Labour Minister to Launch Software for 5 surveys

The Labour Minister, Santosh Gangwar, will launch the software applications for five all India surveys on February 18, 2021.

Key Facts

• The survey will also include the data of migrant and domestic workers.
• The Labour Minister will also release the instruction manuals with questionnaire for all the five All India Surveys.
• The survey will be conducted by the Labour Bureau.
• These All India five surveys include:

1. on Migrant workers.
2. on Domestic Workers.
3. on Employment Generated by Professionals.
4. on Employment Generated in Transport Sector and
5. Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey.

All-India Survey on Domestic Workers

• The All-India Survey on Domestic Workers will be carried with the objective of estimating the proportion of Domestic Workers in the workforce coming from across India.
• The survey will calculate the percentage distribution of these domestic workers and households that employ them.

All-India Survey on the migrant workers

• Survey on the migrant workers will be carried with the aim of finding the estimated number of migrant workers in India.
• It will also collect the information on their living & working conditions and the socio-economic conditions.

All-India survey on employment generated by professionals

• This survey has essentially two-fold objectives:

1. To estimate the total number of active professionals in the country and
2. To capture the employment generated by these professionals.

All-India survey on employment generated in Transport Sector

It will assess the employment generated in Transport Sector of India.

All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey

This survey will measure the relative change in employment situation in the successive quarters for a sizeable group of non-farm economy. It will cover all the eight important sectors of Indian economy.

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2021