CRISIL Ltd. : Slowdown to re-direct 12 million to farms: CRISIL

January 07, 2014

Mumbai

Slowdown to re-direct 12 million to farms: CRISIL Non-farm jobs set for decline over seven years

CRISIL Research, India's largest independent and integrated research house, in a study estimates incremental non-farm employment will decrease more than 25% to 38 million in FY 2013-19 compared with 52 million seen in FY 2005-12.

That's because fewer jobs are being created with the economy treading a lower-growth path and labour intensity is declining across industry and services. As a consequence, an additional 12 million people will be redirected to the farms in FY 2013-19. During FY 2005-12, there was a decline of 37 million in agriculture employment.

Says Mukesh Agarwal, President, CRISIL Research: "It is desirable to pull more and more people out of agriculture since it is a low-productivity sector, with only a 14% share in GDP, but around 49% share in employment. The old trend of migration from agriculture will reverse with fewer non-farm job opportunities coming in the way of achieving this."

The ability of relatively labour-intensive sectors such as manufacturing to absorb labour has diminished considerably in the face of rising automation and complicated labour laws. The employment elasticity of manufacturing - defined as the percentage increase in employment for every percentage point increase in manufacturing GDP - deteriorated sharply to an average 0.17 in the seven years to FY 2012 from 0.68 in the seven years to FY 2005.

Says Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist, CRISIL: "We expect the Indian economy to expand at slower pace of 6% per year in FY 2013-19 from 8.5% in FY 2005-12. Further, GDP growth is driven increasingly by less labour-intensive services such as financial, real estate and business services (including IT-ITES). For example, in FY 2012, these services, with nearly

19% share in GDP, employed only 3 out of 100 workers in the economy. Employment generation in evolving scenario will therefore pose a severe test for Indian policy makers."

The trends and pattern of employment offers two specific insights to policymakers for accelerating job creation in the Indian economy. First, there is a need to accelerate economic growth by alleviating constraints, especially on corporate and infrastructure investments. Second, appropriate policies will have to complement high growth for facilitating the required job creation in the manufacturing and services.

"Apart from GDP growth, India needs to raise the demand for labour, especially in the manufacturing sector, by simplifying labour laws and debottlenecking labour-intensive industries such as textiles, gems and jewellery and leather. Policymakers should also focus on expanding the health, education, construction sectors. This will not only raise India's growth potential, but also generate a significant number of jobs,'' added Agarwal.

It will also be critical to ramp up the supply of skilled workforce. CRISIL's interactions with industry show that around 70% of graduating engineers are not employable (they need intensive training) because of lack of technical or soft skills.

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