Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

The district which are having high proportion of marginal workers than State average
(25.90%) are Chamoli, Tehri Garhwal, Pauir Garhwal, Almora, Pithoragarh, Bageshwar
and Champawat which indicates that employment opportunities on sustainable basis
needs to be generated in these districts particularly under wage employment. In addition
to this, the no. of unemployment persons registered in Live register were 4.14 lakh
(2005-06) and for them also employment opportunities on sustainable basis needs to be
provided.
There are 16.14 lakh non workers in the age group of 14 to 16 years. Assuming that
11.20 lakh (80%) of non workers would be from age group of 18-60 years, it would not
be possible to absorb this work force in agriculture sector alone. Major portion of the
non workers can be gainfully employed in Non Farm sector activities which are not only
labour intensive but also give rise to wage / self employment in rural areas and will be
helpful in arresting migration to urban areas. Of the 16.14 lakh Non workers, 12.18 lakh
are women constituting 75.5% of Non workers. In order to provide gainful employment
to such large number of women, it calls for focusing our efforts on making schemes
most suitable to women, especially household industry.
(Table 3.b) Classification of Workers and Its Percentage to Total Workforce
Numbers in Lakh
Type of Main Marginal Total Male Female
workers
Cultivators 10.67 (34.0) 5.03 (16.1) 15.7 (50.01) 6.84 (21.8) 8.86 (28.3)
Agricultural 1.43 (4.6) 1.17 (3.7) 2.6 (8.3) 1.90 (6.1) 0.69 (2.2)
laborers’
Household 0.49 (1.6) 0.23 (0.7) 0.72 (2.3) 0.44 (1.4) 0.29 (0.9)
industry
Others 10.63 (33.9) 1.69 (5.4) 12.32 (39.3) 10.78 (34.4) 1.54 (4.9)
Total 23.22 (74.1) 8.12 (25.9) 31.34 (100) 19.96 (63.7) 11.98 (36.3)
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