Job creation in formal sector touches 17-month high of 8.96 lakh in January: EPFO

25 Mar 2019 Evaluate

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 touched a 17-month high of 8.96 lakh in January 2019 as compared to 3.87 lakh in the same month a year ago. It added that a net of 2,75,609 jobs were created in September 2017. Besides, it showed that, between September 2017 to January 2019, around 76.48 lakh new subscribers were added to social security schemes of the EPFO. This indicates that these many jobs were created in the last 17 months.

However, the EPFO revised its payroll data for December 2018 downwards by 1.8 percent to 7.03 lakh against the earlier estimate of 7.16 lakh released last month. It also revised the cumulative job addition data for the September 2017-December 2018 period downwards 6.6 percent to 67.52 lakh, from the earlier forecast of 72.32 lakh. The sharpest revision was for March 2018 in the latest report which showed contraction or exit of 29,023 members from the EPFO subscriptions whereas last month's estimated addition of 5,498 members.

According to the report, the March 2018 figure was negative due to large number of exits reported in March, in view of it being the closing month of the financial year. During January 2019, the highest number of 2.44 lakh jobs were created in the 22-25 years age group, followed by 2.24 lakh in the 18-21 years age bracket.

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