Thursday, January 20, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Going by data, SC & STs don’t want a naukri

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/going-by-data-sc-&-sts-dont-want-a-naukri/739854/

Going by data, SC & STs don't want a naukri

Nikhila Gill Posted online: Thu Jan 20 2011, 10:06 hrs
New Delhi : The Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) latest
caste-based employment survey for its 8,250 members collectively
employing 35 lakh persons throws up some disturbing numbers at the
micro level. While scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (SC & STs)
comprise around 25% of the country's population, they comprise around
18-20% of the employees of CII Inc. While that's not too bad a
performance, the numbers are disturbing for individual states like
Maharashtra and Gujarat. While SC/ST comprise 19% of Maharashtra's
population, they comprise just 5% of the employment of CII Inc in the
state. In Gujarat, SC/ST are 22% of the population but just 9% of CII
Inc's employment.

As a result, for the western and southern region, SC/ST form just 16%
of the work force of CII Inc; the figure is 22% for the northern
region and 24% for the eastern region.

So how does CII Inc, or the larger India Inc, get to increase the size
of its SC/ST share or even OBC employee base? We decided to look at
the database of employees at India's largest online job database,
naukri.com, which has nearly 23 million users, or around 60% of the
total online job applicants in the country. The findings are
interesting.

Naukri offers job-seekers the option of giving their caste. This is
important since some firms, such as those in CII Inc, could be looking
specifically for resumes of different caste groups. Among those who
submitted their castes, just 0.67% are STs, 3.7% SCs, and 13.5% OBCs.
So, under 18% of naukri's database comprises SC/ST/OBCs while these
groups account for around two-thirds of India's population. Naturally
then, those looking for employees in these caste groups are going to
have a problem finding enough of them.

Then there is the issue of the qualifications of job applicants and
there is little CII Inc or others can do. If you assume a graduate
degree is required for jobs other than those on the shop-floor, then
what needs to be seen is the proportion of SC/ST/OBCs that have
graduate degrees.

Data from NCAER's household survey (see table) shows that of all the
graduates in the country, just 4.3% are ST, 10% SC and 35.5% OBC as
compared to their share in the population of 8.2%, 16.7% and 41%
respectively. So, if any industry or service unit is looking for
graduation as the minimum qualification, the chances of finding
SC/ST/OBC applicants are much lower than for finding these in upper
caste candidates.


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