Ahmedabad at bottom of 8 cities in job creation: Study

Ahmedabad: The city gave a poor show in creating jobs in the annual quarter from January to March in 2016. A study conducted by apex industry body Assocham found that in the given period only 20,541 jobs were created in the city, which was just 2.4% of total jobs created in eight major metros of India, in the same period. The city ranked lowest in job creation in the last quarter of FY-16, among eight cities including Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region), Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata. However, given that an earlier study released about a month ago had found 42,530 new jobs had been created in the entire state of Gujarat in the last quarter of FY-16, findings of the recent study showed Ahmedabad, alone, continues to generate close to 50% of new jobs in the state.In the recently published Assocham Placement Study of major metros of India, Delhi-NCR led job creation with 2.6 lakh new jobs, claiming over 30.1% of the total 8.52 lakh jobs created in eight cities. About 89% of jobs were created in just five cities with Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad trailing after Delhi, said the study.Bangalore contributed 23.4% of total jobs, according to the study, followed by Mumbai with 18.6%. Among major cities that recorded significant job openings during January to March 2016, Ahmedabad ranked the lowest.In Ahmedabad, of the new job openings created in last quarter of FY-16, about 54.5% were from IT-enabled services (ITeS) followed by services sector (17.3%), manufacturing (14.17%), banking financial services and insurance (8.3%) among others.IT, IT-enabled services and IT hardware sector, together, accounted for the major share of about 60.6% of new jobs generated across sectors among all cities studied by Assocham during January - March 2016, while services sector ranked second with 17.6% share followed by manufacturing (9.4%).In an earlier study of job creation in states during last quarter of FY-16, Gujarat, with 5% share of total jobs created in India, was ranked 7th among states, while Karnataka had emerged numero uno in this regard with a share of over 24%. That earlier study had revealed that states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh had created more jobs in the last quarter of FY16 than Gujarat. Maharashtra (23%) was ranked second, followed by Tamil Nadu (10.5%), Andhra Pradesh and Telangana region combined (9%), Haryana (8%) and Uttar Pradesh (7.5%).