There has been a 33.6% drop in the number of job seekers inRajasthanregistering themselves on government of India’s National Career Service (NCS) portal.
In 2022-23, over 1.82 lakh people in the state registered on the NCS portal compared to 2.75 lakh in 2021-22, according to the ministry of labour and EMPLOYMENT data.
It is believed that many who lost their jobs during Covid pandemic had registered themselves on the portal in 2021-22.
In 2018-19, 1.97 lakh job seekers had registered themselves on the NCS portal, 73,408 in 2019-20 and 2.01 lakh in 2020-21, informed minister of state for labour and employment Rameswar Teli while replying to an unstarred question on April 3.