In the last 50 years employment, generation in the country is not commensurate with the growth of GDP in India.
The GDP growth was about 3.6% during 1950s and it grew at a healthly rate of more than 8% in 2010. Employment generation was 0.39% in the 1950s and it maintained some semblance of growth between 1960s and 1990s. But by the second half of the 2010s, employment generation fallen drastically. Therefore, we can conclude that employment generated in the country is commensurate with the growth of GDP in india.
The reason is that the rise in GDP is caused by employing modern and improved technology that substituted labor for machines. This ** to generate new employment opportunities in the industrial and the tertiary sectors. Thus, the industrial and the tertiary sectors ** to absorb the excess labor from the agricultural sector. As a result, disguised unemployment in the agricultural sector continued along with low levels of productivity and massive **. In addition to this, MNCs that played an important role in India' economic growth provided employment only to the educated and specialized workforce. These MNCs aimed at achieving higher output levels by employment better technology rather than generating greater employment opportunities. Thus, employment generated in the country does not commensurate with the growth of GDP in India.
