Underlining unemployment as the country's biggest problem, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed the need for policy measures to create jobs in rural areas and check migration to cities for employment. He also called for a detailed study to find out ways to skill people in tribal, agriculture and rural sectors and pointed out that skilled manpower was the biggest requirement in the country.
The minister further noted that the country's MSME sector has huge potential to create new job opportunities and there is a need to identify the areas where people can be skilled and given jobs. He highlighted several facts and figures like country's total 29 per cent growth/GDP comes from MSME sector, 49 per cent export is from MSME sector, till now 11 crore employment opportunities have been created.
Besides, Nitin Gadkari asked big companies across sectors to run skill development programmes and hire people according to their skills and suggested some ideas that can help create jobs in the country. He also said that there is need to find out ways to provide people job opportunities in their villages so they don't need to leave their homes.
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