Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

S. Thangamayan ¹, R. Premalatha ¹, S. N. Sugumar ¹, S. Chandrachud ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, (Deemed to be University) Chennai, IN

Abstract

Employment has featured as an important item in the development agenda in India. Approaches to the subject have, however, varied in different periods during the last over 50 years. In the initial years of development planning, unemployment was not expected to emerge as a major problem. Yet care was taken to see that employment of a reasonable magnitude is generated in the development process to productively employ the growing labour force. A reasonably high rate of economic growth combined with an emphasis on labour intensive sectors like the small scale industry was envisaged to achieve this goal.

To analyze the trend and to estimate the growth rates of the employment in different organized sectors of India, simple linear regression model and semi-log linear regression model have been fitted respectively to the data on the organized sector for the periods 1990-91 to 2009-10. The estimated value of the regression co-efficient, their standard error and other important results are given. Employment in mining and quarrying sector increased by 0.072 lakh persons per year. The manufacturing sector’s employment increased by 0.389 lakh persons annually.

Keywords

Employment, Economic Development, Manufacturing Sector.

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M. Ramesh ¹, S. Saravanan ¹, S. N. Sugumar ¹, K. Kalaiselvi ², E. Rajarethinam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, (Deemed to be University) Chennai, IN
2 Department of Commerce, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, (Deemed to be University) Chennai, IN

Abstract

Human resource development has been acknowledged to be a key factor in the process of economic growth, as the character and pace of economic and social development of any country are ultimately determined not by its capital of its material resources but by human resources. The abundant physical resources alone cannot benefit the growth of the country without human resources component, which transforms physical resources into productive resources. Human resource should also be looked after properly and continuously regarding various aspects like development and economic, social and psychological aspects. Public health facilities are allocated on the basis of primary health centers dispensaries through which preventive and primitive care is provided. India spends about 4.9 per cent of its GDP on health with the share of public expenditure fixed at 0.9 per cent compared to private is 4 per cent of private expenditure. The private healthcare is much larger and widespread than public health services. The improvement people in the health status been one of the major thrust areas for the social development programs of the country. Over the last five decades, India has built up vast health infrastructure and manpower at primary, secondary and tertiary care in government, voluntary and private sectors.

Keywords

Human Development, Health Care, Communicable Diseases, Health Status, Life Expectancy, Nutrition and Health Expenditures.

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