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PANAJI
Employment figures provided by the state government on Thursday disclose that around 8.5 per cent of Goa’s total population is presently registered with the Employment Exchange.
In his reply, Labour Minister Rohan Khaunte explains that “merely registering in Employment Exchange does not mean that the registrants are unemployed, as the Regional Employment Exchange has facilities for registration for both persons employed as well as unemployed. It is therefore not known whether all the registrants are unemployed.”
Yet, the number of candidates and job-seekers registered till date presently stands at 1,24,582, of which 65,811 are men and 58,771 are women.
Khaunte in his reply to Tivim MLA Nilkanth Halarnkar has further said that each year between 18-20,000 persons register themselves with the Employment Exchange.
In another reply to Taleigao MLA Jennifer Monserrate, the minister informed the House that in 2017, a total of 1,098 persons were provided government employment and 264 were employed in private sector. This is a considerable fall from 2016 when 1,361 persons were provided government employment and 346 were employed in the private sector.
In response to a separate question tabled by Halarnkar, Khaunte informed that 664 trained teachers with Diploma in Education, 2,465 teachers with Bachelors in Education, 22 teachers with Masters in Education and 290 teachers with Bachelors in Physical Education are also registered with the Employment Exchange.
