In order to ascertain the Unemployment rate in Goa, the government has commenced a survey to find out how manyGoansand non-Goans have been employed in various sectors in the state.
The survey, which is expected to go on for a month, is being carried out by officials of the department of labour and EMPLOYMENT, who will visit industries, hotels, showrooms, supermarkets, general stores, pharmacies, garment stores, hospitals, clinics, and even kiosks.
In its annual report for 2020-21, theUnion ministry of statisticsand programme implementation (MoSPI) had said that Goa had the third highest joblessness rate in the country during that period.
Data from the independent think tank, Centre for Monitoring of Indian economy (CMIE), in May revealed that approximately nine lakh of Goa’s Population is in the employable age bracket of 20-59 years, which would suggest that around 1.4 lakh Goans remain unemployed. One of the main reasons for unemployment is the inability to attract new industrial units to the state, the data had indicated.