Despite the count of women increasing constantly in work spaces in Delhi, the number of working men stands more than 10 times higher than them.
The National Sample Survey (NSS- 2011-12) showed that the number of employed men stood at 51.66 lakh compared to the number of employed women, which was 5.40 lakh.According to the 68th Round of NSS, prepared by Directorate of Economics and Statistics on employment and unemployment situation in Delhi, a total of 57.60 lakh people were employed in the National Capital while 2.66 lakh were unemployed.
The survey highlighted that of the total employed people, about 56.24 lakh were employed in the urban areas and 0.82 lakh in rural areas.“Major source of earnings of about 22.19 lakh households (52.68 per cent of the total) was from regular wage or salary. Whereas, source of earning of about 15-46 lakh households (36.70 per cent) were from self-employment,” the survey stated.
The survey showed that out of 2.66 lakh unemployed persons, about 2.12 lakh were male and remaining 0.54 lakh were female. Out of 2.66 lakh unemployed persons, about 2.50 lakh (93.84 per cent) were in the category of 15-29 years and remaining persons were in other age groups.
Of the number of unemployed people, about 0.07 lakh (3 per cent of the total) were illiterate. About 0.15 lakh were literate but below primary level, around 0.89 lakh were primary, middle and secondary pass and1.56 lakh were higher secondary and above, survey stated.The unemployment rate in the urban area of the national capital is 40 per thousand persons in labour force as compared to 34 per thousand in urban area at the national level and 42 in Haryana, 41 in Uttar Pradesh, 40 in Himachal Pradesh, 70 in J&K, 64 in Chandigarh and 43 per thousand in the urban area of Andhra Pradesh.
The survey revealed that out of 111.16 lakh persons, out of labour force, about 51.62 lakh (46 per cent) were attending educational institutions, 39.28 lakh (35 per cent) attending domestic duties, 4.36 lakh (4 per cent) were pensioners and about 0.80 lakh (0.72 per cent) were not able to work due to disability.