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Rajya Sabha
As per the employment and unemployment survey conducted by National Sample Survey Organisation during 1999-2000, number of unemployed persons in the country on usual status basis was around 9 million. Out of these, around 4.4 million belonged to rural areas.
Number of educated unemployed persons in the age group 15 years and above was around 5.5 million during 1999-2000. Government is targeting creation of around 5 crore employment opportunities during the 10th Plan period. The approach to Tenth Plan focuses on providing gainful high quality employment to the additions to the labour force and it is listed as one of the monitorable objectives for the 10th Plan and beyond. The growth strategy of 10th Plan has laid emphasis on rapid growth of those sectors, which are likely to crate high quality employment opportunities and deal with the policy constraints, which discourage growth of employment. Particular attention has been paid to the p9olicy environment influencing a wide range of economic activities, which have a large employment potential.
This information was given by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Shri K. Chandrasekhar Rao in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha .
MLD :LK/labour-75(RS edu unemployed) Aug 11.
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