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PANAJI
The Labour Commissioner has asked all the employers to furnish details about current employees in a prescribed manner so that the government has information about employed and unemployed persons in the State.
A notice has been issued to all the employers by the Labour Commissioner, wherein the employers are told to visit a website (http://www.geleservices.com/GEL/EmployerDataUpload.aspx) and download the ‘Employee Data Format’ and ‘Aadhaar Consent Format’.
Further, the employers are told to upload the documents on the website (employee data in excel format and Aadhaar Consent Format in pdf) on or before March 7, 2018.
Once the employers do so, the State government will have Aadhaar-linked data about persons employed in the private sector. This will help the government in cross-checking the data thus obtained with the data with the employment exchange and finally arrive at the exact details and count of unemployed persons.
The need for this exercise was felt because often people, who are employed in private sector, register themselves as jobseekers at the employment exchange. They keep themselves registered until they get a government job.
Due to this, State government is not in position to know the exact count of unemployed people. This causes two problems. One, it makes it near impossible for the government to come out with schemes to aid the genuinely unemployed persons. Two, it also inflates the unemployment percentage making Goa fare poorly in several national level surveys.
Earlier in February, Labour and Revenue Minister, Rohan Khaunte, had said that the State government would come out with an Aadhaar number liked system to have accurate data about unemployed youth. The notice sent by the Labour Commissioner is in this regard only.
