Govt Comparing Data On Underdeveloped Districts

Mumbai: The Union Government will recur to specific policy intervention for districts with chronic unemployment and industrial underdevelopment. Dr Kumar said the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is collating the data on these districts. It would be based on 16 reports of the Planning Commission, some of which date back to the 1960s. There will be intervention from the Government to solve problems like law and order, connectivity, availability of raw material, and power supply. Dr Kumar added that the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and Bharat Nirman initiative wll be focussed in these districts. They required blue collar jobs and industrial development in the hinterland, all of which will come from industrial and manufacturing activity. Of the global population below 24 years of age, about 20 per cent stays in India but a majority of them are unemployable.