Industrialisation For Employment And Growth In India

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

Contributed papers.

Surinder Kumar Goyal, b. 1933, Indian industrial economist; papers presented at the National Conference on Industrial Development and Economic Policy Issues, held at New Delhi during 27-28 June 2008.

Kosaraju Leela Krishna, b. 1935, Indian economist; contributed articles.

1. Introduction 2. Growth Rate of Employment in Indian Industrial Sectors 3. Evolution of Extended Industrial Process in the Country 4. Objective of the Study 5. Witnessing of Industrial Sickness Creating Unemployment Condition 6. Restructuring and Characterising the Structural Changes Accompanied With Industrialisation 7. Conclusion and Suggestion Bibliography Index

The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The book identifies the major constraints that result in limited demand for labour in the organised manufacturing sector. Beyond technological aspects, skill shortage is an important factor, resulting in sluggish labour absorption. Further, the labour market laws are not necessarily the root cause of sluggish employment growth in the organised manufacturing sector. The development of technologies that are appropriate for labour surplus countries like India is instrumental to employment creation. Though innovation is generally assumed to be capital-intensive in nature, the book argues that innovation nevertheless has a positive effect on employment in absolute terms. Lastly, the main policy issues are highlighted in terms of the priority that should be assigned to industries which can contribute to employment growth and skill formation for improving the employability of the available labour force, and to which innovations should be pursued, with a specific focus on pro-poor growth objectives.