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With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

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Thursday, 20 May 2021

Suspending Surveys ? How about Scrapping ?

 


 

 

Context :

Government suspends key nationwide surveys amid raging Covid-19 2nd wave

 

Extract :

The Union authorities has suspended work on 4 key surveys on

#  Migrants #  Home employees #  jobs created by the Transport sector  and  #   Professionals ,

With lockdowns and curfews being imposed throughout the nation, surveyors .. will discover it tough to go to households, places of work and worksites,…and the surveys will restart as soon as the state of affairs improves.

The delay could.. have an opposed influence on the proposed nationwide employment coverage that the federal government was mulling.

 “We are speaking to our professional committee on how one can incorporate the brand new realities in these surveys.. Second, nobody will entertain surveyors at their houses throughout a second wave,” mentioned Negi, who can also be the chief labour commissioner (central).

According to the Union labour ministry,

#    The Migrants’ survey would be the first such examine of “ the socio-

       economic and dealing circumstances of  migrant employees”

       

#    The survey of Home employees expects to seize the socio-economic

      situation, the job desire and influence of the pandemic on their financial

      standing

      

#     The Transport sector survey was imagined to seize the roles created by

       the trade, together with by taxi aggregators,

        

#     The one on Professionals was imagined to seize the employment era and

       potential of tens of hundreds of pros, together

       with advocatesdocs and chartered accountants.

       

On March 31, labour minister Santosh Gangwar mentioned the surveys will “generate extremely helpful knowledge for efficient policymaking within the area of labour and employment”.


The examine of the labour market, together with gig employees, will assist the federal government formulate a complete employment coverage for each formal and casual segments and design social safety and welfare measures.


Besides, there was a rising demand for a nationwide coverage on employment to formalize the big casual sector, implement social safety for unorganised employees, and formulate welfare schemes for low-income households.


The surveys are essential as they might present a holistic image of the employment market and the socioeconomic situation of migrants and different casual employees..


The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 230 million Indians to poverty, in response to a survey by Azim Premji University.

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MY  TAKE  :

Ø  To conduct these surveys ( and many other not listed above ), we will need to engage lakhs of SURVEYORS , spread over a period of months , involving millions of man-hours for each exercise


Ø  These Surveyors would need to be given some ( obsolete ? ) DATABASE of households across entire country ( may be each Ministry has its own “ Database of Householders “ ?  )


Ø  May be, each surveyor manages to visit 4 / 5 householders per day


Ø  They will ( most likely ) carry with them, lengthy printed forms, each having ( may be ) 30 data-fields


Ø  By reading out each question to the householder, they will enter the submitted data in the form ( many times, their own “ liberal interpretation “ of what was said by the householder ). Without doubt, these surveyors would need to be “ multi-linguists “ , especially in Metros where the citizen population is cosmopolitan, with 5 / 6 different major Indian languages . Accurate translation will be a big problem


Ø  Then, they will need  “ INPUT “ all the collected data into  Online Databases ( on as many different govt portals, as there are no of different surveys , conducted by different Ministries )


Ø  Under the universal idiom of “ left hand does not know what the right hand is doing “ , there is bound to be a dozen data-fields which are IDENTICAL across the SURVEY FORMS of different Ministries ! – may be in different order !


Ø  I am sure, data inputted by each Surveyor ( for each exercise ) for each household, will be “ Counter-checked “ for accuracy, by ANOTHER DATA ENTRY OPERATOR


Ø  By the time a given survey-exercise gets over and the “ inputted data “ properly analyzed and tabulated, it will take 12 / 18 months. At the whim of the Ministry concerned, that ANALYSIS may or may not get published on the Ministry’s website !


IN SUMMARY :

Ø  These are time and money consuming, wasteful exercises, of little relevance to real-time policy initiatives


Ø  If possible, ALL such surveys must get consolidated into ONE SINGLE UNIVERSAL and ONGOING process , with little or just one-time “ human intervention “


Ø  It should be VOLUNTARY but offering such powerful INCENTIVES that, every citizen joins and updates-edits, his / her data, every time there is a change


Ø  Such a TECHNOLOGY – DRIVEN process should be spread-over a period of 3 years for all establishments in the country


WHAT COULD BE THE OUTLINE / FRAME-WORK OF SUCH A PROCESS ?

Ø  From BAD to MAD …………………………[ 01 June 2016 ]



 

Suggested Reading :

Ø  Even Inevitable takes time ……………[ 11 Mar 2021 ]


 

With regards,

 

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@recruitGuru.com  /  21 May 2021

 

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