Do you think that there is a need for a national urban employment scheme for better development in the country? Analyse (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· A Parliamentary committee has recommended the institution of an urban employment scheme at the national level.
· The pressing need for an urban employment programme should have been obvious to the central government from the very start of the brutal and unplanned national.
· Surveys conducted by private agencies like the CMIE had already indicated truly dramatic job losses in urban India over the past year, accounting for around 65 per cent of the estimated job losses of nearly 20 million jobs.
· This is confirmed by the significant increase in open unemployment rates in urban areas, which have spiralled upwards well beyond the historical highs that were so widely discussed from in the 2017-18 labour force survey.
· The earnings of self-employed declined even more, going down by 20 per cent for men and 10 per cent for women, from their already abysmally low levels.
· Some State governments have attempted to bring in urban employment schemes on their own, but they are so cash-strapped especially after the additional pandemic-related expenditures that were thrust on them by the insufficient spending by the Centre .
· Despite that, the efforts by the State governments of Kerala, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, suggest that there are initiatives that could be built upon and improved.
ANIL KUMAR RAM 3 years
Please review
IAS Parliament 3 years
Try to include about health aspect. Keep writing.
Abdul hakkim 3 years
Please review mam /sir
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IAS Parliament 3 years
Try to add more reasons to support the need for the scheme. Keep Writing.
