Christians top the unemployment list

Christians top the unemployment list


Christians most unemployed in India

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By IBNlive.com
Thursday May 10, 12:41 AM New Delhi: Even as UPA goes on pushing Muslim’s unemployment issue, a survey reveals that it is the Christians community that has the highest rate of unemployed youth in the country. The unemployment rate is highest among Christians who are followed by Sikhs, said the government survey. Minister of state for Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes quoted a census of 2004-05 said in the Rajya Sabha which shows that in rural and urban areas, the percentage of unemployed Christians is 4.4 and 8.6 respectively while the figure for Sikhs stands at 3.4 and 4.7 per cent. Muslims stand third in the list with their unemployment rate being 2.3 per cent in the rural areas whereas the Hindus are better off among the religious groups in the rural sector with unemployment rate at as low as 1.5 percent. In the urban areas, however they lag behind their Muslims counterparts. For Hindus it is 4.4 per cent against 4.1 per cent in Muslims community. Fernandes said estimates of employment and unemployment among major religious groups in the country are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Organisation. Giving details of the programmes to create job opportunities for the needy, the minister said the government has launched Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna, Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojna, Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojna, Rural Employment Generation Programme and various others. With inputs from PTI