Almost 200K jobs vacant in 9 sectors in first quarter, says survey

Vacancies were caused by resignation, retirement and lack of available skilled workers

Lack of skilled labour, among other factors, led to 187,062 vacancies in nine sectors during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, showed the new revamped quarterly employment survey (QES). This accounted for a little over 0.6 per cent of the total jobs given by these establishments till April-June 2021-22.

The nine sectors — manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurants, IT/BPOs and financial services — employed 30.8 million people.

Manufacturing accounted for more than half of these vacancies as there were 99,429 jobs, which were to be filled up during the period. As many as 4.5 per cent