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Govt portal offered more jobs than applied
The Business Guardian
|April 28, 2024
Vacancies listed on the government’s job portal National Career Service (NCS) displayed an interesting trend. The NCS data shows that in the fiscal year 2023-24 jobs available through the portal were significantly higher than job seekers.
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The number of job-seekers registered through the portal in FY24 is 87,27,900 as against job vacancies of 1,092,4161, as per NCS data.
The data also suggests that in FY24 the number of jobs available on the portal saw a 214 per cent or almost three time jump over the previous year. Job vacancies posted on the portal by employers were 1,092,4161 in FY24 as against 34,81,944 in FY23. However, opposed to this job-seeker's growth was mere 53 per cent from 57,20,748 in FY23 to 87,20,900 in FY24.
A senior government official told ANI that the surge in job vacancies signifies a higher growth in the economy. On March 30, this year Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Mumbai that India may grow 8 percent or more in FY24.
This story is from the April 28, 2024 edition of The Business Guardian.
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