Media ind to provide maximum jobs in 2006-13

Kolkata, Apr 15: Media and entertainment industry followed by automobile sector in the country will witness a major growth in employment by 2013, says an official report.

''The employment in the agriculture sector is likely to decline by about 10 million in the 11th plan period whereas the non-agro sector will increase by more than five per cent per annum during the period,'' the report points out.

It further explains that the non-agriculture sector is going to absorb the shortfall in agriculture sector along with the new entrants into the labour force.

West Government Department of Labour which has done an extensive study predicts that about 760 million youth are likely to enter the job market by 2020.

It stated the other sectors like manufacturing and capital intensive firms would have to contribute enormously to occupy the new entrants.

Attention would also be given to food processing, textiles, small and medium industries, labour department principal secretary Subesh Das said.

He futher stated that most of the service sector jobs would be in the informal sector and less paying adding that jobs created in the informal sector would be of contractual nature.

According to a statistical report presented by the department in the Employment Summit 2006 during the 11th Plan stated that media industry would experience an annual growth of 18 per cent and employement growth of 27 per cent followed by automobile 15.6 per cent and 20.8 per cent respectively.

The IT-ITES would have a 22 per cent annual industry growth with emloyment growth of 19 per cent.

The retail services which provided maximum emloyment of 25.8 per cent during 1999-2000 would fall drastically to a mere eight per cent during 2006-2013.

UNI