GOVERNMENT POLICIES & EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

• Government has taken many initiatives to generate acceptable employment, ensuring at least minimal safety and job satisfaction. Since independence, the Union and State Governments have played an important role in generating employment or creating opportunities for employment generation. Their efforts can be broadly categorized into two aspects:

• Government provides 'Direct Employment by employing people in various departments for administrative purposes. It also runs industries, hotels, and transport companies, and hence provides employment directly to workers.
• With increase in output of goods and services of government enterprises, private enterprises providing raw material to government enterprises will also raise their output. As a result, the number of employment opportunities in the economy will increase. This increase in employment is known as 'Indirect Employment by the government. 

Employment Generation Programmes

• The government has also implemented a number of “Employment Generation Programmes” like the National Rural Employment Guarantee, Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana, Swaran Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana, etc.

• Government aims to alleviate poverty through such employment programs.

• All these programs aim at providing employment, services in primary health, education, rural shelter, etc.
• These programmes also aim to assist people in buying income and employment generating assets, developing community assets and construction of houses and sanitation.