The government has formulated National Employment Policy 2022 identifying a number of challenges including absence of public and private measures that hinder the skilled workforce generation. The policy, first of its kind that has recently been finalised, also aims to create about 30 million fresh jobs by 2030 and thus keep the unemployment rate at lowest level by 2041. The employment and labour ministry on July 14 last issued a gazette notification in this regard. It found insufficient information regarding sector-wise demand and supply of skilled workers as one of the major challenges to generate skilled workers. The other challenges or obstacles included lack of literacy and knowledge on language, non-prioritising the experience or knowledge gained from vocational and stipend education and training in time of job appointment, and inadequate sector-wise technology-based modern training facilities. According to the policy, the number of unemployed and disguised unemployed people is about 2.7 million and 12.5 million respectively while more than 60 million people are capable to work. Formal sectors can create employment for only 15 per cent of people while 85 per cent work in informal sector, it said. About half out of the 60 million are women and majority of them are unemployed, it said adding 33 per cent of them work in informal sector with nominal payment.
India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster has announced at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The target date is two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India is the last of the world’s major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the United States and the European Union aiming for 2050.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.