‘Hindustan ka dil’ apparently has a lot of people looking for work. With 1.67 lakh registrations by job seekers, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) tops the list of States with the most number of registrations on the National Career Service (NCS) portal launched recently by the Union Government.
The other States with the highest number of job seekers, such as Haryana and Maharashtra, have far fewer numbers compared to M.P. Surprisingly, States such as West Bengal and Odisha have registrations in single digits, while those like Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh have a few hundred registrations. States such as Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Punjab have none.
Touted to be the government’s answer to private online job portals that have been in the business for many years, the NCS was launched to overcome jurisdictional borders that the employment exchanges were faced with, by going online. However, over a month on since its launch, not all data from the 900-odd employment exchanges have been integrated into the portal.
Data migration
The number of registrations on the NCS is inclusive of existing registrations in the employment exchanges that the NCS aimed to modernise. Though the numbers are indicative of trends in the States, it also depends on how many of them have been successful in getting data migrated to the online portal, said Rituparna Chakraborty, President, Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), which is the partner organization for the NCS.
No. of registrations so far: Top five: |
Madhya Pradesh: 1,67,485 |
Harayana: 52, 814 |
Maharashtra: 32, 382 |
Gujarat: 27, 408 |
Jharkhand: 19, 367 |
Where other major States stand: |
Karnataka: 862 |
Kerala: 933 |
Tamil Nadu: 121 |
NCR of Delhi: 2,002 |
West Bengal: 2 |
Uttar Pradesh: 577 |
“The data migration across States is not uniform. It is not any structural issue but things do take time. There are over 900 employment exchanges in the country and not all of them are technologically advanced. It is possible that some States are lagging,” she added.
Long way to go However, technological issues are not the only factors that have affected the number of registrations. Ms. Chakraborty admitted that though registrations have been happening at the employment exchanges, the conversion from registration to employment has not been effective.
“But people in the cities, for example Bengaluru, job opportunities are already there. So their need to go to an employment exchange was lesser anyway,” she explained, adding that it was far too early to measure the effectiveness of the NCS, as it was still very new.
