New Delhi : The unemployment rate is lowest among the scheduled cast women in cities at 4.5 per cent, while scheduled tribe women were better placed in villages with unemployment rate 1.1 per cent as per a survey.
“Among females in urban areas, unemployment rate was the highest among ‘others’ category (6.3 per cent), it was 4.8 per cent among ST, 4.7 per cent among OBC and 4.5 per cent among SC,” as per a report based on National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) survey. The report, ‘Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Social Groups in India’, is based on the survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012.
The survey was spread over 12,737 first stage units (7,469 villages and 5,268 urban blocks) covering 1,01,724 households (59,700 in rural areas and 42,024 in urban areas) and enumerating 4,56,999 persons (2,80,763 in rural areas and 1,76,236 in urban areas), reports PTI.
Among females in rural areas, unemployment rate was 2.4 per cent among others category, 1.7 per cent among OBC, 1.4 per cent among SCs and 1.1 per cent among STs. The unemployment rate for males was 2 per cent for SCs, 1.7 per cent for OBCs, 1.8 per cent for others and 1.3 per cent among STs.
In urban areas, unemployment rate among males was the highest for ST and others category (nearly 3.4 per cent each), 3.2 per cent among SC and 2.5 per cent among OBC category.
As per the study among rural persons of age 18 years and above registered in MGNREG job cards, 50.5 per cent got work in MGNERG work, 18.8 per cent sought but did not get MGNREG works and 30.5 per cent did not seek work in MGNERG work.
The proportion of persons who got work in MGNREG was the highest among SC (55.6 per cent), followed by ST (50.5 per cent), OBC (49.1 per cent) and was the lowest among others category (45.5 per cent).
The proportion of persons who sought but did not get work under MGNREG was the highest for others category of persons (21.9 per cent) and it was the lowest among OBC (16.5 per cent).
