The Labour Bureau's Fifteenth Quarterly Report on the Effect of Economic Slowdown on Employment in India showed that 73,000 jobs were generated between April and June 2012 against 80,000 in the previous quarter.
In the third quarter of the previous financial year, 2,26000 jobs were generated in the sectors and 3.15 jobs were generated in the second quarter.
The survey was started after the 2008-09 global economic crisis to track employment trends in labour-intensive sectors.
Job creation in industrial sectors such as metals and automobiles declined by 0.04 lakh and 0.05 lakh, respectively.
However, marginal increases were seen in textiles (50,000), gems and jewellery (5,000), and IT and BPO (27,000).
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