Government Statement On Employment Exchanges for Minorities

 

Instructions have been issued to the State Governments for ensuring that no discrimination is made against the minority communities in matters of registration and sponsoring of names at Employment Exchanges.

The State Governments have been advised to create monitoring cells to monitor the progress in ... their registrations and placements. They have also been advised to instruct Employment Exchanges under their control to organise mobile registration camps in minority concentration areas.

Numbers of job seekers, all of whom need not necessarily be unemployed, belonging to the minority communities, on the Live Register of the Employment Exchanges as on 31st December, 1994 was of the order of 50 lakh. About 3.07 lakh job seekers were sponsored during 1994 and about 18,300 placements made, as per details below:

State/UT

Registration made during 1994 (000s)

Placement effected during 1994 (000s)

No. on LR at the end of Dec. 1994 (000s)

Submission made during 1994 (000s)

A.P.

31.4

0.5

250.1

47.3

Assam

21.2

0.5

205.1

6.7

Bihar

65.8

1.4

292.9

15.1

Gujarat

5.1

0.8

72.6

6.5

J&K

14.4

0.3

62.1

5.9

Karnataka

26.4

1.7

178.2

15.8

Kerala

77.5

3.4

1312.8

38.4

M.P.

23.7

0.9

127.7

5.9

Maharashtra

47.9

2.1

387.1

26.7

Rajasthan

8.2

0.4

53.4

2.8

Tamil Nadu

50.3

1.3

549.5

33

U.P.

60.9

0.5

238.8

17.3

W. Bengal

24.6

0.3

669.9

7.5

Delhi

8.4

1.5

34

8.6

Lakshadweep

1.1

0.3

8.5

2.5

Others

103

2.9

531.6

67.2

Total

569.9

18.8

4974.3

307.2






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