NUMBER OF YOUTH JOB SEEKERS: STATE-WISE DETAILS

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Source: PIB

State-wise details of number of youth job seekers in the age group of 15-29, all of whom may not necessarily be unemployed, registered with the employment exchanges in the country, as on 31-12-2005 are given in the Table below:

 

NUMBER OF YOUTH JOB SEEKERS IN THE AGE-GROUP (15-29 YEARS) AS ON 31^ST DECEMBER 2005

                                                              (In thousands)

Sl.No.	State/Union Territory	Number of youth job seekers
1.	Andhra Pradesh	1802.5
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	18.9
3.	Assam	1315.2
4.	Bihar	1057.3
5.	Chhattisgarh	761.0
6.	Delhi	500.6
7.	Goa	84.2
8.	Gujarat	667.8
9.	Haryana	737.1
10.	Himachal Pradesh	644.1
11.	Jammu & Kashmir	83.6
12.	Jharkhund	891.1
13.	Karnataka	911.7
14.	Kerala	2465.2
15.	Madhya Pradesh	1613.1
16.	Maharashtra	3029.4
17.	Manipur	366.6
18.	Meghalaya	28.7
19.	Mizoram	31.0
20.	Nagaland	37.9
21.	Orissa	629.9
22.	Punjab	318.0
23.	Rajasthan	603.9
24.	Sikkim *	-
25.	Tamilnadu	2429.6
26.	Tripura	312.2
27.	Uttranchal	293.5
28.	Uttar Pradesh	1334.2
29.	West Bengal	4642.1
30.	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	29.8
31.	Chandigarh	39.2
32.	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	4.9
33.	Daman & Diu	5.6
34.	Lakshadweep	8.8
35.	Pondicherry	129.3
	All India	27827.6

* No Employment exchange is functioning in this State.

Totals may not tally due to rounding off.

 

Employment Exchanges sponsor the candidates against the vacancies notified to them by the employers. Employers in turn, shortlist the candidates as per their requirement and issue interview letters to them for making selection.

 

Ministry of Labour & Employment has not received any representation from the States in the recent past to provide unemployment allowance to all unemployed youth. Moreover, the Central Government is not in favour of payment of unemployment allowance to unemployed persons as it could divert substantial resources from development programmes to a non-development activity.  The resource of such a magnitude should better be used for development activities, which would generate substantial avenues of productive employment.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shri Oscar Fernandes (Independent Charge) in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

SMOKING HABITS

Source: PIB

Friday, March 14, 2008

NFHS-3 (2006-07) indicates an increasing prevalence of tobacco consumption in India, with 57% males and 10.8% females reportedly consuming tobacco in some form. The state wise data is annexed. As per the NSSO age-specific rates, regular consumers of tobacco (aged 10 year and above) were 18.65 crore in rural India and 4.93 crore in urban areas in 2004. The state wise Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), 2006 also indicates a decrease in the age of onset of tobacco consumption in the age group of 13-15 years.

Section 4 of the “The Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003” prohibits smoking in a Public Place.

            There are studies to indicate a strong linkage between film personalities and their influence on youth. Since a few film personalities have reportedly been violating the provisions of the Act, by smoking at public places, they have been advised time and again to desist from such action(s).

This information was given by the Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.

KR/SK/271 – RS

 

ANNEXURE

 

Table 13.10 Use of tobacco by state
Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who use any kind of tobacco, who smoke cigarettes or bidis, by state, India, 2005-06
State	Women		Men
	Who use any kind of tobacco	Who smoke cigarettes/bidis	Who use any kind of tobacco	Who smoke cigarettes/bidis
India	10.8	1.4	57.0	32.7
North
Delhi Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Punjab Rajasthan Uttaranchal	3.1 3.3 1.2 5.3 0.8 7.8 5.4	1.4 2.6 1.1 0.7 0.5 3.3 2.7	40.0 46.3 40.0 52.7 33.8 60.4 53.3	26.5 39.8 33.6 40.2 20.9 41.8 36.3
Central
Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh	25.2 16.0 12.1	0.2 0.5 2.4	68.6 68.5 64.3	31.8 40.2 35.5
East
Bihar Jharkhand Orissa West Bengal	8.0 11.6 31.4 15.6	4.9 0.6 0.3 1.3	66.5 61.7 68.8 70.2	29.0 19.4 27.1 50.1
Northeast
Arunachal Pradesh Assam Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Sikkim Tripura	27.2 23.2 39.6 31.9 60.8 28.1 18.7 48.2	3.1 0.6 4.3 1.9 16.1 0.3 5.4 7.9	62.6 72.4 69.5 69.2 83.4 67.9 61.8 76.0	31.4 36.4 37.9 60.0 73.6 39.3 33.3 56.7
West
Goa Gujarat Maharastra	4.4 8.4 10.5	0.2 0.6 0.1	27.8 60.2 48.2	13.6 26.1 17.7
South
Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Tamil Nadu	5.2 4.8 1.8 2.8	0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0	42.8 44.7 43.5 40.1	32.5 27.9 35.8 31.2