Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - India (Ratification: 1959)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee noted with interest the development of the network of employment offices, the numbers of which have increased from 584 in June 1981 to 802 in May 1985. It also noted that the question of the extension of rural employment offices was linked up with the strategy to promote self-employment during the Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85). Please provide any available information on the results of the Plan in this field and, more generally, on new developments in the organisation of a network of employment offices, indicating, if possible, the extent to which the needs of employers and workers in rural areas are satisfied.

Article 6. 1. Please provide information on the implementation by the State Governments of the recommendations of the Mathew Report accepted by the Government concerning, firstly, the possibility given to employment offices to verify the vocational qualifications of jobseekers and, secondly, the improvement of public relations and the public image of the employment service.

2. Please provide information on the action intended to encourage the self-employment of young persons, and particularly of young university graduates, and on the extent to which such action has had a favourable influence on the employment situation of this category of the population.

Article 8. In addition to the measures referred to above (under Article 6, point 2) the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide detailed information on the special measures intended more generally for juveniles, which, in order to implement this Article of the Convention, shall be taken and developed within the framework of the employment and vocational guidance services.