NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya, despite acknowledging creation of “good jobs” in India remains a big challenge, has said that India’s economic growth rate is likely to be 7.5 percent for the current financial year. He said ‘For the current fiscal year of 2017-18, I expect that we will be back to at least 7.5 percent and as you get towards the last quarter of the year probably we will begin to touch 8 percent, but the average for the year would be about 7.5 percent.’
Panagariya said he does not agree with the classification in some sections of the media that India's economic growth is a jobless growth. He also said it is unfortunate that India's better performing sectors such as automobile, auto parts, engineering goods, petroleum refinery, pharmaceuticals and IT enabled services, are not very employment-intensive. He added that all these sectors are either very capital intensive or skill labour intensive. There is a big need for good jobs at the lower, semi-skilled level, thus there is a big challenge. He also said that there is not enough creation of good jobs that pay good wages.
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman further said that jobs are being created, but certainly good jobs which pay good wages, those have not been very successful with and that is where the big challenge lies. That also requires some reconfiguration of the structure of manufacturing towards more labour intensive sectors like clothing, footwear and food processing. He noted that China, which is the major exporter of all these products, is experiencing very high wages and is already quitting some of the space in these labour intensive sectors and he added that it is a good time for India to move into those sectors.
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