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India asks ILO to concentrate on employment generation

In a bid to ensure that globalisation is not at the cost of employment, India on Wednesday asked the International Labour Organisation to concentrate on job generation and skill upgradation.

Addressing the 13th Asian Regional Meeting of the ILO in Bangkok, Labour Minister, Satyanarayan Jatiya, said that in an era of globalisation, the prevailing situation warranted exploring of new opportunities of employment generation and making massive efforts for the training of unskilled workers.

To ensure this, resources would be required in labour intensive countries, which would need the co-operation and assistance from developed countries and international bodies, he said and asked the ILO to take an important initiative in this direction.

He said skill upgradation would generate favourable conditions for decent work, which presently did not exist in developing countries due to poverty, under-employment, lack of advanced technology and value-added training and barriers to markets.

Jatiya said that in India out of 406 million strong labour force, employment was available to only 397 million and one-fourth of the employed were still living below poverty line.

He said that besides generating employment, an extensive programme for improving labour market information, vocational guidance and skill training were required to bridge the existing deficits.

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