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Employment
Status
·
On August
20, 2008
Assocham
placement
pattern
(APP) study
put that in
wake of the
huge private
and
government
investments
lined up in
the
infrastructure
projects,
pace of
employment
generation
in the
sector has
risen
significantly
as evident
from a share
of 12 per
cent in the
total
employment
opportunities
generated in
the first
three months
of the
fiscal,
according to
an.
Mission
IAS’2009
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The APP
study - Job
trends in
infrastructure
sector -
has also
revealed
that the
sector
comprising
aviation,
construction,
energy, core
infrastructure
and metals &
mining, have
jointly
contributed
a
significant
share of 12
per cent to
the job
vacancies
posted in
first
quarter of
this fiscal.
·
The study
comprised a
sample size
of total
1,05,638
jobs
generated,
spreading
over 55
cities
categorised
in three
tiers
according to
the size,
population
and other
demographic
characteristics.
·
The
sector
created a
12,580 job
opportunities
out of the
total sample
size between
April-June’08.
·
A break up
shows that
in the
public
sector
employment
in
electricity,
gas and
water has
dropped from
9.35 lakh
persons in
2001 to 8.65
lakh in
2005.
Similarly,
in
construction
the figure
falls from
10.81 lakh
in 2001 to
9.11 lakh in
2005.
·
In private
organised
sector,
figures for
employment
in
electricity,
gas and
water has
dropped from
0.52 lakh in
2001 to 0.49
lakh in
2005.
Similarly,
in
construction
the figure
falls from
0.57 lakh in
2001 to 0.49
lakh in
2005.
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The
construction
segment had
a maximum
share of
24.32 per
cent in the
total
employment
generation
in the
infrastructure
sector.
·
Energy, one
of the key
drivers of
the
infrastructure
sector, had
a share of
18.80 per
cent with
the number
of job
openings in
the segment
totalling to
2,365.
·
Core
infrastructure
has been the
least
contributing
segment in
terms of the
number of
jobs
generated in
the quarter.
The
increased
cost of
finance
might have
taken its
toll on the
segment with
1,857 newly
created jobs
and a share
of 14.76 per
cent
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