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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Delivering the second Ambirajan Memorial Lecture on the ``public policies for job-led economic growth'' here, Dr. Swaminathan said widespread rural unemployment and the resultant endemic hunger could threaten peace and human security in the country. The Tenth Plan had set itself a target of creating 50 million new jobs or 10 million jobs a year. In India, agriculture provided livelihood to nearly 70 per cent of the population and was thus the backbone of the livelihood security system. An advance in this sector was India' best safety net against hunger and poverty. Agriculture and allied operations, though unacknowledged, remained the biggest private sector enterprise of the country as 25 per cent of the world's farmers were in India. So the major challenge related to achieving a paradigm shift from a jobless growth to a ``job-led growth' and moving from unskilled labour to skilled work, particularly in rural populations, especially among women. In today's knowledge and information age, technological, digital, genetic and gender divides were increasing. ``We need to make our agriculture, industry and the service sectors more knowledge-intensive... and in farming foster an ever-green revolution, so that the per acre productivity is enhanced perpetually, without affecting the environment. ``We should introduce a new deal for the self-employed as the present public policies essential for self-employment are yet to be developed. The new deal should focus on markets, technology, training and techno-infrastructure. Universities should establish placement bureaus for self employment.'' Delivering the lecture at the M.O.P. Vaishnav College, Dr. Swaminathan told the students about tremendous self-employment opportunities for women. The self-employed could generate income-earning opportunities in water and energy management, health care and medicinal plants growth, through agriculture and related services such as animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry and agro and food processing. The meeting was organised by the Public Expenditure Round Table, which also released two Tamil pamphlets: one on energy conservation methods and the other on ``some dimensions of public expenditure''. According to the PERT's spokespersons, K. Venkataraman and B.S. Raghavan, the idea was to reach out to the rural audiences, to show the importance of conserving energy (which they equated with augmentation of capacity at nil cost) and for raising public awareness how public finance was managed in the country.
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