The Retirement fund body, Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in its latest ‘Net Payroll Data’ report has showed that employment generation in the India’s formal sector almost trebled to touch a 16-month high of 7.16 lakh in December 2018 as compared to 2.37 lakh in the same month a year ago. It also indicted that around 72.32 lakh new subscribers were added to social security schemes of the EPFO from September 2017 to December 2018. This indicates that these many jobs were created in the last 16 months.
However, the payroll data showed that there is a downward revision of 23.44 per cent in the new jobs at to 5.80 lakh created in November 2018, from earlier estimates of 7.16 lakh released by the EPFO last month. It also revised the cumulative job addition data from September 2017 to November 2018 downwards 11.36 per cent to 65.15 lakh from earlier forecast of 73.50 lakh. The sharpest revision was for the month of March 2018 in the latest report which showed net addition of 5,498 subscribers against 55,831 subscribers in the last month's estimate.
According to the data report, March 2018 figure is low due to large number of exits reported in the month of March, in view of it being the closing month of the financial year. During December 2018, the maximum number of 2.17 lakh jobs were created in the 18-21 years age group followed by 2.03 lakh in the 22-25 years age bracket.
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