Hard to measure job growth in country as data is scarce: Ramesh Abhishek

DIPP Secretary says govt figures take into account only 1.74% of all enterprises in the country

There’s too little data on jobs, which makes it difficult to check for growth in these, says Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).

That is so for both the government and the private sector, he said at the 33rd India Economic Summit, being jointly organised by the World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry.

“Only 1.74 per cent of all enterprises are taken into consideration by the Labour Bureau which measures growth,” he said at a panel discussion, titled Re-engineering Bureaucracy.

He added that close to four in every person employed in the manufacturing sector