New Delhi: Financial services, information technology, consumer goods, retail and real estate sectors have witnessed the maximum decline in the creation of new jobs because of the economic slowdown, a leading business chamber has said.
The Assocham Research Bureau, which tracked job vacancy data in 30 sectors to analyse the creation of new jobs in the economy, found that the “employment outlook of India has come under severe strain”.
“The overall slowdown in the economy has seriously impacted the job creation capacity of certain industrials sectors. Continuation of this trend for a longer term may wash away the benefits generated from the four years of above 8 per cent growth,” it noted.
The decline in creation of jobs in the previously booming sectors have been between 0.1 to 6.5 per cent in both the second and third quarter this calendar year, with information technology and financial services being the worst-hit.
Manufacturing, engineering, construction and aviation have witnessed declining employment trend from the third quarter.
The IT sector accounted for 9 per cent of new jobs in the first quarter, but this share fell drastically to 2.3 per cent in the next quarter from April to June and further declined to 2.09 per cent in the third quarter.
“Near about 60 per cent revenues of the IT sector comes from US clients and 30 per cent revenues were derived from the financial sector which is under severe crisis. This has resulted into grave pressure on the topline as well as bottomline of the IT companies,” said the Assocham study.
Similarly, the financial sector's share dropped from seven to 5 per cent in the second quarter and then falling to 2 per cent in the third quarter.
The real estate sector, which was generating 3 per cent of the new jobs in first quarter, dipped to 1.68 per cent in the next quarter and 1.22 per cent in the July to September period.
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