IT sector. In the BPO/IT sector it hired more than 5.70 lakh people during the October-December, 2009.

According to the published report, the estimated employment in the above mentioned sectors had been experienced to get a net addition of more than 7.90 lakh since the month of September 2008. As per the survey findings, it was showed that most employment gain in the month of December 2009 was registered in the exporting of units. The export units added over 5.80 lakhs of jobs. On the other hand, the It/BPO alone has added 4.87 lakh of jobs.

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