Professional bodies including those representing lawyers, chartered accountants and architects, among others, as well as gig economy companies such as Ola and Uber will have to soon start filing data on jobs created.
The government is set to notify a framework for collating this information, a senior government official told ET, adding that this had been decided at a highlevel meeting recently.
“A notification in this regard is expected soon,” he said.
The government has identified 23 organisations that will be directed to share the number of professionals registered. This will eventually include service providers such as Ola and Uber that recruit drivers.
Experts have long raised concerns over the lack of quality jobs data in the country.
“There is consensus within the government that job numbers from professional bodies also need to be included in India’s overall job data,” the official said.
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Household and enterprise surveys have been so far used to estimate employment.
The data will be collated by the labour bureau under the ministry of labour and employment or the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, the official said.
The government think tank Niti Aayog had earlier attempted to tap this information through its data analytics cell, but this didn’t turn out as expected because of apparent reluctance on the part of the organisations to participate.
Source: Economic Times
