Unemployment in India: Government programmes for inclusive growth of employment

The difficulties of the twenty-first century include poverty, economic growth, education, health, employment, population expansion, and the unemployment issue. Most developed and emerging nations still deal with these issues, but India's situation is extremely concerning. In the meantime, India, one of the most populous nations in the world, struggles to compete with other nations. In every area, there have been additional battles to maintain progress after a nation gains independence. Currently, we are ranked fifth among the world's greatest economies. On the other hand, employment, looking at sector-wise percentages, also varied from decade to decade and sector to sector. Compared over a period of time, the primary sector is one of the major employment sources of the Indian population, and it has also made a major contribution to India's GDP. But nowadays, employment opportunities are drastically declining in the primary sector as well as contribution to national income. The current employment positions and participation rate are not equal as compared to earlier. Currently, we are in the 21st century and a number of schemes and policies are being implemented for development, employment and empowerment. Its impact is some percentage of reducing traditional employment and shifting from the primary sector to modern growing employment with the influence of urbanization increasing, education, skill and employment opportunities in other sector. Since India's independence, reducing poverty and fostering wage employment have been two of the country's top development priorities. Rural development as an integrated concept of growth and poverty elimination has been of paramount concern in all subsequent five-year plans. However, India’s unemployment problem involves skill gaps, job creation, lagging growth and underemployment is still present in every sector at different rates. In the meanwhile, government inclusive employment programmes and policy schemes have been active in rural as well as urban areas, aiming at widespread opportunities to enhance skills through programmes for reducing unemployment. Against this backdrop, we have made an effort to study the current position of the Indian economy and poverty with sectoral-wise contribution to national income, employment, unemployment rate and the government's latest majors for reducing the unemployment. And the inclusive programmes for sustainable development of livelihoods in rural as well as urban employment and development goals. In this study, it was used as per the availability of secondary level information.