Database On Labour & Employment Statistics of West Bengal - 2014

DATABASE ON
LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

OF WEST BENGAL - 2014
BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
2015
DATABASE ON
LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
OF WEST BENGAL- 2014
BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMEIMPLEMENTATION
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
2015
PREFACE
A fundamental feature of a well-functioning and competitive labour market is high

quality, easily accessible Labour Management Information (LMI) System. Key components
of an optimal LMI system includes types of data, quality standards for data, level of details,
analytic enhancement of data and information dissemination strategies and mechanisms
adopted by Government. This necessitates modern day Statistical system to maintain
database on Labour and Employment Statistics.
In State Strategic Statistical Plan, a Central Sector scheme, 20 Key Statistical activities
have been identified and preparation of database on Labour and Employment Statistics is
one of them. Bureau of Applied Economics & Statistics, a Directorate under Department of
Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal has been entrusted
with the job for the State of West Bengal.
In order to achieve the milestone, as a maiden attempt, Bureau has now prepared a
database on Labour and Employment Statistics of West Bengal-2014. The data, which have
been collated in the database includes, Population and Household, Labour Force,
Employment, Unemployment and Under Employment, Unemployment of Youths, Hours of
Work, Earnings and Employment Related Income, Occupational Injury, Labour Cost, Trade
Union, Strikes and Lockouts, Labour Inspection among many others.
In this endeavour the framework has been designed by Dr. Gopaldeb

Chattopadhyay, Assistant Director of this Directorate. I express my sincere thanks to
Dr. Chattopadhyay for designing the framework and collating various labour and
employment statistics related data under one frame. My sincere thanks go to the Labour
Department of the Government of West Bengal for providing various data on Labour
Statistics.
I hope that the administrators, planners and researchers will find the publication
useful. Nonetheless, like every phenomenon, in the present publication also there may be
scopes for further improvement. Comments and suggestions for improvement will be most
welcome.
Place: Kolkata Dipankar Chattopadhyay

Date: 22.05.15 Director
Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics
Government of West Bengal
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CONTENTS
Sl. Title Page
No. Nos.
1 Preface
2 Content i-xii
3 Highlights xiii-xx
4 Concepts & Definitions xxi-xxxiii
5 Chapter-1: Population and Household 1-31
6 Chapter-2: Labour Force 32-36
7 Chapter-3: Employed (Work Force) 37-81
8 Chapter 4: Unemployment and Underemployment 82-95
9 Chapter 5: Unemployment of Youths 96-99
10 Chapter 6: Working Hour 100-102
11 Chapter 7: Earnings and Employment Related Income 103-107
12 Chapter 8: Occupational Injury 108-113
13 Chapter 9: Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining 114-115
14 Chapter 10: Strikes and Lockout 116-120
15 Chapter 11: Labour Inspection 121-150
16 Chapter 12: Miscellaneous 151-189
17 Appendix: National Industrial Classification-2008 190-193

[BROAD STRUCTURE (Sections and Divisions)]
18 References 194-195
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List of Detailed Tables

Sl. Table No. Title Page
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Chapter-1: Population and Household
1. 1.1 Distribution of Population by sex and by age group in West 1
Bengal as per Census 2011
2. 1.2 Per 1000 distribution of estimated number of persons by age- 2
group during 2011-12
3. 1.3 Number of female headed (fh.) households per 1000 3
households, sex-ratio and average household size by sex of
the head of
household
4. 1.4(a) Per 1000 distribution of rural households by household type 4
5. 1.4(b) Per 1000 distribution of rural households by household type 4-5
during 1993-94 to 2009-10
6. 1.5 Per 1000 distribution of urban households by household type 5-6
7. 1.6(a) Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by household type 6
during 2011-12
8. 1.6(b) Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by household type 7
during 1993-94 to 2009-10
9. 1.7 Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by household type 8
during 1993-94 to 2011-12
10. 1.8(a) Per 1000 distribution of rural households over decile classes 9
of population by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE)
during 2011-12
11. 1.8(b) Per 1000 distribution of rural households by monthly per 9
capita expenditure (MPCE) class during 2005-06
12. 1.8(c) Per 1000 distribution of rural households by monthly per 10
13. 1.9(a) Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by monthly per capita 11
expenditure (MPCE) class during 2005-06
14. 1.9(b) Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by monthly per capita 11
15. 1.10(a) Per 1000 distribution of urban households over decile classes 12
of population by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE)
during 2011-12
16. 1.10(b) Per 1000 distribution of urban households by monthly per 12
17. 1.10(c) Per 1000 distribution of urban households by Monthly per 13
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18. 1.11(a) Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by monthly per capita 13
19. 1.11(b) Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by monthly per capita 14
20. 1.12 Per 1000 distribution of rural households by type of land 14
owned
21. 1.13 Per 1000 distribution of rural households by size class of 15
land owned
22. 1.14 Average area of land possessed (hectare) and per 1000 16
distribution of rural households by size class of land
possessed (Rural)
23. 1.15 Per 1000 distribution of rural households by size class of 17
land cultivated
24. 1.16 Per 1000 distribution of rural households by use of hired 17
labour for crop production
25. 1.17 Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by broad 18-26
groups of industry
26. 1.18 Number of households with no literate member/literate 27
female member of age 15 yrs. and above per 1000
households
27. 1.19 Per 1000 distribution of households by number of usually 28
employed (PS+SS) persons of age 15 years and above as
members of household
28. 1.20 Per 1000 distribution of rural males and females by 29-30
educational level
29. 1.21 Per 1000 distribution of urban males and females by 31
educational level
Chapter-2: Labour Force
30. 2.1 Labour Force participation rates by sex 32-33
31. 2.2 Labour force participation rates (usual status) for persons of 34-35
age 15 years and above
32. 2.3 District-wise Labour force participation rates (usual status) by 36
residence & sex in West Bengal during 2009-10
Chapter-3: Employed (Work Force)
33. 3.1 Number of persons usually employed in the principal status 37
(p.s.) and in the principal as well as subsidiary status (all) per
1000 persons (WPR) by sex and residence status
34. 3.2(a) Age specific usual principal status worker population ratio 38
during 2011-12
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35.
3.2(b) Age specific usual principal status worker population ratio 39-42
during 1993-94 to 2009-10
36.
3.3(a) Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker 43
population ratio during 2011-12
37.
3.3(b) Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker 44-46
population ratio during 1993-94 to 2009-10
38. 3.4 Education specific 'worker population ratio' for persons of 47-51
age 15 years and above according to usual principal status
39. 3.5 Education specific 'worker population ratio' for persons of 52-56
age 15 years and above according to usual principal and
subsidiary status (all workers)
40. 3.6 Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by status 57-61
of employment
41. 3.7 Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the 62-65
principal status by industry
42. 3.8 Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the 66-70
principal and subsidiary status taken together by industry
43. 3.9 Number of persons employed according to current weekly 71

and current daily status per 1000 persons by sex and
residence status
44. 3.10 Number of workers by enterprise type in un-incorporated 72

non-agricultural enterprises (excluding construction
activities) during 2010-11
45. 3.11 Number of workers by nature of employment and gender in 72-74

un-incorporated non-agricultural enterprises (Excluding
construction activities) during 2010-11
46. 3.12 Activity-wise Number of Workers in 2005 75-76
47. 3.13(a) Numbers of Establishment, Employment and Women 77

Employment in the Organised Sector
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48. 3.13 (b): Distribution of Employees in Government of West Bengal by 78
District of Posting and Sex as on 31.03.13
49. 3.13(c) Districtwise number of male main workers and marginal 79

workers as per population census 2011
50. 3.13(d) Districtwise number of female main and marginal workers 80

as per population census 2011
51. 3.14 District-wise Worker Population Ratio under usual activity 81

status by residence & sex during 2009-10
Chapter 4: Unemployment and Underemployment

52.
4.1 Usual status unemployment rates by sex 82
53. 4.2 Current weekly status unemployment rates by sex 83
54. 4.3 Current daily status unemployment rates by sex 84
55. 4.4 Unemployment rates (usual principal status) for the educated 85
(15 years and above)
56. 4.5 Unemployment rates (usual principal and subsidiary status 86

taken together) for the educated (15 years and above)
57. 4.6 Unemployment rates (current weekly status) for the educated 87
(15 years and above)
58. 4.7 Per 1000 distribution of usually employed (principal and 88

subsidiary status) by their broad current weekly status
59. 4.8 Per 1000 distribution of person-days of usually employed 89

(principal and subsidiary status) by their broad current daily
status
60. 4.9 Per 1000 distribution of person-days of persons employed 90

according to current weekly status by their broad daily status
61. 4.10 Number of workers (usual principal status) who did not work 91
more or less regularly per 1000 workers (usual principal
status) for each sex
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62. 4.11 Number of usually working (principal) persons (15 years & 92
above) who sought or were available for additional work per
1000usually working (principal) persons (15 years & above)
for each sex
63. 4.12 Number of usually working (principal) persons (15 yrs. & 93
above) who sought or were available for alternate work per
1000 usually working (principal) persons (15 yrs. & above)
for each sex
64. 4.13 Districtwise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under 94

usual activity status by residence
65. 4.14 Districtwise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under 95

usual activity status by sex
Chapter 5: Unemployment of Youths

66. 5.1 Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) 96
according to usual principal status by age-group and sex

according to usual principal & subsidiary status by age-group
and sex

according to current weekly status by age-group and sex

according to current daily status by age-group and sex
Chapter 6: Working Hour

70. 6.1 Distribution of rural workers by number of normal working 100
hours of the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises
in a day during 2010-11.
71. 6.2 Distribution of urban workers by number of normal working 101

72. 6.3 Distribution of all workers by number of normal working 102
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Chapter 7: Earnings and Employment Related Income
73. 7.1 Average wage/ salary earnings (Rs. 0.00) per day received 103-
by employees of age 15-59 years. 104
74. 7.2 Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per hired rural worker by 105
enterprise type in unincorporated non-agricultural
enterprises during 2010-11.
75. 7.3 Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per hired urban worker by 106
enterprises during 2010-11
76. 7.4 Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per hired worker by 107
enterprises during 2010-11
Chapter 8: Occupational Injury

77. 8.1 Number of accidents in West Bengal 108
78. 8.2 Industry-wise number of accidents in West Bengal 108
79. 8.3 Cause-wise number of accidents in West Bengal 109
80. 8.4 Agency-wise distribution of fatal accidents in West 110

Bengal
81. 8.5 Industry-wise distribution of fatal accidents in West 111

Bengal
82. 8.6 Cause-wise distribution of Jute Mill Accidents in West 112

Bengal
83. 8.7 Employment position of safety officers in factories in 112

West Bengal
84. 8.8 Boilers & Economisers Statistics of West Bengal 113
Chapter 9: Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining

85. 9.1 Number of Registered Trade Unions in West Bengal 114
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Conduction of Election for the Recognition of Trade
86. 9.2 114
Unions of West Bengal
Report on the Trade Unions of West Bengal
87. 9.3 114-115
Chapter 10: Strikes and Lockout

88. 10.1 Particulars of Work Stoppage (Strikes and Lockouts) in 116
different years in West Bengal
89. 10.2 Strikes and Lockout by causes in West Bengal 117-118
90. 10.3 Region-wise position of work stoppage (Strikes and 119

Lockouts) in West Bengal
91. 10.4 Work Stoppage (Strikes and Lockouts) by selected industry 120
in West Bengal
Chapter 11: Labour Inspection

92. 11.1 Particulars of Implementation of Labour Law in West 121
Bengal
93. 11.2 Statement of disposals of court cases under 11 labour 121

legislations in West Bengal
94. 11.3 Statement of claim cases under section 20 of the Minimum 122
wage act, 1948 and sec. 15 of payment of wages act, 1936
(filed by Inspectors) in West Bengal
95. 11.4 Particulars of Inspection etc. under different acts in West 123-134
Bengal
96. 11.5 Monthly Minimum Wages (Basic+DA) in different 135-

schedules of employments under the Minimum Wages Act, 142
1948 as on 31 st March, 2013 in West Bengal
97. 11.6 Monthly Minimum Wages (Basic+DA) in different 143-

schedules of employments under the Minimum Wages Act, 148
1948 as on 31 st March, 2014 in West Bengal
Starting Monthly Wages and Earnings of Workmen in
98. 11.7 149
Major Industries of West Bengal
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99. 11.8 Number of officers under the Chief Inspector of Factories, 150
Government of West Bengal
Chapter 12: Miscellaneous

100. 12.1 Industrial disputes (Year wise) in West Bengal 151
101. 12.2 Industrial disputes by method of disposal in West Bengal 151
102. 12.3 Settlement/ Non-Settlement of Industrial disputes in West 152

Bengal
103. 12.4 Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers of 153-154
West Bengal for the year 2012 (Base: 2001=100)
104. 12.5 Consumer Price Index Number for different classes of 154
West Bengal
105. 12.6 Consumer Price Index Number for Working Class of West 155
Bengal during 2010-11 to 2013-14 (Base: 1951=100)
106. 12.7 Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker of West 156
Bengal (Base: 1960=100)
107. 12.8 Financial Assistance to the Workers of West Bengal in 156

Locked Out Industrial (FAWLOI) Unit
108. 12.9 District wise cumulative report under State Assisted 157
Scheme of Provident Fund for Unorganized Workers
(SASPFUW) of West Bengal upto 31.03.13
109. 12.10 Year wise progress under State Assisted Scheme of 158
Provident Fund for Unorganized Workers (SASPFUW) of
West Bengal
110. 12.11 Number of “Samajik Mukti Card”,a photo identity smart 159
card for unorganised workers of West Bengal, received
from WEBEL upto 31.03.14
111. 12.12 District wise cumulative report under West Bengal 160
Unorganized Sector Workers’ Health Security Scheme
(WBUSWHSS)
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112. 12.13 District wise list of special schools under National Child 161
Labour Project (NCLP) in West Bengal during 2013-14
(Provisional)
113. 12.14 District wise cumulative report under Building and Other 162
Construction Workers’ Welfare (Regulation of Employment
and Conditions of Service) Act (BOCWA) in West Bengal
114. 12.15 Year wise progress report on BOCWA in West Bengal 163
115. 12.16 District-wise cumulative report on Electrification of Houses 164

under West Bengal Beedi Workers’ Welfare Scheme
116. 12.17 Year-wise progress report on Electrification of Houses 165

under West Bengal Beedi Workers’ Welfare Scheme
117.
12.18 District-wise cumulative report on Housing Subsidy under 166
West Bengal Beedi Workers’ Welfare Scheme
118. 12.19 Report on Identity Cards issued to Beedi workers of West 167
Bengal upto 2013-14
119. 12.20 Report regarding benefit disbursement under West Bengal 168
Transport Workers’ Social Security Scheme 2010 upto
31.3.14
120. 12.21 District-wise progress report under West Bengal Transport 169
Workers’ Social Security Scheme, 2010 (upto 31.03.2014)
121. 12.22 Administration of the West Bengal Shops & Establishment 170
Act, 1963
122. 12.23 Registration details during the year 2012 & 2013 under 170
West Bengal Shops & Establishment Act, 1963
123. 12.24 No. of registered factories in West Bengal 171
124. 12.25 Distribution of factories registered according the number of 171

workers during 2013-14 in West Bengal
125. 12.26 Number of visits to factories by Inspectors of Government 172

of West Bengal
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126. 12.27 Average daily number of workers* employed in major 172
industrial groups in West Bengal as per statutory returns
furnished by the employers
127. 12.28 District-wise average daily number of workers employed in 173

major industrial groups in West Bengal as per statutory
returns furnished by the employers
128. 12.29 Total Employment in Factories (2009 to 2012-13) of West 174

Bengal
129. 12.30 Employment of Women in Factories of West Bengal 174
130. 12.31 Violation of health provision observed in West Bengal 174

131.
12.32 Jobseekers on the Live-Register of the employment 175
exchanges in West Bengal as on 31.03.2013 & 31.03.14
132. 12.33 District-wise registration on the Live-Register of the 176

employment exchanges in West Bengal
133. 12.34 Sector-wise Vacancies notified & Placements in West 177

Bengal
134. 12.35 District-wise Vacancies notified and Placements in West 178

Bengal
135. 12.36 Post-graduates and Professional Degree holders’ 179

registration etc. in West Bengal
136. 12.37 Qualification-wise breakup of Live-Register of Professional 179

& Executive Office in West Bengal
137. 12.38 Activities of Exempted Category Cell in West Bengal 180
138. 12.39 Status of special categories on Live-Register in 180

Employment Exchanges of West Bengal during the year
2012-13
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139. 12.40 Information regarding Employment (estimated) in 181
Organized Sector of West Bengal under Employment
Market Information (EMI) Programme for the quarter
ended on 30/06/2012 and 30/03/13.
140. 12.41 Sector-wise estimated employment in West Bengal under 182
EMI Programme
141. 12.42 Number of career talk programme conducted in West 182
Bengal
142. 12.43(a) Information on Employment Bank in West Bengal 183
143. 12.43(b) Information on “Yuvasree” in West Bengal 183
144. 12.44 Performance of Udiyaman Swanirbhar Karmasansthan 183
Prakalpa (USKP)-2008 in West Bengal
145. 12.45(a) ESI Hospitals during the year 2012-13 in West Bengal 184
146. 12.45(b) ESI Hospitals during the year 2013-14 in West Bengal 185
147. 12.46 Number of ESI Insured persons in West Bengal 185
148. 12.47 Progress in service utilization (Hospitalization) under 186
Rastriya Swastha Bima Yojana in West Bengal
149. 12.48 Activities of the office of the Commissioner, Workmen’s 186
compensation, Durgapur, Government of West Bengal
150. 12.49 Number of adjudication of Industrial Dispute (I.D.) Cases 187-188
in West Bengal
151. 12.50 Industrial Cases dealt with by Industrial Tribunals and Labour 189
Courts of West Bengal
ABBREVIATIONS/SYMBOLS USED
hhs Households
fh. hhs Female headed households
ps Principal Status
ss Subsidiary Status
wpr Worker population ratio
n.r. Not reported
OAE Own Account Worker
NDE Non-Directory Establishment
DE Directory Establishment
.. Not Available
(P) Provisional Figure
- NIL
NIC National Industrial Classification
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HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
® Population census figures of 2011 reveals that in West Bengal 67.4% of the
population are in the age-group 15-65 years. The said percentages in rural and urban
areas are 65.7% and 70.9%.
® In the age-group 15-35 years around 35.8% populations were there in West Bengal
without much rural-urban differences, as is evident from 2011 population census
figures.
® Various National Sample Survey (NSS) estimates reveal that percentages of female headed
households are increasing. The said percentages in rural areas increased from 7.8% in
1999-2000 to 10.3% in 2011-12 and in urban areas this has increased from 11.5% in
1999-2000 to 14.4% in 2011-12.
® From NSS estimates, it is also revealed that in rural West Bengal, self-employed
households in Agriculture have decreased from 27.2% in 1993-94 to 18.9% in 2011-12
and self-employed households in non-agriculture have increased from 19.72% in 1993-94
to 22.1% in 2011-12. In urban West Bengal, self-employed households have increased
from 30.3% in 1993-94 to 37.9% in 2011-12 and regular wage/salaried households have
decreased from 50.4% in 1993-94 to 37.5% in 2011-12.
® Various NSS estimates reveal that in rural West Bengal, self-employed persons in
Agriculture have decreased from 30.8% in 1993-94 to 19.4% in 2011-12 and self-
employed persons in non-agriculture have increased from 20.4% in 1993-94 to 23% in
2011-12. In urban West Bengal, self-employed persons have increased from 35.7% in
1993-94 to 44% in 2011-12 and regular wage/salaried persons have decreased from 47.9%
in 1993-94 to 37.4% in 2011-12.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® In rural West Bengal, during 2011-12, 16.5% of the households were in bottom 20%
monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) decile group and 24.5% of the
households were in the top 20% MPCE decile group, in contrary to the all India rural
household figures 15.7% and 25.4% respectively.
® In urban West Bengal, during 2011-12, 15.7% of the households were in bottom 20%
monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) decile group and 15.3% of the
households were in the top 20% MPCE decile group, in contrary to the all India
urban household figures 14.9% and 26.9% respectively.
® Average area of land under possession of rural households in West Bengal was much
less (0.17 hectare) compared to all India (0.65 hectare) as per NSS estimates during
the year 2011-12. This has reduced from 0.32 hectare during 1999-2000. For female
headed rural households the average area of land under possession was only 0.11 hectare
during 2011-12.
® During 2011-12, in West Bengal, around 64.4% rural households did not cultivate any
land and around 24% rural households cultivated less than 0.40 hectare land.
Remaining 12% rural households cultivated more than 0.40 hectare land. Whereas in
India, the said percentages are approximately 47.4%, 20.4% and 32.2% respectively.
® The percentages of rural households, who are not cultivating any land, are increasing
both in West Bengal and in India. In case of West Bengal, the percentage has
increased to around 64.4% in 2011-12 from 50% in 1999-2000, while the same for
India increased to around 47.4% in 2011-12 from 41% in 1999-2000.
® In primary sector, usually employed rural persons decreased to 53.2% in 2011-12
from 72.3% in 1995-96 while both in secondary and tertiary sector the percentages of
the said persons increased to 28.2% and 18.5% respectively in 2011-12 from 13.4%,
14.5% in 1995-96.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® Majority urban persons are usually employed in tertiary and secondary sector. In 2011-
12, around 58.1% urban persons were usually employed in tertiary sector and 39.4%
were in secondary sector. Compared to India, both in rural and urban part of West
Bengal more persons were engaged in secondary and tertiary sector together in 2011-12.
® Number of households with no literate member and no literate female member of age 15 years
and above is less in West Bengal compared to all India, both in rural and urban areas.
In rural West Bengal 22.8% and 41.8% households were there with no literate member
and no literate female members of age 15 years and above during 2004-05. The
corresponding percentages in urban part of the State were only 7.2% and 13.7%.
Whereas, the respective percentages were 26.1% and 50% for rural India and 8.4%
and 19.5% for urban India.
® Rural Persons not literate in West Bengal are observed to be lower than in India during
2011-12. This is true for both males and females.
® Both for males and females in rural West Bengal the Labour Force Participation Rate
(LFPR) increased. Under Principal Status as well as Subsidiary Status in rural sector the
rates (per 1000 persons) increased from 549 in 1993-94 to 602 in 2011-12 for males and
165 to 194 for females. In urban part of the State the rates (per 1000 persons) increased
to 630 from 587 for males and 186 from 167 for females in 2011-12 from 1993-94.
While the rates for the males are higher in West Bengal compared to all India rates,
the same is not true for the females, especially in rural areas.
® The LFPR indicates that female participation rate is much lower compared to male
participation rate. Further, female participation rates are lower by around 6% in rural
West Bengal compared to all India although male LFPR is higher than the national
level LFPR.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® While persons of age 15 years and above only were considered, it has been noted that
in rural West Bengal, both for males and females, the Labour Force Participation Rate
(LFPR) decreased. Under Principal Status as well as Subsidiary Status in rural sector the
male LFPR (per 1000 persons) decreased from 897 in 1993-94 to 850 in 2011-12 while
female LFPR decreased to 264 in 2011-12 from 291 in 1993-94. In urban part of the
State, the rates decreased to 779 in 2011-12 from 815 in 1993-94 for males and
increased to 229 in 2011-12 from 219 in 1993-94 for females.
® The LFPR indicates that female participation rate is much lower compared to male
participation rate. Further, female participation rates are lower by around 10% in
rural West Bengal compared to all India although male LFPR are higher by around
4% than the national level LFPR.
® The district level pooled estimates for West Bengal reveals that in 2009-10, the LFPR
was highest in Purulia district followed by Nadia and Bankura district. Male-Female
differences were quite significant in each district including Kolkata.
® Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for both males and females are increasing over the
years in rural areas as well as urban areas of West Bengal. For rural males the rate
(per 1000 persons) increased to 857 in 2011-12 from 557 in 1993-94 under principal
status as well as subsidiary status. For urban males, the said rate increased to 816 in
2011-12 from 550 in 1993-94. Similarly, the rates for rural females increased to 279 in
2011-12 from 185 in 1993-94 and the rates for urban females increased to 238 in 2011-
12 from 143 in 1993-94.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® Age-specific WPR (per 1000 persons of the corresponding age-group) estimates reveal that
WPR of child below 14 years have decreased in rural areas but not so in urban areas.
Furthermore, the rates are higher compared to national level estimates.
® Education specific WPR for persons of age 15 years and above reveals that female
WPR, especially those with lower educational attainments, are much less in rural
areas than the national level estimates.
® Among usually employed persons, numbers of casual labours are much higher in urban
areas than in rural areas although self-employed persons are more or less same. Regular
employed persons are much higher in urban areas than in rural areas. In 2011-12,
almost 46% ruralites were self-employed, 45% ruralities were casual labour and the rest
9% were regular employed, whereas in urban West Bengal the said figures were
respectively 45%, 17% and 38%. Compared to national level, in West Bengal the
percentage of casual labours are higher.
® In rural West Bengal, among usually working persons majority are in agriculture sector,
followed by manufacturing sector and wholesale/retail trade/ restaurant activities etc,
while in urban West Bengal majority are in wholesale/retail trade/restaurant activities
etc. followed by manufacturing sector, public administration, education, community
services and transport.
® It is seen that, the problem of underemployment was more severe among usually
employed females than among employed males, and more in rural areas than in
urban areas.
® It is observed that the proportion of person-days of the usually employed utilised for
work was quite low for females compared to males.
® It is estimated that during 2010-11 around 73 lakh unincorporated non-agricultural
enterprises (excluding construction activities) were there in West Bengal involving
1.19 crore workers, which is round 11% of the national share.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® Economic Census-2005 reveals that in rural West Bengal there were around 55.5 lakh
workers and in urban West Bengal there were around 45 lakh workers. This is
excluding persons involved in crop production and plantation.
® Time series data of NSS estimates reveals, Unemployment Rates in rural West Bengal
has increased upto 2011-12 compared to all India level but unemployment rates of
urban West Bengal decreased in urban West Bengal.
® Unemployment Rate of females is more than that of males.
® Unemployment Rates by current weekly status increased in rural West Bengal but
decreased in Urban West Bengal.
® Unemployment Rates by current daily status decreased in both rural and urban areas
of West Bengal but the rate of decrease is higher in urban areas.
® Unemployment Rates for the educated (15 years and above) decreased over the years
in both rural and urban areas of West Bengal although higher than the national level
rates. In 2011-12, around 10% were unemployed in rural areas and 8% were
unemployed in urban areas, where as the said rates during 1993-94 were
approximately 14% and 16% respectively.
® Unemployment Rates under principal status as well as subsidiary status were around 6%
during 2011-12 for the educated (15 years and above) in both rural and urban West
Bengal.
® In 2011-12, among usually employed 96% rural males and 85% rural females were
employed under current weekly activity status. In urban areas 98.5% males and 93.6%
females were employed under current weekly activity status.
® In 2011-12, among usually employed around 90% rural males and 63% rural females
were employed under current daily activity status. In urban areas 95.5% males and
77.2% females were employed under current daily activity status.
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HIGHLIGHTS
® Number of workers (principal status) of age 15 years and above who did not work more or
less regularly per 1000 workers (usual principal status) is high in rural West Bengal
but low in urban West Bengal than those at the national level.
® Number of usually working (principal status) persons (15 years & above) who sought or
were available for additional work per 1000 usually working (principal status) persons
(15 years & above) are much higher in both rural and urban West Bengal compared
to those at national level.
® Number of usually working (principal) persons (15 years & above) who sought or were
available for alternate work per 1000 usually working (principal) persons (15 years &
above) are much higher in both rural and urban West Bengal compared to those at
national level.
® During 2009-10, in rural West Bengal highest level of unemployment rate was observed
in Darjeeling district followed by Birbhum and Jalpaiguri district. In urban West
Bengal highest level of unemployment rate was observed in Birbhum district followed
by Jalpaiguri and Barddhaman district. Further, unemployment rates in urban are
much higher than that in the rural areas.
® Unemployment rates of females were higher than that of males in Darjeeling,
Jalpaiguri, Nadia, Kolkata, Purba Medinipore, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly
districts.
® Youth (15-29 years) unemployment rate of rural West Bengal increased, although the
same for urban West Bengal decreased over the years 1993-94 to 2011-12. However,
the unemployment rates are much higher than the national level rates.
® In unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises, the percentage of rural-workers working

8 hours or more in West Bengal is less compared to that at national level, especially in
Manufacturing and Trade sector, during 2010-11. Again, higher percentage of rural
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HIGHLIGHTS
workers working more than 4 hours but less than 8 hours in West Bengal compared to
that at national level.
® In unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises, the percentage of urban-workers working
8 hours or more in West Bengal is less compared to that at national level, especially in
Trade and Other service sector, during 2010-11.
® In unincorporated non-agricultural establishments more than 90% persons worked 8
hours or more.
® Females are normally less paid than the males in West Bengal.
® In West Bengal, average emoluments per hired formal worker in unincorporated non-
agricultural establishments during 2010-11 were higher in Other Services followed by
Trade and Manufacturing.
® There were not many differences in payments of informal hired labours between Own
Account Enterprise (OAE) and Establishments in rural sector but the difference exists in
urban areas.
® Formal hired workers are paid more in urban West Bengal and less in rural West
Bengal than those at national level.
® Hired workers are paid more in urban areas than in rural areas of West Bengal.
® During 2010-11, in urban West Bengal formal hired workers are paid around Rs. 8730
per month but informal hired workers are paid around Rs. 2873 per month in
unincorporated non-agricultural enterprise, whereas in rural West Bengal the said
emoluments are respectively Rs. 3936 and Rs. 2256.
® In West Bengal, Higher percentage of fatal accidents observed in Manufacture of basic
metals and alloy industries followed by Electricity generation, transmission & distribution.
® Incidence Rate of accidents is highest in Jute industries followed by followed by Engineering,
Cotton and Chemical industries.
® In Jute industries around 50% of accidents are caused by Jute machineries in West Bengal.
® There has been zero loss of mandays due to strike during 2013-14 in West Bengal.
® About 44.5 lakh enrolments completed under State Assisted Scheme of Provident Fund
for Unorganized Workers (SASPFUW) of West Bengal and about Rs. 27 crore made as final
payment upto 31.03.14.
® About 15 lakh beneficiaries registered under Building and Other Construction Workers’
Welfare (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act (BOCWA) in West Bengal
upto 31.03.14.
® About 2 lakh transport workers registered under West Bengal Transport Workers’ Social
Security Scheme, 2010 upto 31.03.2014.
® “Yubasree” has been successfully launched and about 88 thousand beneficiaries
assisted under this scheme.
® About 8 lakh Samajik Mukti Cards (CMC), a photo identity smart card for unorganised
workers, have been issued in West Bengal.
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CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS

The database on Labour and Employment Statistics is a collection of time-series data from various
censuses, surveys and other official sources. To accommodate various changes of the phenomena in the
society as well as objective of the survey, the concept and definition of various terms used in different
surveys, sometimes get modified. Accordingly, there is a chance of conformity problem in the concepts
and definitions over time periods and it is difficult to provide exact concepts and definitions of the various
terms used in the present database. However, for an overall idea, a general concept and definitions have
been provided here. Interested readers are requested to refer the original report for the exact concepts and
definitions used in the survey corresponding to that year.
Household: A group of persons who normally lived together and took food from a common
kitchen constituted a household. The adverb “normally” means that temporary visitors and
guests (whose total period of stay in the household was expected to be less than 6 months)
were excluded but temporary stay-aways (whose total period of absence from the household
was expected to be less than 6 months) were included. Thus a child residing in a hostel for
studies are excluded from the household of his/ her parents, but a resident domestic servant
or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) are included in the employer’s /host’s
household. “Living together” is given more importance than “sharing food from a common
kitchen” in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict.
However, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere
(say, in a shop or a different house) due to shortage of space, the household formed by such
a person’s family members is to include the person also. Each inmate of a hotel, mess,
boarding-lodging house, hostel, etc., is considered to be a single-member household except
that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered one household only. The same principle is
applicable for the residential staff of such establishments. The size of a household is the total
number of persons in the household.
Household type: The household type is decided based on the sources of the household's
income during the 365 days preceding the date of survey. For this purpose, only the
household's income (net income and not gross income) from economic activities is
considered; but the incomes of servants and paying guests are not taken into account.
Household size: The size of a household is the total number of persons normally living in the
household.
Household consumer expenditure: The expenditure incurred by a household on domestic

consumption during the reference period is the household's consumer expenditure.
Household consumer expenditure is the total of the monetary values of consumption of
various groups of items, namely (i) food, pan (betel leaves), tobacco, intoxicants and fuel &
light, (ii) clothing and footwear and (iii) miscellaneous goods and services and durable
articles.
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Land owned by the household as on date of survey: A piece of land is considered as 'owned
by the household' if permanent heritable possession with or without the right to transfer the
title is vested on a member or members of the household. Land held in owner-like
possession say, under perpetual lease, hereditary tenure, long-term lease for 30 years or
more, etc., is also considered as land owned.
Land possessed by the household as on date of survey: The area of land possessed includes
land ‘owned’, ‘leased in’ and ‘land neither owned nor leased in’ (i.e. encroached) by the
household but excludes land 'leased out'. For a piece of land under the possession of the
household, if the household do not have the title of ownership and also do not have lease
agreement for the use of land transacted, either orally or in writing, such land is considered
as ‘neither owned nor leased in’. In collecting information regarding land possessed, the
actual position as obtained on the date of survey is considered. The ‘area of land possessed’
do not include the area of land owned, leased-in, etc. by the servants/paying guests who are
considered as normal members of the household, as per the definition of household taken up
for the survey.
Land cultivated (including orchard and plantation) during the agricultural year: Land
cultivated (including orchard and plantation) during the agricultural year are recorded
considering cultivation of land from the land 'owned', 'land leased-in' or from 'land neither
owned nor leased-in'. Area with field crops and area under orchards and plantations are
counted only once in the same year/ season.
Economic Activity: Any activity resulting in production of goods and services that adds
value to the national product is considered an economic activity. Such activities includes
production of all goods and services for the market (i.e. for pay or profit) including those of
government services, and, the production of primary commodities for own consumption
and own account production of fixed assets.
The term ‘economic activity’ includes (i) all the market activities performed for pay or profit
which result in production of goods and services for exchange; (ii) of the non-market
activities, (a) all the activities relating to the primary sector which result in production
(including free collection of uncultivated crops, forestry, firewood, hunting, fishing
mining, quarrying, etc.) of primary goods for own consumption, and (b) the activities
relating to the own-account production of fixed assets. Own- account production of fixed
assets includes construction of own houses, roads, wells etc, and of machinery, tools etc., for
household enterprise and also construction of any private or community facilities free of
charge. A person may be engaged in own account construction either in the capacity of a
labourer or a supervisor.
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As a normal practice, certain activities like prostitution, begging etc., where earnings accrue
are not included in ‘economic activities’. Activity status of a person is judged irrespective of
the situation whether such activity was carried out illegally in the form of smuggling or not.
Activity Status: This refers to the activity status in which a person was found during a
reference period with regard to the person’s participation in economic and non-economic
activities. According to this, a person is regarded as being in one or a combination of the
following three broad activity statuses during a reference period:
(i) working or being engaged in economic activity ‘work’ as defined above,

(ii) being not engaged in economic activity(work) but either making tangible efforts to
seek ‘work’ or being available for ‘ work’ if the ‘work’ is available, and
(iii) being not engaged in any economic activity (work) and also not available for ‘work’.
Broad activity status mentioned in (i) and (ii) above are associated with ‘being in labour
force’ and (iii) with ‘not being in the labour force’. Within the labour force, broad activity
status (i) and (ii) were associated with ‘employment and ‘unemployment’, respectively.
Categories of Activity Status: The identification of each individual in terms of a unique

activity status poses a problem when more than one of the three broad activity statuses listed
above are concurrently obtained for a person. In such an eventuality the identification is
done uniquely under any one of the three broad activity statuses by adopting either the
major time or priority. The former is used for classification of persons according to the ‘usual
activity status’ approach and the latter for classification of persons according to the ‘current
activity status’ approach. Each of the three broad activity statuses is further sub-divided into
several detailed activity categories.
The detailed activity categories under each of the three broad activity statuses i.e.
‘employed’, ‘unemployed, and ‘not in labour force’ used are stated below:
(i) Working (or Employed): (a) Self-Employed; (b) Regular-Wage/Salaried Employees;

(c) Casual labour
Self – Employed: (a) worked in household enterprise (self-employed) as own account

worker; (b) worked in household enterprise (self-employed) as employer; (c) Worked
in household enterprises (self employed) as helper;
Regular Wage / Salaried Employee: worked as regular wage / salaried employee;
Casual Labour: (a) worked as casual wage labour in public works other than Mahatma
Gandhi NREGA public works; (b) worked as casual wage labour in Mahatma Gandhi
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NREGA public works; (c) worked as casual wage labour in other types of works; (d)
did not work owing to (i) sickness and (ii) other reasons, though there was work in
household enterprise; (e) did not work owing to (i) sickness and (ii) other reasons, but
had regular wage /salaried employment;
(ii) Not Working but Seeking / Available for Work (or Unemployed): (a) sought work or did
not seek work but was available for work (for usual status approach) (b) sought work (for
current weekly status approach) (c) did not seek but was available for work (for current
weekly status approach)
(iii) Neither Working nor Available for Work (or not in Labour Force): (a) attended
educational institutions; (b) attended domestic duties only; (c) attended domestic duties and
was also engaged in free collection of goods (vegetables, roots, firewood, cattle-feed, etc.)
sewing, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use; (d) rentiers, pensioners, remittance
recipients, etc; (e) not able to work due to disability; (f) others (including beggars, prostitutes,
etc.) (g) did not work due to sickness (for casual workers only); (h) children of age 0 – 4 years
Workers (or employed): Workers (or employed) are persons who were engaged in any
economic activity or who, despite their attachment to economic activity, abstained from
work for reasons of illness, injury or other physical disability, bad weather, festivals, social or
religious functions or other contingencies necessitating temporary absence from work.
Unpaid helpers who assist in the operation of an economic activity in the household farm or
non-farm activities are also considered as ‘workers’.
Seeking or available for work (or unemployed): Those seeking work or being available for
work (or unemployed) are persons who, owing to lack of work, had not worked but either
sought work through employment exchanges, intermediaries, friends or relatives or by
making applications to prospective employers or expressed their willingness or availability
for work under the prevailing conditions of work and remuneration.
Labour Force: Persons, who were either ‘working’ (or employed) or ‘seeking or available
for work, (or unemployed), constitute the labour force.
Not in Labour Force: Persons, who are neither ‘working’ nor ‘seeking or available for work’
for various reasons during the reference period are considered as ‘not in labour force’. Those
under this latter category are students, those engaged in domestic duties, rentiers,
pensioners, recipients of remittances, those living on alms, infirm or disabled persons, too
young or too old persons, prostitutes, smugglers, etc. and casual labourers not working due
to sickness.
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Different approaches followed to determine activity status:
The persons are classified into various activity categories on the basis of the activities
pursued by them during certain specified reference periods. There are three reference
periods for these quinquennial surveys: (i) one year, (ii) one week, and (iii) each day of the
reference week. Based on these three periods, three different measures of
activity status are arrived at. These are termed as ‘usual status’, ‘current weekly
status’ and ‘current daily status’ respectively. The procedure adopted to arrive at ‘usual
status’, ‘current weekly status’ and ‘current daily status’ are elucidated as below:
Usual Principal Activity Status: The usual activity status relates to the activity status of a
person during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. The activity
status on which a person spent a relatively longer time (i.e. major time criterion) during the
365 days preceding the date of survey is considered as the principal usual activity status of
the person. To decide the principal usual activity of a person, he/she is first categorized as
those in the labour force (either employed or unemployed) and those not in the labour force
depending on the basis of major time spent during the 365 days preceding the date of
survey. Persons thus adjudged as not belonging to the labour force are assigned the broad
activity status ‘neither working nor available for work’ (not in the labour force). Persons thus
adjudged as not belonging to the labour force are assigned the broad activity status ‘neither
working nor available for work’ (not in the labour force). At the second stage, for persons
belonging to the labour force, the broad activity status of either ‘working’ (i.e. employed) or
‘not working but seeking and/or available for work’ (i.e. unemployed) are ascertained based
on the same criterion viz., relatively longer time spent in accordance with either of the two
broad statuses within the labour force during the 365 days preceding the date of survey.
Usual Subsidiary Economic Activity Status: A person whose principal usual status is
determined on the basis of the major time criterion could pursue some economic activity for
a relatively shorter time (minor time) during the reference period of 365 days preceding the
date of survey or for a minor period, which is less than 30 days (not necessarily for a
continuous period) during the reference year. The status, in which such economic activity is
pursued, is the subsidiary economic activity status of that person.
Usual Activity Status considering Principal and Subsidiary Status taken together (usual
status(adjusted)): The usual status, determined on the basis of the usual principal status and
usual subsidiary economic activity of a person taken together, is considered as the usual
activity status of the person and is written as usual status i.e. principal status plus subsidiary
status (ps+ss). Accordingly to the usual status (ps+ss), the workers are those who perform
some work activity either in the principal status or in the subsidiary status. Thus, a person
who is not a worker in the usual principal status is considered as worker according to the
usual status (ps+ss), if the person pursues some subsidiary economic activity for 30 days or
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more during 365 days preceding the date of survey. The usual status (ps+ss) is also termed
as usual status(adjusted).
Current Weekly Activity Status: The current weekly activity status of a person is the activity
status during a reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey. It is decided on
the basis of a certain priority cum major time criterion. According to the priority criterion,
the status of ‘working’ gets priority over the status of ‘not working but seeking or available
for work’, which, in turn, gets priority over the status of ‘neither working nor available for
work’. A person is considered working (or employed) if he/she, while pursuing any
economic activity, had worked for at least one hour on at least one day during the seven
days preceding the date of survey. A person is considered ‘seeking or available for work (or
unemployed’), if, during the reference week, no economic activity was pursued by the
person but he/she made efforts to get work or had been available for work any time during
the reference week though not actively seeking work in the belief that no work was available.
A person who has neither worked nor is available for work any time during the reference
week is considered as engaged in non-economic activities (or not in labour force). After
deciding upon the broad current weekly activity status of a person on the basis of the
‘priority’ criterion, the detailed current activity status is then decided on the basis of ‘major
time’ criterion if that person pursued multiple economic activities.
Current Daily Activity Status: The activity pattern of the population, particularly in the
unorganised sector, is such that during a week, and sometimes, even during a day, a person
could pursue more than one activity. Moreover, many people could even undertake both
economic and non-economic activities on the same day of a reference week. The current
daily activity status for a person is thus determined on the basis of his/her activity status on
each day of the reference week using a priority- cum- major time criterion (day to day labour
time disposition). Time disposition is recorded for every member of the sample households.
This involves recording of different activities pursued by the members along with the time
intensity in quantitative terms for each day of the reference week.
The following points are considered for assigning the time intensity and determining the
current daily status of a person: (i) each day of the reference week is looked upon as
comprising either ‘two half days’ or a ‘full’ day for assigning the activity status; (ii) a person
is considered ‘working’ (employed) for the full day, if he/she had worked for four hours or
more during the day; (iii) if a person is engaged in more than one economic activity for four
hours or more on a day, he/she is assigned two out of the various economic activities on
which he/she is devoted a relatively longer time on the reference day, an intensity of 0.5 is
given for each of the two economic activities; (iv) if the person had worked for one hour or
more but less than four hours, he/she is considered ‘working’ (employed) for half a day and
‘seeking or available for work’ (unemployed) or ‘neither seeking nor available for work’
(not in labour force) for the other half of the day depending on whether he is
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seeking/available for work or not; (v) if a person is not engaged in any ‘work’ even for one
hour on a day but was seeking /available for work even for four hours or more, he is
considered ‘unemployed’ for the entire day. But if he was ‘seeking/ available for work’ for
more than one hour and less than four hours only, he is considered ‘unemployed’ for half a
day and ‘not in labour force’ for the other half of the day; (vi) a person who neither had any
‘work’ to do nor is available for ‘work’ even for half a day is considered ‘not in labour force’
for the entire day and is assigned one or two of the detailed non-economic activity status
depending upon the activities pursued during the reference day.
Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR): LFPR is defined as the number of persons/ person
days in the labour force per 1000 persons /person days. The formula for calculating LFPR is
as follows:
No. of employed persons + No. of unemployed persons

= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ X 1000
Total Population
Work-Force Participation Rate (WFPR) or Worker- Population Ratio (WPR): WFPR or WPR
is defined as the number of persons/person–days employed per thousand persons/person-
days. The formula for calculating WFPR or WPR is as follows:
Number of employed persons

= --------------------------------------- X 1000
Total Population
Age-Specific Worker- Population Ratio (ASWPR): The number of persons employed in a

particular age-group per 1000 persons in that age- group is defined as the age-specific
worker- population ratio (ASWPR)
Proportion Unemployed (PU): PU is defined as the number of persons/person–days

unemployed per thousand persons/ person-days. The formula for calculating PU is as
follows:
Number of Unemployed Persons

= ------------------------------------------- X 1000
Total Population
Unemployment Rate (UR): The Unemployment Rate (UR) is defined as the number of
persons /person days unemployed per thousand persons/person days in the labour force
(which includes both the employed and the unemployed). In effect, this gives the unutilised
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portion of the labour force. Thus, it is a more refined indicator of the unemployment
situation in a population than the proportion of unemployed, which is merely the number of
unemployed per thousand persons in the population as a whole. The formula for calculating
UR is as follows:
Number of Unemployed Persons

= -------------------------------------------------------------------- X 1000
No. of employed persons + No. of unemployed persons
Underemployment: Underemployment is commonly defined as the underutilisation of

labour time of the workers. Some of the persons categorised as usually employed do not
have work throughout the year due to seasonality in work or otherwise and their labour time
is not fully utilised. Thus, they are underemployed. Underemployment is termed visible
underemployment if they report themselves as available for work with respect to the shorter
reference period. The NSS measures the visible underemployment by cross classifying
persons by (a) their usual and current weekly statuses, (b) their usual and current daily
statuses, and (c) their current weekly and current daily statuses.
Some employed persons, particularly the self-employed, may appear to work throughout the
year. But the work they are pursuing may not fully meet their needs in terms of generating
sufficient income, giving fulfilment to them, etc. They may, therefore, want additional
and/or alternative work. Such underemployment is termed as invisible underemployment
and therefore, not directly measurable. The NSS calculates the indicators of invisible
underemployment through a set of probing questions addressed to those categorized as
usually employed on their availability for additional/alternative work and reason(s) for
seeking such additional/alternative work, status of their present engagement (i.e. whether
worked more or less regularly), etc. The proportion of the usually employed who indicate
their availability for additional/alternative work, gives, by and large, an overall share of
the employed who did not have enough work, or at least felt the need for
additional/alternative work, and in that sense, are underemployed.
Occupational Injury: An occupational injury is defined as any personal injury, disease or

death resulting from an occupational accident; an occupational injury is therefore distinct
from an occupational disease, which is a disease contracted as a result of an exposure over a
period of time to risk factors arising from work activity.
Occupational Accident: An occupational accident is an unexpected and unplanned

occurrence, including acts of violence, arising out of or in connection with work which
results in one or more workers incurring a personal injury, disease or death.
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Case of Occupational Injury: A case of occupational injury is the case of one worker
incurring an occupational injury as a result of one occupational accident. An occupational
injury could be fatal (as a result of occupational accidents and where death occurred within
one year of the day of the accident) or non fatal with lost work time.
Incapacity for work: Incapacity for work is the inability of the victim, due to an occupational
injury, to perform the normal duties of work in the job or post occupied at the time of the
occupational accident. Incapacity could be permanent or temporary.
Cases of permanent incapacity: Cases of permanent incapacity for work are cases of
occupational injury where the persons injured were never able to perform again the normal
duties of work in the job or post occupied at the time of the occupational accident causing
the injury.
Cases of temporary incapacity: Cases of temporary incapacity are cases of occupational

injury where the workers injured were unable to work from the day after the day of the
accident, but were later able to perform again the normal duties of work in the job or post
occupied at the time of the occupational accident causing the injury within a period of one
year from the day of the accident.
Trade Union: A trade union is defined as a workers’ organization, constituted for the
purpose of furthering and defending the interests of workers. Trade union membership is
defined as the total number of workers that belong to a trade union.
Strike: A strike is a temporary work stoppage carried out by one or more groups of workers
with a view to enforcing or resisting demands or expressing grievances, or supporting other
workers in their demands or grievances.
Lockout: A lockout is a total or partial temporary closure of one or more places of

employment, or the hindering of the normal work activities of employees, by one or more
employers with a view to enforcing or resisting demands or expressing grievances, or
supporting other employers in their demands or grievances.
Workers involved in strikes and lockouts: Workers involved in strikes and lockouts
represents the number of workers implicated directly or indirectly at any time during a
strike or lockout, whether the involvement was for the full duration of the strike or lockout
or only part of it. Workers who are unable to work as a result of the secondary effects of
strikes or lockouts should not be included.
Workers directly involved in a strike: Workers directly involved in a strike are those who
participated directly by stopping work.
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Workers indirectly involved in a strike: Workers indirectly involved in a strike are those
employees of the establishments involved, or self-employed workers in the group involved,
who did not participate directly by stopping work but who were prevented from working
because of the strike.
Workers directly involved in a lockout: Workers directly involved in a lockout are those
employees of the establishments involved who were directly concerned by the labour
dispute and who were prevented from working by the lockout.
Workers indirectly involved in a lockout: Workers indirectly involved in a lockout are those
employees of the establishments involved who were not directly concerned by the labour
dispute but who were prevented from working by the lockout.
Days not worked as a result of strikes and lockouts: Days not worked as a result of strikes
and lockouts represent the total number of working days not worked as a result of strikes
and lockouts in progress during the year. It is measured in terms of the sum of the actual
working days during which work would normally have been carried out by each worker
involved had there been no stoppage.
Labour inspectors: Labour inspectors are public officials or other authorities who are
responsible for three key labour inspection activities: a) securing the enforcement of the legal
provisions relating to conditions of work and the protection of workers while engaged in
their work, such as provisions relating to hours, wages, safety, health and welfare, the
employment of children and young persons, and other connected matters, in so far as such
provisions are enforceable by labour inspectors; b) supplying technical information and
advice to employers and workers concerning the most effective means of complying with the
legal provisions; c) bringing to the notice of the competent authority defects or abuses not
specifically covered by existing legal provisions. Labour inspectors have the authority to
initiate processes that may lead to legal action.
Labour inspection visits: Labour inspection visits refer to a physical presence of a labour
inspector in a work place for the purpose of carrying out a labour inspection and which is
duly documented as required by national legislation.
Work Place: A work place can be defined as any physical space, whether a physical
construction (such as a building or set of buildings) or not, in which at least one employed
person carries out their work activities.
Enterprise: An enterprise is an undertaking which is engaged in the production and/ or

distribution of some goods and/ or services meant mainly for the purpose of sale, whether
fully or partly. An enterprise may be owned and operated by a single household or by
several households jointly, or by an institutional body.
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Non-agricultural enterprise: All enterprises covered under Sections ‘C’ to ‘S’ of NIC-2008
are "non-agricultural enterprises" (cf Appendix).
Unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises: Non-agricultural enterprises which are not

incorporated (i.e. registered under Companies Act, 1956). Further, the domain of
unincorporated enterprises’ excluded (a) enterprises registered under Sections 2m(i) and
2m(ii) of the Factories Act, 1948 or bidi and cigar manufacturing enterprises registered under
bidi and cigar workers (condition of employment) Act, 1966, (b) government/public sector
enterprises and (c) cooperatives. Thus the coverage was restricted primarily to all household
proprietary and partnership enterprises. In addition, Self Help groups (SHGs), Private Non-
Profit Institutions (NPIs) including Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH) and
Trusts are also included.
Manufacturing Enterprise: A manufacturing enterprise is a unit engaged in the physical or

chemical transformation of materials, substances or components into new products. It covers
units working for other concerns on materials supplied by them. The units primarily
engaged in maintenance and repair of industrial, commercial and similar machinery and
equipment, which are, in general, classified in the same class of manufacturing as those
specialising in manufacturing the goods are also included. The activity of cotton ginning,
cleaning and baling also included here. However, the productions of goods for the sole
purpose of domestic consumption are not considered as manufacturing.
Trading Enterprise: A trading enterprise is an undertaking engaged in trade. Trade is defined

to be an act of purchase of goods and their disposal by way of sale without any intermediate
physical transformation of the goods. The activities of intermediaries who do not actually
purchase or sell goods but only arrange their purchase and sale and earn remuneration by
way of brokerage and commission are also treated as trade. The purchase and sale agents,
brokers and auctioneers are also covered here.
Servicing Enterprise: A servicing enterprise or service sector enterprise is engaged in

activities carried out for the benefit of a consuming unit and typically consists of changes in
the condition of consuming units realized by the activities of servicing unit at the demand of
the consuming unit. It is possible for a unit to produce a service for its own consumption
provided that the type of activity is such that it could have been carried out by another unit.
Some examples of changes that a producer of service brings about in the condition of
consumers of service are:
a) Changes in the condition of consumer’s goods: the producer works directly on goods
owned by the consumer by transporting, cleaning, repairing or otherwise transforming
them;
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b) Changes in the physical condition of persons: the producer transports the persons,
provides them with accommodation, provides them with medical or surgical treatments,
improves their appearance etc;
c) Changes in the mental condition of persons: the producer provides education,
information, advice, entertainment or similar services;
d) Changes in the general economic state of the institutional unit itself: the producer
provides insurance, financial intermediation, protection, guarantees, etc.
All activities under NIC –2008 Sections D – U except section G(trade) (cf Appendix) are
considered as service activities other than trade. However, sections D (Electricity, gas, steam
and air conditioning supply), F(Construction), O(Public administration and defence;
compulsory social security), T(Activities of households as employer; undifferentiated goods
and services producing activities of households for own use) and U(Activities of
extraterritorial organisations and bodies) are remain outside the coverage. Only
unincorporated enterprises in the service sector under coverage are surveyed. Among these
also, activities under certain NIC - 2008 codes, viz. 36 (water collection, treatment and
supply), 491 (transport via railways), 49212 (urban or suburban tramways), 49213 (urban or
suburban underground or elevated railways), 493 (transport via pipeline), 51 (air transport),
641 (monetary intermediation), 642 (activities of holding companies), 6611 (Administration
of financial markets), 774 (Leasing of nonfinancial intangible assets), 942 (activities of trade
unions), 9491 (activities of religious organisations [although activities of individuals are
covered] ), 9492 (activities of political organisations) are also not included here.
Own-account Enterprise: An enterprise, which is run without any hired worker employed
on a fairly regular basis, is termed as an own account enterprise.
Establishment: An enterprise which is employing at least one hired worker on a fairly

regular basis is termed as establishment. Paid or unpaid apprentices, paid household
member/servant/resident worker in an enterprise are considered as hired workers.
Non-directory establishment (NDE): An establishment having one to five workers

(household and hired taken together) is termed as a non-directory establishment.
Directory establishment (DE): A directory establishment is an establishment, which has got

six or more workers (household and hired taken together).
Worker: A worker was defined as all persons working within the premises of the enterprise
who are in the payroll of the enterprise as also the working owners and unpaid family
workers. The worker may serve the enterprise in any capacity - primary or supervisory.
He/she may or may not receive wages/salaries in return to his/her work incidental to or
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connected with the entrepreneurial activity. Salespersons appointed by an enterprise for

selling its services and apprentices, paid or unpaid are also treated as workers.
Formal hired worker: A formal hired worker is one having continuity of job and eligible for
paid annual leave and also eligible for social security benefits like provident fund or
insurance provided by the employer.
Informal hired worker: An informal hired worker is not having continuity of job and/or not
eligible for paid annual leave and/or not eligible for social security benefits like provident
fund or insurance provided by the employer.
Compensation of employees: Compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash

or in kind, payable by an enterprise to an employee in return for work done by the employee
during the accounting period. It is recorded on accrual basis, i.e. measured by the value of
remuneration in cash or in kind which an employee becomes entitled to receive from an
employer in respect of work done during the relevant period, whether paid in advance,
simultaneously or in arrears. Self employed persons (like working owners or unpaid family
workers) receive mixed income and not compensation of employees. However, the books of
accounts of some enterprises show salary payment to one or two working owners. In such
cases, these payments are recorded as compensation to employee. Compensation of
employees has two main components, i) wages and salaries payable in cash or in kind and ii)
value of social contributions payable by the employer. Wages and salaries also included
goods or services provided to employees as remuneration in kind instead of, or in addition
to, remuneration in cash.
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Chapter 1: Population and Household
Table 1.1: Distribution of Population by sex and by age group in West Bengal as per Census 2011
Age-group Rural Urban Total

Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
0-4 2770164 2662779 5432943 973698 926502 1900200 3743862 3589281 7333143
5-9 3085358 2963285 6048643 1131405 1067761 2199166 4216763 4031046 8247809
10-14 3401028 3276066 6677094 1276478 1202951 2479429 4677506 4479017 9156523
15-19 3359604 3083091 6442695 1342721 1272615 2615336 4702325 4355706 9058031
20-24 3062672 2980049 6042721 1359958 1355643 2715601 4422630 4335692 8758322
25-29 2723495 2631501 5354996 1321409 1321504 2642913 4044904 3953005 7997909
30-34 2255183 2197087 4452270 1209476 1179844 2389320 3464659 3376931 6841590
35-39 2306077 2290624 4596701 1217284 1198661 2415945 3523361 3489285 7012646
40-44 2100597 1924134 4024731 1119007 1009322 2128329 3219604 2933456 6153060
45-49 1807534 1614943 3422477 1006678 906564 1913242 2814212 2521507 5335719
50-54 1469321 1224592 2693913 847911 716056 1563967 2317232 1940648 4257880
55-59 1086200 962669 2048869 660703 559078 1219781 1746903 1521747 3268650
60-64 881516 864930 1746446 524885 474123 999008 1406401 1339053 2745454
65-69 625865 654549 1280414 365415 337164 702579 991280 991713 1982993
70-74 421658 455273 876931 265223 248453 513679 686881 703726 1390607
75-79 217061 238972 456033 143155 140579 283734 360216 379551 739767
80+ 245245 291610 536855 161291 185415 346706 406536 477025 883561
Age not stated 26367 22014 48381 37385 26685 64070 63752 48699 112451
All ages 31844945 30338168 62183113 14964082 14128920 29093002 46809027 44467088 91276115
Source: Census 2011
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Table 1.2: Per 1000 distribution of estimated number of persons by age-group during 2011-12
Sector age group in years
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 & total
above
Rural-Male
West Bengal 80 99 119 104 72 76 81 78 70 67 46 35 28 46 1000
All - India 87 112 125 108 81 72 67 71 64 58 41 34 32 48 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 87 95 105 94 92 90 83 91 60 51 42 32 27 52 1000
All - India 89 104 111 94 84 82 79 82 61 53 40 36 34 50 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 83 97 112 99 82 83 82 84 65 59 44 33 27 49 1000
All - India 88 108 118 101 83 77 73 76 62 55 41 35 33 49 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 53 65 99 94 89 83 77 74 83 69 50 46 41 77 1000
All - India 73 88 106 104 98 90 81 79 66 63 42 35 29 47 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 47 68 82 89 90 81 90 98 69 69 62 46 40 69 1000
All - India 72 85 95 91 99 94 88 85 65 59 44 36 33 53 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 50 67 91 91 90 82 83 85 76 69 56 46 40 73 1000
All - India 73 86 101 98 99 92 84 82 65 61 43 35 31 50 1000
Source: NSS Report No. KI-68

Table 1.3: Number of female headed (fh.) households (hhs) per 1000 households, sex-ratio and average household
size by sex of the head of household
Sector Rural Urban

Average hh size Sex ratio Average hh size Sex ratio
No of fh.
No of fh.
1000 hhs
1000 hhs
hhs per
hhs per
fh. hhs All hhs fh. hhs All hhs fh. hhs All hhs fh. hhs All hhs
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 103 3.2 4.1 1798 978 144 3.4 3.7 1590 900
All - India 115 3.3 4.5 1819 957 124 3.2 4.0 1749 922
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 98 2.8 4.0 1936 902 135 3.1 3.7 1819 936
All - India 118 3.2 4.6 1785 947 116 3.1 4.1 1808 909
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 90 3.2 4.7 1714 972 121 3.8 4.1 1445 915
All - India 113 3.4 4.8 1771 962 111 3.5 4.3 1599 920
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 78 3.4 5.0 1886 975 115 3.1 4.1 1806 935
All - India 104 3.5 5.0 1820 959 94 3.5 4.5 1721 915
Source: NSS Report No. 554,537,515(part-1),458(part-1)

Table 1.4(a): Per 1000 distribution of rural households by household type during 2011-12
Sector Self-employed in Regular wage Casual labour Others

salary earnings Agri. labour hhs. Non-agri labour hhs.
Agriculture Non-agriculture
West Bengal 189 221 78 338 132 42
All - India 343 155 96 210 135 61
Source: NSS Report No. 554
Table 1.4(b): Per 1000 distribution of rural households by household type during 1993-94 to 2009-10
Sector Self-employed hhs. Agri. labour hhs. Other labour hhs. Other hhs.
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 180 227 387 113 92
All - India 319 155 256 148 122
Year:2007-08
West Bengal 202 222 352 112 111
All - India 350 144 266 115 125
Year:2005-06
West Bengal 235 243 310 97 115
All - India 340 163 254 120 122
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 269 215 326 89 101
All - India 359 158 258 109 116
Year: 2004
West Bengal 264 224 273 124 114
All - India 353 153 254 120 120

Table 1.4(b) (contd.): Per 1000 distribution of rural households by household type during 1993-94 to 2009-10
Year:2002
West Bengal 261 228 353 71 86
All - India 341 154 285 97 124
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 214 223 382 55 124
All - India 327 134 322 80 137
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 272 197 326 103 102
All - India 378 127 303 80 112
Source: NSS Report No. 537, 531,522,515(part-1),506, 484, 458(part-1),409
Table 1.5: Per 1000 distribution of urban households by household type
Sector Self-employed hhs. Regular wage/salaried hhs. Casual labour hhs. Other hhs.
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 379 375 122 123
All - India 353 417 118 112
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 386 374 120 120
All - India 347 397 135 121
Year:2007-08
West Bengal 388 403 108 101
All - India 366 409 130 95
Year:2005-06
West Bengal 355 418 150 77
All - India 357 420 124 99

Table 1.5 (contd.): Per 1000 distribution of urban households by household type
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 373 403 131 93
All - India 375 413 118 94
Year:2004
West Bengal 381 383 137 99
All - India 367 406 122 104
Year: 2002
West Bengal 380 427 102 89
All - India 365 403 112 118
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 372 418 110 100
All - India 344 417 140 97
Year:1993-94
West Bengal 303 504 118 75
All - India 337 434 132 97
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 531,522,515(part-1), 506,484(part-`1), 458(part-1),409
Table 1.6(a): Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by household type during 2011-12
Sector Self-employed in Regular wage Casual labour Others

salary earnings Agri. labour hhs. Non-agri labour hhs.
West Bengal 194 230 79 338 134 23
All - India 376 166 93 193 137 35

Table 1.6(b): Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by household type during 1993-94 to 2009-10
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 198 234 380 116 72
All - India 355 164 238 148 94
Year:2007-08
West Bengal 218 228 351 116 87
All - India 390 152 251 113 94
Year:2005-06
West Bengal 272 250 298 92 87
All - India 384 170 236 118 92
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 295 221 322 86 77
All - India 398 167 241 106 88
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 239 229 366 51 113
All - India 371 139 301 76 114
Year:1993-94
West Bengal 308 204 303 95 90
All - India 424 131 275 75 95
Source: NSS Report No. 537, 531,522,515(Part-1), 458(Part-1), 409

Table 1.7: Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by household type during 1993-94 to 2011-12
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 440 374 119 68
All - India 415 400 126 59
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 448 372 110 69
All - India 406 385 142 66
Year:2007-08
West Bengal 435 384 118 83
All - India 426 390 131 53
Year:2005-06
West Bengal 397 408 144 50
All - India 418 404 124 54
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 417 403 122 57
All - India 433 396 118 52
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 416 413 144 26
All - India 393 402 141 63
Year:1993-94
West Bengal 357 479 111 53
All - India 388 428 129 55
Source: NSS Report No. 554,537, 531,522,515(Part-1), 458(Part-1),409

Table 1.8(a): Per 1000 distribution of rural households over decile classes of population by monthly per capita
expenditure (MPCE) during 2011-12
Sector Year: 2011-12

Decile class
0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90-100 all
West Bengal 82 83 85 89 99 100 107 111 121 124 1000
All - India 77 80 85 93 95 102 106 109 120 134 1000
Source: NSS Report No.554
Table 1.8(b): Per 1000 distribution of rural households by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
2005-06

Monthly per capita expenditure class ( in Rs.)
000- 235- 270- 320- 365- 410- 455- 510- 580- 690- 890- 1155 & All
235 270 320 365 410 455 510 580 690 890 1150 above Classes
West Bengal 35 34 101 95 105 104 143 98 111 86 51 37 1000
All - India 46 40 79 87 103 91 115 96 118 112 63 50 1000

Table 1.8(c): Per 1000 distribution of rural households by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
1999-2002
Sector Monthly per capita expenditure class ( in Rs.)

000- 225- 255- 300- 340- 380- 420- 470- 525- 615- 775- 950 & All
225 255 300 340 380 420 470 525 615 775 950 more
Year: 2002
West Bengal 19 20 62 93 95 85 148 109 146 115 59 50 1000
All - India 29 29 62 75 83 86 102 100 125 133 74 98 1000
Year: 2001-02
West Bengal 28 34 51 66 71 99 94 169 149 112 79 49 1000
All - India 52 30 97 81 98 83 90 82 106 118 81 81 1000
Year: 2000-01
West Bengal 52 23 81 78 108 106 106 101 136 121 42 45 1000
All - India 41 41 79 79 96 91 103 93 112 128 61 77 1000
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 64 58 101 125 125 124 111 87 87 72 23 23 1000

All - India 73 55 92 107 104 95 100 91 97 90 44 52 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 484,481,476,458p-1

Table 1.9(a): Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
2005-06
Sector Monthly Per Capita Expenditure Class ( in Rs.)

000- 235- 270- 320- 365- 410- 455- 510- 580- 690- 890- 1155 & All
235 270 320 365 410 455 510 580 690 890 1150 above Classes
West Bengal 46 40 113 113 112 106 142 94 99 69 39 27 1000
All - India 57 47 95 97 113 99 114 95 108 94 48 33 1000
Table 1.9(b): Per 1000 distribution of rural persons by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
1999-2002
000- 225- 255- 300- 340- 380- 420- 470- 525- 615- 775- 950 & All
225 255 300 340 380 420 470 525 615 775 950 more
Year: 2002
West Bengal 23 25 72 109 103 93 145 107 136 104 47 37 1000
All - India 36 36 74 88 94 94 107 100 119 120 61 71 1000
Year: 2001-02
West Bengal 22 45 62 78 81 112 93 152 144 109 65 35 1000
All - India 67 35 116 93 106 86 92 77 103 100 66 59 1000
Year: 2000-01
West Bengal 74 29 94 84 108 104 109 91 132 101 40 35 1000
All - India 49 51 92 91 102 94 106 94 105 111 50 54 1000
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 69 68 132 136 128 117 106 73 78 60 19 15 1000
All - India 79 63 118 116 110 97 99 80 90 77 36 34 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 484,481,476,458p-1

Table 1.10(a): Per 1000 distribution of urban households over decile classes of population by monthly per capita
expenditure (MPCE) during 2011-12
Sector Decile Class

0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90-100 all
West Bengal 73 84 79 89 93 105 112 113 123 130 1000
All - India 70 79 83 87 93 99 104 116 127 142 1000
Table 1.10(b): Per 1000 distribution of urban households by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
2005-06

000- 335- 395- 485- 580- 675- 790- 930- 1100- 1380- 1880- 2540 & All
335 395 485 580 675 790 930 1100 1380 1880 2540 Above
West Bengal 22 22 64 87 85 75 110 145 107 98 90 95 1000
All - India 36 22 58 96 98 89 110 129 120 115 71 56 1000

Table 1.10(c): Per 1000 distribution of urban households by Monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
1999-2002

000- 300- 350- 425- 500- 575- 665- 775- 915- 1120- 1500- 1925-& All
300 350 425 500 575 665 775 915 1120 1500 1925 more
Year: 2002
West Bengal 15 24 45 66 94 77 101 94 148 134 81 120 1000
All - India 19 21 56 62 89 80 88 92 127 143 91 132 1000
Year: 2001-02
West Bengal 18 20 42 81 61 84 101 116 144 178 57 97 1000
All - India 34 29 60 76 75 82 98 99 117 148 75 107 1000
Year: 2000-01
West Bengal 7 13 40 26 45 75 61 71 134 210 109 208 1000
All - India 33 35 65 77 77 91 98 96 117 135 74 103 1000
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 41 32 82 92 96 102 107 105 110 119 64 49 1000
All - India 55 48 91 90 96 98 100 97 106 110 55 54 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 484,481,476,458(Part-1)
Table 1.11(a): Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
2005-06

000- 335- 395- 485- 580- 675- 790- 930- 1100- 1380- 1880- 2540 & All
335 395 485 580 675 790 930 1100 1380 1880 2540 Above Classes
West Bengal 28 30 86 108 95 85 108 119 108 92 74 66 1000
All - India 48 29 74 116 110 97 115 117 108 95 55 35 1000

Table 1.11(b): Per 1000 distribution of urban persons by monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) class during
1999-2002

000- 300- 350- 425- 500- 575- 665- 775- 915- 1120- 1500- 1925-& All
300 350 425 500 575 665 775 915 1120 1500 1925 more
Year: 2002
West Bengal 16 32 62 85 99 89 113 95 136 116 63 93 1000
All - India 24 31 77 78 100 88 101 98 121 117 73 91 1000
Year: 2001-02
West Bengal 32 28 54 121 66 96 109 122 120 132 46 73 1000
All - India 43 38 81 93 89 91 104 104 106 121 59 73 1000
Year: 2000-01
West Bengal 21 41 91 118 83 109 132 82 102 95 60 66 1000
All - India 46 46 86 94 88 103 103 95 107 110 54 68 1000
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 56 43 101 120 99 111 102 98 89 93 56 33 1000
All - India 77 62 107 113 103 105 98 89 88 82 82 41 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 484,481,476,458(Part-1)
Table 1.12: Per 1000 distribution of rural households by type of land owned
Sector without owned land with owned land

Homestead only
Homestead and other land Other land only
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 65 361 570 4
All - India 61 300 634 6

Table 1.13: Per 1000 distribution of rural households by size class of land owned
Sector size class of land possessed (hectare)
0.00 0.001-0.004 0.005-0.40 0.41-1.00 1.01-2.00 2.01-4.00 4.01-Above
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 68 51 748 98 28 6 1
All - India 60 95 480 167 109 63 27
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 39 86 736 104 28 6 1
All - India 53 105 467 174 103 69 30
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 84 43 640 160 56 15 2
All - India 66 96 428 186 117 72 35
Source: NSS Report No. 554,537, 515(Part-1)

Table 1.14: Average area of land possessed and per 1000 distribution of rural households by size class of land
possessed
Sector Average Area of land

size class of land possessed (hectare)
possessed (hectare) per
fh. hhs. all hhs. 0.00 0.001-0.004 .005-0.40 0.41-1.00 1.01-2.00 2.01-4.00 4.01-Above
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 0.11 0.17 30 66 766 102 29 7 0
All - India 0.28 0.65 34 113 487 165 110 64 28
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 0.08 0.18 80 93 687 106 26 6 2
All - India 0.31 0.65 83 117 448 161 97 65 30
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 0.17 0.31 17 62 664 179 60 15 2
All - India 0.37 0.77 22 123 438 187 120 75 36
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 0.16 0.32 49 721 150 58 19 3
All - India 0.42 0.81 72 510 191 115 73 39
Source: NSS Report No. 554,537, 515(Part-1),458 (PART-1)

Table 1.15: Per 1000 distribution of rural households by size class of land cultivated
Sector size class of land cultivated (0.00 hectare)

0.00 0.01-0.004 0.005-0.40 0.41-1.00 1.01-2.00 2.01-4.00 4.01 & above
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 644 3 240 81 24 6 2
All - India 474 6 198 142 103 54 24
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 606 9 262 97 22 3 1
All - India 454 8 203 155 95 61 25
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 474 2 312 149 51 11 1
All - India 428 3 190 171 113 65 30
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 498 298 136 50 16 2
All - India 409 223 168 112 59 30
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515(Part-1), 458 (Part-1)
Table 1.16: Per 1000 distribution of rural households by use of hired labour for crop production
Sector use of hired labour

regular during peak season only casual no labour hhs.with no crop production total
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 68 231 49 223 429 1000
All - India 36 204 89 277 394 1000

Table 1.17: Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by broad groups of industry
Broad groups of industry

Principal Status Principal Status+ Subsidiary Status
Sector Primary Secondary Tertiary Primary Secondary Tertiary
(NIC-01 -05) (NIC-10 – 45) (NIC-50-99) (NIC-01 –05) (NIC-10 –45) (NIC-50- 99)
Year: 2011-12
Rural- Male
West Bengal 568.5 229.3 202.2
All-India 593.6 219.9 186.5
Rural- Female
West Bengal 416.9 451.4 131.7
All-India 749.4 167.4 83.2
Rural- Persons
West Bengal 532.1 282.6 185.3
All-India 641.0 203.9 155.1
Urban- Male
West Bengal 25.6 406.1 568.3
All-India 56.4 352.5 591.1
Urban- Female
West Bengal 16.1 440.6 543.3
All-India 109.1 339.7 551.2
Urban- Persons
West Bengal 23.7 394.5 581.8
All-India 66.9 349.9 583.2

Table 1.17(contd.): Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by broad groups of industry

Sector
Primary Secondary Tertiary Primary Secondary Tertiary
(NIC-01 -05) (NIC-10 – 45) (NIC-50-99) (NIC-01 –05) (NIC-10 –45) (NIC-50– 99)
Year: 2009-10
Rural- Male
West Bengal 591 195 214 594 195 211
All-India 625 195 180 628 193 179
Rural- Female
West Bengal 420 338 242 424 397 179
All-India 789 121 90 794 130 76
Rural- Persons
West Bengal 571 212 217 563 232 205
All-India 668 176 156 679 174 147
Urban- Male
West Bengal 34 337 629 34 336 630
All-India 59 348 593 60 346 594
Urban- Female
West Bengal 45 291 664 48 361 591
All-India 118 316 566 139 333 528
Urban- Persons
West Bengal 36 331 633 36 341 623
All-India 69 343 588 75 344 581


Sector
(NIC-01 -05) (NIC-10 – 45) (NIC-50-99) (NIC-01 –05) (NIC-10 –45) (NIC-50–99)
Year: 2007-08
Rural- Male
West Bengal 598 187 215 598 186 216
All-India 662 164 174 665 163 173
Rural -Female
West Bengal 499 278 223 499 346 155
All-India 816 103 81 835 97 68
Rural -Persons
West Bengal 586 199 216 579 216 204
All-India 705 147 148 722 141 138
Urban-Male
West Bengal 27 364 609 28 361 611
All-India 58 345 597 58 344 597
Urban-Female
West Bengal 11 231 758 24 357 620
All-India 129 305 567 153 322 525
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 24 345 631 27 360 613
All-India 69 339 592 76 340 584


Sector
Year: 2005-06
Rural Male
West Bengal 591 190 218 594 189 217
All-India 648 167 185 652 165 183
Rural Female
West Bengal 382 384 235 441 414 146
All-India 798 121 82 813 120 68
Rural Persons
West Bengal 561 218 221 557 244 199
All-India 691 154 156 708 149 143
Urban Male
West Bengal 50 389 561 49 387 563
All-India 62 345 594 63 343 594
Urban Female
West Bengal 33 286 682 34 333 634
All-India 123 313 564 148 330 522
Urban Persons
West Bengal 47 373 580 46 377 576
All-India 72 339 589 80 341 580


Sector
Year:2004
Rural- Male
West Bengal 607 179 214 607 178 215
All-India 654 163 183 659 160 180
Rural- Female
West Bengal 535 257 209 591 272 137
All-India 820 102 78 841 94 65
Rural- Persons
West Bengal 598 188 213 604 197 199
All-India 703 145 152 724 136 139
Urban- Male
West Bengal 31 339 631 31 334 634
All-India 61 348 591 63 347 590
Urban- Female
West Bengal 18 176 806 15 215 769
All-India 126 289 584 161 309 530
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 28 312 659 28 312 660
All-India 72 338 589 83 339 578


Sector
Year: 2002
Rural Male
West Bengal 672 133 195 674 130 196
All-India 685 140 138 688 138 175
Rural Female
West Bengal 610 212 238 638 238 178
All-India 834 91 75 849 87 65
Rural Persons
West Bengal 664 143 193 667 150 182
All-India 726 126 148 740 121 138
Urban Male
West Bengal 32 361 608 31 357 611
All-India 69 338 594 70 337 593
Urban Female
West Bengal 10 328 662 18 319 663
All-India 156 298 546 171 315 513
Urban Persons
West Bengal 28 356 616 29 351 620
All-India 83 331 586 90 333 578


Sector
Year: 2001-02
Rural Male
West Bengal 630 159 212 631 155 214
All-India 672 148 180 678 145 177
Rural Female
West Bengal 448 372 180 484 378 138
All-India 819 124 57 840 109 51
Rural Persons
West Bengal 605 187 207 604 197 200
All-India 716 141 143 736 132 132
Urban Male
West Bengal 37 351 612 37 352 611
All-India 78 322 601 78 321 600
Urban Female
West Bengal 25 266 710 27 286 688
All-India 173 309 519 211 332 457
Urban Persons
West Bengal 36 340 624 36 342 622
All-India 92 320 588 103 323 574


Sector
Year: 2000-01
Rural Male
West Bengal 541 190 270 548 187 265
All-India 688 137 175 690 136 174
Rural –Female
West Bengal 427 468 105 477 435 88
All-India 812 139 49 818 133 49

Rural - Persons
West Bengal 522 236 242 533 241 227
All-India 723 137 140 732 135 132
Urban Male
West Bengal 27 401 572 27 399 574
All-India 63 359 579 66 356 578
Urban Female
West Bengal 25 452 523 30 469 501
All-India 136 342 522 183 342 475
Urban Persons
West Bengal 27 410 563 28 410 563
All-India 75 356 569 88 354 558


Sector
(NIC-01 -05) (NIC-10 – 45) (NIC-50 99) (NIC-01 –05) (NIC-10 –45) (NIC-50– 99)
Year: 1995-96
Rural Male
West Bengal 730 113 158 735 109 156
All-India 746 115 139 748 114 137
Rural Female
West Bengal 576 296 129 673 232 95
All-India 854 87 59 868 80 52
Rural Persons
West Bengal 710 135 154 723 134 145
All-India 777 107 117 788 102 110
Urban Male
West Bengal 33 405 562 34 403 564
All-India 81 335 584 82 335 583
Urban Female
West Bengal 37 269 694 49 294 658
All-India 179 310 512 209 309 482
Urban Persons
West Bengal 34 389 577 36 388 576
All-India 96 331 572 104 331 565

Table 1.18: Number of households with no literate member/literate female member of age 15 yrs. and above per
1000 households
Sector Rural Urban

no literate member no literate female member no literate member no literate female
member
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 228 418 72 137
All - India 261 500 84 195
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 274 508 119 310
All - India 321 609 119 341
Year:1993-94
West Bengal 307 560 122 376
All - India 370 678 143 397
Source: NSS Report No. 515 (Part-1), 458, 409

Table 1.19: Per 1000 distribution of households having at least one member of age 15 years and above by number
of usually employed (PS+SS) persons of age 15 years and above as members of household
Sector number of usually employed (15 +)

none only 1 male only 1 female only 1 male & 1 female others
all fh. hhs. all fh. hhs. all fh. hhs. all fh. hhs. all fh. hhs.
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 41 243 467 147 39 337 208 123 245 150
All - India 50 250 361 75 47 366 245 123 297 186
Urban
West Bengal 113 274 469 186 41 205 140 119 237 216
All - India 96 311 506 138 39 259 135 107 223 186
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 28 183 392 114 33 315 201 152 345 237
All - India 48 220 290 65 42 328 234 124 386 263
Urban
West Bengal 95 278 524 204 33 195 116 91 231 233
All - India 98 330 490 148 33 234 127 90 253 200
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537

Table 1.20: Per 1000 distribution of rural males and females by educational level
Sector General education level

no literate literate & upto primary middle Secondary & above
Year: 2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 282 436 139 141
All - India 284 355 155 205
Rural-Female
West Bengal 398 391 129 80
All - India 445 317 116 121
Rural-Person
West Bengal 339 414 135 111
All - India 362 337 136 164
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 264 458 143 134
All - India 294 357 160 188
Rural-Female
West Bengal 389 429 111 68
All - India 467 318 111 103
Rural-Person
West Bengal 323 445 128 103
All - India 378 338 136 147

Table 1.20 (contd.): Per 1000 distribution of rural males and females by educational level

Year: 2007-08
Rural-Male
West Bengal 257 402 179 162
All - India 285 273 207 235
Rural-Female
West Bengal 420 358 136 86
All - India 533 218 130 119
Rural-Person
West Bengal 337 381 158 124
All - India 409 246 169 176
Year:2005-06
Rural-Male
West Bengal 272 399 160 169
All - India 303 277 202 218
Rural-Female
West Bengal 477 318 139 66
All - India 567 200 129 104
Rural-Person
West Bengal 372 360 150 118
All - India 433 239 166 162
Source: NSS Report No.554, 537, 531,522

Table 1.21: Per 1000 distribution of urban males and females by educational level

Year: 2011-12
Urban-Male
West Bengal 138 326 143 392
All - India 158 279 146 416
Urban-Female
West Bengal 201 287 172 337
All - India 253 271 135 340
Urban-Person
West Bengal 168 308 157 366
All - India 204 275 141 379
Year: 2009-10
Urban-Male
West Bengal 138 345 136 381
All - India 164 274 150 411
Urban-Female
West Bengal 214 330 135 319
All - India 264 270 136 328
Urban-Person
West Bengal 175 338 136 351
All - India 211 272 143 371
Source: NSS Report No.554, 537

Chapter 2: Labour Force
Table 2.1: Labour Force participation rates by sex according to usual, current weekly and current daily
statuses
Sector male female persons

usual status Weekly Daily usual Weekly Daily usual status Weekly Daily
status status status status status status status
ps ps+ss ps ps+ss ps ps+ss
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 594 602 591 573 112 194 173 132 356 400 384 355
All - India 547 553 545 534 181 253 215 180 368 406 383 361
Urban
West Bengal 621 630 626 615 138 186 177 148 392 419 413 394
All - India 560 563 561 555 134 155 148 136 356 367 363 354
Year:2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 609 619 618 596 96 156 144 104 366 393 399 363
All - India 548 556 548 536 208 265 231 197 382 414 394 371
Urban
West Bengal 601 605 603 595 119 151 145 123 368 386 382 367
All - India 556 559 556 550 128 146 141 129 352 362 358 350
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 581 587 580 555 111 184 159 118 349 389 372 340
All - India 546 555 545 531 249 333 287 237 401 446 418 387
Urban
West Bengal 623 630 626 615 120 169 165 136 383 410 405 386
All - India 566 570 566 561 148 178 168 150 366 382 375 364

Table 2.1(contd.): Labour Force participation rates by sex according to usual, current weekly and current
daily statuses

usual status Weekly Daily usual Weekly Daily usual status Weekly Daily
status status status status status status status
Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 543 549 544 526 121 165 151 115 335 359 350 323
All - India 533 540 531 515 235 302 263 220 387 423 400 370
Urban
West Bengal 608 612 610 602 115 129 127 112 370 378 377 365
All - India 539 542 539 528 126 147 138 123 342 354 347 335
Year: 1993-1994
Rural
West Bengal 554 567 555 544 88 189 150 108 326 382 357 331
All - India 549 561 547 534 237 330 276 232 397 449 415 387
Urban
West Bengal 583 587 586 581 129 167 164 142 374 393 391 379
All - India 538 543 538 532 132 165 152 132 345 363 355 343
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515 (part 1), 458,409

Table 2.2: Labour force participation rates (usual status) for persons of age 15 years and above

Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 839 850 152 264 496 558
All - India 805 813 257 358 533 587
Urban
West Bengal 768 779 170 229 481 515
All - India 760 764 178 205 478 493
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 853 863 128 207 503 546
All - India 816 825 298 378 560 604
Urban
West Bengal 779 783 148 187 469 490
All - India 758 762 171 194 475 488
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 857 866 161 268 516 572
All - India 848 859 371 494 610 677
Urban
West Bengal 784 793 150 210 485 518
All - India 786 792 204 244 507 530

Table 2.2 (contd.): Labour force participation rates (usual status) for persons of age 15 years and above

Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 855 863 178 244 521 558
All - India 846 855 355 547 602 657
Urban
West Bengal 801 805 148 165 492 502
All - India 782 787 179 209 493 510
Year: 1993-1994
Rural
West Bengal 881 897 135 291 515 599
All - India 863 876 351 490 610 686
Urban
West Bengal 810 815 171 219 515 540
All - India 794 801 191 238 507 533
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515 (part 1), 458,409

Table 2.3: District-wise Labour force participation rates (usual status) by residence & sex in West Bengal
during 2009-10
(Per 1000 persons)

Sl. No. District Rural Urban Combined Male Female
1 Darjeeling 434 324 392 557 224
2 Jalpaiguri 356 348 355 572 118
3 Coochbehar 412 346 407 620 193
4 Uttar Dinajpur 381 352 379 555 165
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 349 404 352 611 109
6 Malda 359 382 361 567 134
7 Musrhidabad 407 366 403 602 174
8 Birbhum 392 334 389 610 127
9 Barddhaman 412 355 392 618 162
10 Nadia 425 494 439 652 228
11 North 24 Parganas 411 413 412 641 168
12 Hooghly 392 341 375 632 117
13 Bankura 445 338 438 609 250
14 Purulia 463 408 459 586 306
15 Paschim Medinipore 420 387 417 634 192
16 Howrah 431 429 430 649 194
17 Kolkata xx 384 384 640 108
18 South 24 Parganas 371 380 372 607 105
19 Purba Medinipore 370 388 372 584 145
West Bengal 400 388 397 613 165
Source: District level pooled estimates of Key employment and Unemployment Indicators of West Bengal in 2009-10

Chapter 3: Employed (Work Force)
Table 3.1: Number of persons usually employed in the principal status (ps) and in the principal as well as
subsidiary status (ps+ss) per 1000 persons (WPR) by sex and residence status
Sector WPR
Rural Urban
male female persons male female persons
ps ps+ss ps ps+ss ps ps+ss ps ps+ss ps ps+ss ps ps+ss
Year:2011-12
West Bengal 839 857 155 279 499 570 798 816 170 238 494 536
All - India 808 820 262 372 538 598 778 784 179 210 799 508
Year:2009-10
West Bengal 594 608 91 152 356 392 578 584 106 141 350 370
All - India 537 547 202 261 374 408 539 543 119 138 339 350
Year:2004-05
West Bengal 563 574 102 178 336 379 583 595 103 155 354 384
All - India 535 546 242 327 391 439 541 549 135 166 346 365
Year:1999-2000
West Bengal 524 534 116 160 323 349 561 567 102 117 340 350
All - India 522 531 231 299 380 417 513 518 117 139 324 337
Year:1993-94
West Bengal 538 557 84 185 316 376 538 550 104 143 338 362
All - India 538 553 234 328 390 444 513 521 121 155 327 347
Source: NSS Report No. KI-68, 537, 51 5(part-1), 458 (part-1), 409

Table 3.2(a): Age specific usual principal status worker population ratio during 2011-12
Sector age group (years)

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 & All
above (0+)
Year:2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 0 25 321 745 947 989 989 989 967 980 918 756 461 572
All – India 0 21 273 714 934 980 987 985 985 963 929 810 523 535
Rural-Female
West Bengal 5 29 100 116 130 147 218 192 189 180 179 108 46 107
All – India 1 18 104 183 228 293 346 355 363 335 301 226 111 176
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 3 27 217 396 510 569 579 625 635 602 569 437 242 347
All – India 0 20 196 449 566 617 651 683 695 662 611 515 318 263
Urban-Male
West Bengal 0 190 285 602 833 946 972 978 959 954 905 425 285 589
All – India 0 29 209 579 899 971 985 985 976 940 864 488 279 542
Urban- Female
West Bengal 0 18 79 123 239 174 193 215 180 166 185 47 40 124
All – India 1 6 61 140 199 211 236 237 211 195 153 96 49 125
Urban -Persons
West Bengal 0 117 190 373 557 550 547 652 591 540 562 249 175 369
All - India 1 19 142 366 556 591 612 627 621 574 516 286 162 342

Table 3.2(b)(contd.): Age specific usual principal status worker population ratio during 1993-94 to 2009-10

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
above (0+)
Year:2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 5 60 405 814 971 991 993 990 992 942 917 620 594
All – India 2 27 323 747 952 986 991 992 982 963 929 636 537
Rural-Female
West Bengal 0 25 108 78 119 175 142 145 168 181 78 50 91
All – India 1 21 137 225 299 313 389 389 402 399 331 190 202
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 2 45 280 427 524 604 553 571 617 636 533 325 356
All – India 1 24 241 479 609 638 683 695 705 692 632 414 374
Urban-Male
West Bengal 0 11 243 571 902 962 983 974 982 964 884 297 578
All – India 0 24 223 604 903 972 984 983 976 946 846 335 539
Urban- Female
West Bengal 0 18 63 102 160 188 159 140 151 208 171 42 106
All – India 0 8 61 142 170 192 231 225 207 209 174 61 119
Urban -Persons
West Bengal 0 14 159 337 475 574 565 633 615 611 514 166 350
All - India 0 16 150 382 544 586 611 628 606 618 517 194 339


0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
above (0+)
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 0 61 464 810 954 971 979 978 966 937 907 601 563
All – India 2 54 453 820 956 977 986 979 977 958 924 630 535
Rural-Female
West Bengal 0 29 112 113 154 208 193 184 211 160 83 57 102
All – India 1 49 222 284 367 424 482 475 483 436 394 197 242
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 0 45 295 447 548 560 593 626 611 572 537 339 336
All – India 2 52 346 544 654 681 731 735 744 706 660 412 391
Urban-Male
West Bengal 5 85 262 622 854 948 966 986 953 916 914 319 583
All – India 2 44 314 662 900 965 975 977 965 925 819 355 541
Urban-Female
West Bengal 5 47 124 112 152 155 149 183 138 134 130 34 103
All – India 1 24 92 155 186 236 265 262 227 224 192 86 135
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 5 66 200 392 514 545 565 638 541 576 514 184 354
All - India 1 34 214 425 560 604 626 636 617 597 514 215 346
Source: NSS Report No. 515(part-1)


0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
above (0+)
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 4 68 494 797 939 965 975 989 978 934 889 542 524
All - India 5 82 475 823 942 974 981 981 977 949 919 622 522
Rural-Female
West Bengal 2 81 179 197 197 181 232 178 160 91 140 39 116
All - India 6 74 234 310 373 422 453 462 450 399 351 174 231
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 3 74 343 478 563 561 601 624 619 544 545 281 323
All - India 6 78 364 557 648 687 720 730 723 683 634 399 380
Urban-Male
West Bengal 1 43 296 611 824 929 950 972 963 958 846 355 561
All - India 3 46 303 644 878 958 973 973 968 933 803 386 513
Urban-Female
West Bengal 3 69 78 86 155 149 194 198 196 166 130 25 102
All - India 1 28 87 130 161 198 235 242 234 225 181 82 117
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 2 56 195 354 484 517 600 654 629 597 540 182 340
All - India 2 38 204 401 524 580 611 645 629 616 502 227 324


0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 All
&
Above
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 6 105 577 805 935 978 989 982 981 954 921 816 553 538
All - India 9 112 523 824 947 980 988 985 980 965 936 848 565 538
Rural-Female
West Bengal 2 40 105 117 145 145 192 157 157 149 68 78 27 84
All - India 11 104 264 318 354 407 435 440 438 407 337 256 117 234
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 4 74 355 456 508 576 645 609 559 553 526 448 267 316
All - India 10 108 406 564 638 690 724 714 710 696 633 565 342 390
Urban-Male
West Bengal 2 43 300 355 810 919 975 974 982 959 914 531 252 538
All - India 4 59 337 645 892 961 982 980 971 941 845 556 347 513
Urban-Female
West Bengal 2 63 82 100 141 155 211 192 220 140 117 49 49 104
All - India 3 35 94 136 175 208 233 257 253 240 185 135 66 121
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 2 53 203 321 486 532 636 649 685 604 572 294 152 338
All - India 3 47 227 405 541 600 618 656 648 614 525 345 200 327

Table 3.3(a): Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker population ratio during 2011-12

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60- 65 & All
64 above (0+)
Year:2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 0 33 360 806 972 990 993 989 975 981 926 772 474 586
All – India 0 26 303 742 942 981 989 987 988 966 935 822 534 543
Rural-Female
West Bengal 5 40 158 213 320 348 332 377 274 272 216 160 58 189
All – India 1 28 156 278 357 426 480 482 484 444 393 318 141 248
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 3 36 265 476 623 669 641 710 676 646 591 470 254 390
All – India 0 27 236 510 637 688 721 745 753 715 660 567 339 399
Urban-Male
West Bengal 0 199 332 642 861 950 978 978 959 954 912 433 298 602
All – India 1 33 223 594 906 973 986 985 976 941 868 494 286 546
Urban- Female
West Bengal 0 27 108 172 301 262 273 318 266 220 245 98 42 174
All – India 1 9 78 160 231 248 281 275 244 219 177 115 54 147
Urban -Persons
West Bengal 0 126 229 418 600 596 593 696 632 568 594 277 183 400
All - India 1 22 158 384 575 610 635 646 636 586 529 299 168 355

Table 3.3(b): Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker population ratio during 1993-94 to 2009-10

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
Above (0+)
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 5 87 459 844 974 994 993 990 994 942 917 639 608
All - India 4 44 358 768 957 988 991 993 984 967 933 646 547
Rural-Female
West Bengal 0 44 168 154 255 262 264 204 255 222 151 59 152
All - India 4 35 186 295 391 430 496 498 492 485 411 226 261
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 2 69 336 481 597 647 616 601 657 652 567 339 392
All - India 4 40 282 526 660 700 738 749 749 735 673 437 408
Urban-Male
West Bengal 0 28 262 584 903 968 983 977 982 964 889 306 584
All - India 1 28 231 617 906 973 984 984 977 946 848 341 543
Urban-Female
West Bengal 1 29 106 145 233 274 200 172 194 218 188 54 141
All - India 1 12 76 160 196 231 273 253 229 227 191 70 138
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 0 28 189 365 518 620 586 648 635 616 525 176 370
All - India 1 21 161 398 558 606 632 642 617 626 527 201 350
Source: NSS Report No.: 537

Table 3.3(b) (contd.): Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker population ratio during 1993-94 to
2009-10

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
Above (0+)
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 1 67 502 843 961 978 990 981 973 946 911 616 574
All - India 3 68 497 849 966 981 989 983 981 963 930 644 546
Rural-Female
West Bengal 1 55 174 218 309 362 369 293 309 270 130 84 178
All - India 3 74 319 410 513 584 639 625 615 561 509 253 327
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 1 61 345 517 631 646 685 676 661 628 560 359 379
All - India 3 71 415 623 733 769 812 809 808 769 720 448 439
Urban-Male
West Bengal 5 91 289 668 872 953 966 986 961 916 917 330 595
All - India 2 48 335 684 909 969 977 980 968 931 830 366 549
Urban-Female
West Bengal 20 67 160 256 220 234 235 257 159 180 172 37 155
All - India 3 33 128 201 229 290 328 312 267 258 218 100 166
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 13 79 231 482 556 587 607 670 556 596 537 192 384
All - India 3 41 241 458 586 633 658 661 638 616 532 228 365
Source: NSS Report No.: 515-(Part-1)

Table 3.3(b) (contd.): Age-specific usual principal & subsidiary status worker population ratio during 1993-94 to
2009-10
age group (years)

Sector 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-& All
Above (0+)
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 5 75 530 826 945 971 977 991 980 942 899 550 534
All - India 6 91 503 844 950 979 984 983 980 953 929 639 531
Rural-Female
West Bengal 3 103 272 278 278 267 291 238 190 148 170 46 160
All - India 7 96 304 409 491 555 579 586 566 515 450 218 299
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 4 88 406 535 607 608 632 652 634 574 564 288 349
All - India 7 93 411 618 713 758 784 791 780 741 688 430 417
Urban-Male
West Bengal 1 45 308 636 834 932 954 975 963 958 846 344 567
All - India 3 49 314 658 883 960 975 974 969 935 809 402 518
Urban-Female
West Bengal 3 80 90 109 178 171 213 226 215 186 139 27 117
All - India 2 36 105 155 194 235 285 283 267 262 207 94 139
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 2 62 207 378 500 530 611 668 637 606 544 188 350
All - India 3 43 218 420 543 599 637 664 645 633 517 241 337
Source: NSS Report No.: 458(Part-1)

Table 3.4: Education specific 'worker population ratio' for persons of age 15 years and above according to usual
principal status
Sector not literate & middle secondary higher diploma/ graduate Post Secondary all
literate upto secondary certificate graduate & above
primary course & above
Year: 2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 867 880 782 632 533 810 757 832 639 811
All India 877 886 761 649 583 717 747 810 652 788
Rural-Female
West Bengal 192 138 61 105 88 0 150 483 114 145
All India 300 255 181 153 123 322 213 362 161 250
Rural-Person
West Bengal 450 543 434 418 395 755 584 764 452 479
All India 502 596 524 463 411 613 577 668 474 521
Urban-Male
West Bengal 814 841 746 608 586 556 716 765 653 728
All India 831 842 761 644 571 675 764 840 679 735
Urban-Female
West Bengal 222 179 96 75 103 97 198 310 138 153
All India 199 187 127 91 94 320 221 376 156 167
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 423 557 408 347 369 442 517 555 429 452
All India 400 519 471 398 350 575 544 650 455 459

Table 3.4(contd.): Education specific 'worker population ratio' for persons of age 15 years and above according
to usual principal status
Sector not literate & middle secondary higher diploma/ graduate Post all
literate upto secondary certificate & above graduate &
primary course above
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 898 922 730 635 636 868 792 875 833
All India 871 896 767 682 606 701 754 864 801
Rural-Female
West Bengal 164 95 83 82 81 299 157 483 122
All India 339 301 226 166 132 287 230 374 290
Rural-Person
West Bengal 445 533 470 449 467 704 663 744 489
All India 524 623 556 499 445 585 600 698 549
Urban-Male
West Bengal 825 873 734 636 600 726 763 699 750
All India 814 841 757 664 566 719 769 832 736
Urban-Female
West Bengal 182 137 119 74 56 0 148 365 132
All India 197 174 131 82 77 365 210 344 159
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 396 509 439 365 340 564 539 531 446
All India 395 508 476 413 348 616 542 632 458

diploma/
literate & higher graduate &
Sector not literate middle secondary certificate all
upto primary secondary above
course
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 888 877 758 695 603 736 812 832
All - India 887 887 781 699 664 783 818 830
Rural-Female
West Bengal 186 125 85 85 115 0 155 149
All - India 416 327 253 204 169 396 285 359
Rural-Person
West Bengal 452 549 483 466 462 710 679 497
All - India 583 654 585 527 501 664 685 595
Urban-Male
West Bengal 843 842 702 610 539 675 805 734
All - India 824 851 750 662 591 772 785 752
Urban-Female
West Bengal 186 118 79 69 94 608 196 129
All - India 250 186 117 95 103 423 265 185
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 417 480 414 389 380 662 557 448
All - India 433 536 469 422 388 670 580 480
Source: NSS Report No. 515 (Part-1)

literate & upto graduate &

Sector not literate middle secondary higher secondary all
primary above
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 887 873 743 710 655 713 827
All - India 891 872 752 713 679 802 829
Rural-Female
West Bengal 218 127 68 107 53 238 171
All - India 404 303 205 173 134 269 350
Rural-Person
West Bengal 466 557 480 525 529 626 503
All - India 582 646 561 545 531 686 591
Urban-Male
West Bengal 857 828 706 591 603 763 740
All - India 836 824 725 661 599 797 745
Urban-Female
West Bengal 218 110 71 42 108 188 131
All - India 229 146 99 104 111 252 166
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 448 485 425 342 391 569 452
All - India 429 502 457 436 398 596 468


primary above
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 919 897 748 687 651 785 856
All - India 913 898 735 683 629 792 846
Rural-Female
West Bengal 153 106 58 49 181 83 129
All - India 391 286 177 153 161 293 346
Rural-Person
West Bengal 435 572 502 525 549 672 499
All - India 586 672 559 534 527 709 599
Urban-Male
West Bengal 873 864 668 608 603 778 748
All - India 866 844 713 663 589 807 758
Urban-Female
West Bengal 191 122 65 65 143 233 136
All - India 233 150 91 108 126 282 175
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 436 515 405 388 448 585 466
All - India 442 527 456 442 417 625 481

principal and subsidiary status (all workers)
Sector not literate & middle secondary higher diploma/ graduate Post Secondary all
literate upto secondary certificate graduate & above
primary course & above
Year: 2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 871 888 786 657 686 862 820 891 705 829
All India 880 892 770 668 618 748 769 828 676 800
Rural-Female
West Bengal 304 278 152 183 140 0 251 499 188 258
All India 418 361 276 222 176 408 267 416 223 352
Rural-Person
West Bengal 521 611 481 465 516 802 658 814 521 544
All India 580 648 568 501 453 659 609 697 512 578
Urban-Male
West Bengal 814 850 757 641 623 557 733 771 678 745
All India 832 847 765 651 583 691 771 844 687 741
Urban-Female
West Bengal 298 256 156 118 153 174 239 385 185 214
All India 240 223 158 110 108 344 237 395 173 195
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 473 596 444 385 412 462 543 592 463 490
All India 429 539 488 410 363 592 554 660 467 476

principal and subsidiary status (all workers)
Sector not literate & middle secondary higher diploma/ graduate Postgraduate all
literate upto secondary certificate & above & above
primary course
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 900 926 763 660 709 912 811 943 848
All - India 874 900 784 697 634 730 774 883 812
Rural-Female
West Bengal 245 184 145 153 125 299 220 483 201
All - India 432 384 294 222 183 339 269 407 372
Rural-Person
West Bengal 496 576 514 489 531 736 691 790 535
All - India 586 664 592 529 481 620 626 722 595
Urban-Male
West Bengal 834 876 735 649 614 726 765 707 756
All - India 816 844 760 667 576 730 773 836 740
Urban-Female
West Bengal 226 204 164 87 81 32 193 391 175
All - India 231 206 154 97 94 393 224 365 183
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 429 544 461 378 359 571 557 549 470
All - India 418 526 488 421 361 631 550 643 472
Source: NSS Report No. Source: 537

to usual principal and subsidiary status (all workers)
literate & diploma/

higher graduate
Sector not literate upto middle secondary certificate all
secondary & above
primary course
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 895 886 776 727 657 751 875 848
All - India 892 895 802 732 709 821 851 846
Rural-Female
West Bengal 308 243 158 131 191 0 218 259
All - India 550 449 371 305 252 523 345 485
Rural-Person
West Bengal 531 606 523 503 523 725 742 559
All - India 672 710 642 584 558 729 725 666
Urban-Male
West Bengal 851 845 711 631 583 692 819 748
All - India 831 855 760 673 608 798 795 763
Urban-Female
West Bengal 248 188 135 117 201 608 250 192
All - India 304 234 161 123 129 486 290 227
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 460 516 445 422 446 676 587 485
All - India 472 561 495 441 408 707 595 506
Source: NSS Report No.: 515-(Part-1)

Table 3.5 (contd.): Education specific 'worker population ratio' for persons of age 15 years and above according

primary above
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 890 884 756 725 734 762 840
All - India 895 880 768 737 713 836 841
Rural-Female
West Bengal 298 176 122 128 107 244 237
All - India 513 403 290 257 206 310 452
Rural-Person
West Bengal 517 548 509 542 602 667 543
All - India 653 691 601 587 575 722 647
Urban-Male
West Bengal 857 833 712 595 618 778 747
All - India 839 830 732 668 608 806 752
Urban-Female
West Bengal 242 125 86 64 116 205 149
All - India 271 177 129 124 124 273 197
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 464 495 435 354 402 585 464
All - India 458 520 474 448 409 609 486
Source: NSS Report No.: 458(part-1)


primary above
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 925 912 807 744 733 842 881
All - India 918 909 770 728 686 834 864
Rural-Female
West Bengal 339 223 157 174 262 205 285
All - India 540 416 290 258 234 366 486
Rural-Person
West Bengal 555 629 576 599 631 739 589
All - India 681 727 619 596 587 756 678
Urban-Male
West Bengal 877 871 675 624 635 816 764
All - India 870 850 723 677 607 818 768
Urban-Female
West Bengal 279 173 94 91 162 259 186
All - India 300 203 131 134 147 301 223
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 494 542 421 408 476 619 497
All - India 488 554 479 461 436 639 509

Table 3.6: Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by status of employment
Sector principal status principal & subsidiary status

self employed regular casual self employed regular casual labour
employed labour employed
Year: 2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 427 84 491 432 82 486
All - India 541 102 357 545 100 355
Rural-Female
West Bengal 439 168 393 577 106 323
All - India 535 76 389 593 56 351
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 427 96 477 464 87 446
All - India 540 95 365 559 88 353
Urban-Male
West Bengal 443 377 180 449 375 178
All - India 416 436 149 417 434 149
Urban-Female
West Bengal 347 516 137 460 402 132
All - India 368 487 146 428 428 143
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 428 398 173 450 380 168
All - India 406 444 149 420 434 146

Table 3.6(contd.): Per 1000 distribution of usually employed persons by status of employment

self employed regular casual self employed regular casual labour
employed labour employed
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 450 85 466 452 83 464
All - India 530 87 383 535 85 380
Rural-Female
West Bengal 437 136 427 509 89 403
All - India 503 55 442 557 44 399
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 448 91 461 463 84 453
All - India 523 78 399 542 73 386
Urban-Male
West Bengal 470 374 156 473 371 156
All - India 409 420 171 411 419 170
Urban-Female
West Bengal 417 458 125 516 362 121
All - India 354 444 202 411 393 196
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 463 386 151 481 370 149
All - India 399 424 176 411 414 175


self employed regular employed casual labour self employed regular casual labour
employed
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 531 74 395 534 73 393
All - India 576 91 333 581 90 329
Rural-Female
West Bengal 469 137 394 610 83 307
All - India 564 48 389 637 37 326
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 522 83 395 552 75 373
All - India 573 78 350 602 71 328
Urban-Male
West Bengal 446 376 179 447 373 179
All – India 446 408 146 448 406 146
Urban-Female
West Bengal 394 502 104 524 367 109
All - India 404 422 174 477 356 167
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 438 393 168 462 372 166
All - India 438 411 151 454 395 150


employed
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 488 76 436 492 75 433
All - India 544 90 366 550 88 362
Rural-Female
West Bengal 547 69 384 624 51 325
All - India 500 39 461 573 31 396
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 499 75 426 522 70 408
All - India 531 75 394 558 68 374
Urban-Male
West Bengal 429 402 169 431 399 170
All – India 412 419 169 415 417 168
Urban-Female
West Bengal 394 428 178 436 401 163
All - India 384 385 231 453 333 214
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 424 406 170 432 400 168
All - India 407 413 180 422 400 178


employed
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 533 107 360 547 103 350
All - India 567 87 346 577 85 338
Rural-Female
West Bengal 382 158 460 590 73 337
All - India 513 34 453 586 27 387
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 516 113 371 557 95 348
All - India 553 72 375 581 66 353
Urban-Male
West Bengal 366 485 149 374 476 150
All – India 412 428 160 417 422 161
Urban-Female
West Bengal 272 524 204 364 441 195
All - India 367 358 275 448 292 260
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 353 490 157 373 470 157
All - India 404 416 180 424 395 181
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515(part-1), 458(part-1), 409

Table 3.7: Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the principal status by industry
Sector
transport, storage
Electricity, water
trade, restaurant
business act etc.

wholesale/retail
Agriculture etc.
manufacturing
Public admn.,
(NIC’2004)
construction
services etc.
community
education,
quarrying
Fin. Inter.
mining &
(01-05)
(10-14)
(15-37)
(40-41)
(50-55)
(60-64)
(65-74)
(75-99)
(01-99)
(45)
etc.
etc.
etc.
all
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 591 5 120 0 70 107 53 9 45 1000
All - India 625 8 71 2 114 82 42 8 48 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 420 23 299 0 16 51 5 8 178 1000
All - India 789 3 76 0 42 31 3 2 55 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 571 7 142 0 63 100 47 9 62 1000
All - India 668 7 72 2 95 68 32 6 51 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 34 7 246 8 76 304 121 47 155 1000
All - India 59 7 219 7 115 270 105 72 146 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 45 2 285 0 4 87 16 16 547 1000
All - India 118 3 258 4 51 124 15 51 376 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 36 6 252 7 66 272 106 43 213 1000
All - India 69 7 225 7 104 245 90 68 185 1000

Table 3.7(contd.): Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the principal status by industry
Year: 2004-05
Sector
business act etc.

wholesale/retail
Agriculture etc.
manufacturing
restaurant etc.
Public admn.,
construction
sersvice etc.
(NIC’1998)
community
storage etc.
Electricity,
education,
quarrying
mining &
transport,
water etc.
Fin. inter
(01-05)
(10-14)
(15-37)
(40-41)
(50-55)
(60-64)
(65-74)
(75-99)
(01-99)
trade,
(45)
all
Rural-Male
West Bengal 640 3 89 1 50 115 47 11 45 1000
All - India 662 6 80 2 69 83 39 7 52 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 540 1 291 0 6 43 2 2 116 1000
All – India 814 4 87 0 17 28 2 1 45 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 625 3 119 1 43 104 40 10 56 1000
All - India 708 6 82 2 54 67 27 5 49 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 27 11 260 7 75 270 131 61 160 1000
All - India 60 9 236 8 93 281 107 59 148 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 12 9 280 0 13 70 3 31 582 1000
All - India 147 2 254 2 45 131 16 37 365 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 25 10 263 6 67 241 113 57 218 1000
All - India 76 8 239 7 84 253 90 55 188 1000

Sector
transport, storage
Electricity, water
trade, restaurant
business act etc.

wholesale/retail
Agriculture etc.
manufacturing
Public admn.,
(NIC’1998)
construction
sersvice etc.
community
etc. (50-55)
education,
quarrying
mining &
Fin. inter
(01-05)
(10-14)
(15-37)
(40-41)
(60-64)
(65-74)
(75-99)
(01-99)
(45)
etc.
etc.
all
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 663 4 110 1 27 103 43 4 45 1000
All - India 712 6 73 2 45 68 32 5 56 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 572 0 305 0 6 34 0 1 83 1000
All – India 841 4 77 0 12 23 1 1 42 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 647 3 145 1 23 91 35 4 52 1000
All - India 751 5 74 2 35 54 23 4 52 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 32 9 253 14 72 278 132 47 162 1000
All - India 65 9 225 8 88 293 104 44 165 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 22 6 262 0 22 132 17 16 524 1000
All - India 146 4 232 2 55 164 20 28 350 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 30 8 254 12 65 257 115 43 215 1000
All - India 79 8 226 7 82 270 90 41 197 1000
Source: NSS Report No.458(part-1)

Sector
etc. services
etc. services
Manufactur
Constructio
Agriculture
wholesale/r
community
storage etc.
Electricity
etail trade
quarrying
insurance
mining &
transport,
financial,
All (0=9)
(1 digit NIC)
(2 & 3)
etc. (6)
n (5)
ing
(0)
(1)
(4)
(7)
(8)
(9)
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 642 2 119 1 28 90 36 5 75 1000
All - India 737 7 70 3 33 55 22 4 67 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 449 4 358 - 28 40 6 1 115 1000
All – India 847 5 75 - 11 22 1 1 39 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 617 2 151 1 28 84 32 5 80 1000
All - India 769 7 71 2 26 46 16 3 59 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 43 24 305 12 63 206 99 42 205 1000
All - India 87 13 236 12 70 219 98 38 226 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 37 12 266 - 19 53 22 21 571 1000
All - India 193 7 236 3 49 107 15 22 366 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 42 23 300 10 57 184 88 39 257 1000
All - India 106 12 236 11 66 199 84 35 251 1000

Table 3.8: Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the principal and subsidiary status taken together
by industry
Sector Industry section as per NIC’2008*

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U all
Year: 2011-12
Rural-Male
West Bengal 568.5 4.0 122.8 0.5 0.2 101.8 77.4 46.0 11.6 0.9 5.4 0.1 1.8 4.6 7.0 20.1 3.0 1.1 20.5 2.8 0 1000
All - India 593.6 5.4 81.3 2.0 1.1 130.1 69.9 40.6 10.4 1.7 4.2 1.0 2.3 3.0 10.1 18.2 3.8 1.6 18.1 1.8 0 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 416.9 0 422.4 0.1 0 28.9 22.7 1.5 5.5 0 0.4 0.2 1.5 0 2.1 47.8 10.4 3.0 3.2 33.2 0 1000
All - India 749.4 2.9 97.9 0.1 0.6 65.9 24.5 1.1 5.0 0.5 1.3 0 0.3 0.5 2.9 26.4 6.7 0.4 8.5 5.1 0 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 532.1 3.0 194.7 0.4 0.2 84.3 64.3 35.3 10.1 0.7 4.2 0.2 1.7 8.6 41.7 97.8 21.8 0 20.0 12.9 0 1000
All - India 641.0 4.7 86.4 1.4 0.9 110.5 56.1 28.6 8.7 1.3 3.3 0.7 1.7 2.2 7.9 20.7 4.7 1.2 15.2 2.8 0 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 25.6 10.5 309.9 5.4 4.7 75.6 211.5 97.4 33.9 20.3 26.3 3.2 18.9 20.5 29.2 39.5 15.4 3.3 28.3 20.6 0 1000
All - India 56.4 8.6 223.7 6.8 6.9 106.5 219.7 90.7 40.2 26.5 25.6 6.6 17.6 20.5 44.9 35.6 15.8 5.5 33.3 8.5 0 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 16.1 1.5 328.8 0 11.9 7.6 90.8 10.0 16.2 7.1 17.6 0 9.7 18.1 17.0 184.2 43.4 6.1 31.7 182.0 0 1000
All - India 109.1 2.9 287.0 3.9 6.4 39.5 100.4 7.2 27.7 20.2 22.3 1.2 10.9 10.8 26.3 133.4 46.2 2.8 58.5 83.2 0.1 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 23.7 8.6 313.8 4.3 6.2 61.6 186.6 79.4 30.3 17.6 24.5 2.5 17.0 20.0 26.7 69.3 21.2 3.8 29.0 53.9 0 1000
All - India 66.9 7.5 236.2 6.2 6.8 93.2 196.1 74.2 37.8 25.3 25.0 5.5 16.3 18.6 41.2 55.0 21.8 4.9 38.3 23.3 0 1000
Agriculture Sector: Sec A; Secondary Sector: Sec B-F; Tertiary Sector: Sec G-U (* cf. Appendix)

Table 3.8(contd.): Per 1000 distribution of usually working persons in the principal and subsidiary status taken
together by industry
Sector
construction(45
wholesale/retai
Manufacturing
storage etc.(60-
Public admn.,
water etc.(40-
services etc.
business act
Agriculture
community
(NIC’2004)
Electricity,
education,
restaurant
etc.(01-05)
etc.(50-55)
quarrying
mining &
transport,
Fin. inter
l trade,
(10-14)
(15-37)
(65-74)
(75-99)
(01-99)
etc.
41)
64)
all
)
Year: 2009-10
Rural-Male
West Bengal 594 5 120 0 70 105 52 9 46 1000
All - India 628 8 70 2 113 82 41 7 48 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 424 14 373 0 10 46 4 5 125 1000
All - India 794 3 75 0 52 28 2 2 44 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 563 7 166 0 59 94 43 8 61 1000
All - India 679 6 72 2 94 64 29 6 48 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 34 7 246 8 75 305 120 49 156 1000
All - India 60 7 218 7 114 270 104 72 147 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 48 1 357 0 3 90 12 14 476 1000
All - India 139 3 279 4 47 121 14 47 346 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 36 6 267 6 62 265 100 42 214 1000
All - India 75 6 230 6 102 243 87 67 185 1000

Sector
restaurant etc.
Public admn.,
manufacturin
wholesale/ret
construction
sersvice etc.
business act
Agriculture
community
storage etc.
Electricity,
etc. (65-74)
education,
All (01-99)
(NIC’1998) etc.(01-05)
quarrying
mining &
transport,
water etc.
Fin. inter
ail trade,
(10-14)
(15-37)
(40-41)
(50-55)
(60-64)
(75-99)
(45)
g
Year: 2004-05
Rural-Male
West Bengal 639 3 89 1 50 114 46 11 48 1000
All - India 665 6 79 2 68 83 38 7 52 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 588 1 289 0 5 34 1 1 82 1000
All - India 833 3 84 0 15 25 2 1 38 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 627 2 135 1 39 95 36 9 55 1000
All - India 727 5 81 2 49 61 25 5 45 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 27 10 257 6 75 270 129 59 165 1000
All - India 61 9 235 8 92 280 107 59 149 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 31 6 354 0 9 75 6 21 496 1000
All - India 181 2 282 2 38 122 14 32 327 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 28 10 276 5 62 232 106 52 229 1000
All - India 88 8 246 7 80 246 86 53 187 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 537,515(part-1)

Sector
manufacturing
wholesale/reta
restaurant etc.
Public admn.,
construction
sersvice etc.
business act
Agriculture
community
storage etc.
(NIC’1998)
Electricity,
etc. (65-74)
education,
etc.(01-05)
quarrying
mining &
transport,
water etc.
Fin. inter
il trade,
(10-14)
(15-37)
(40-41)
(50-55)
(60-64)
(75-99)
(01-99)
(45)
all
Year: 1999-2000
Rural-Male
West Bengal 664 4 109 1 27 102 42 4 46 1000
All - India 714 6 73 2 45 68 32 5 56 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 541 0 361 0 4 28 0 1 66 1000
All - India 854 3 76 0 11 20 1 1 36 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 636 3 166 1 22 85 33 4 50 1000
All - India 763 5 74 2 33 51 21 3 49 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 32 9 252 14 72 278 131 47 165 1000
All - India 66 9 224 8 87 294 104 45 165 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 23 5 286 0 19 132 15 15 505 1000
All - India 177 4 240 2 48 169 18 25 317 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 30 8 257 12 64 254 112 42 220 1000
All - India 88 8 227 7 80 269 87 41 195 1000

Sector
community etc.
wholesale/retai
Manufacturing
Agriculture (0)
storage etc. (7)
insurance etc.
l trade etc. (6)
Electricity (4)
quarrying (1)
Construction
(1 digit NIC)
services (8)
services (9)
mining &
transport,
financial,
All (0=9)
(2 & 3)
(5)
Year: 1993-94
Rural-Male
West Bengal 647 2 117 1 27 90 35 5 75 1000
All - India 741 7 70 3 32 55 22 4 66 1000
Rural-Female
West Bengal 589 2 300 - 16 27 3 1 63 1000
All - India 862 4 70 1 9 21 1 1 33 1000
Rural-Persons
West Bengal 633 2 161 1 24 75 27 4 72 1000
All - India 784 6 70 2 24 43 14 3 54 1000
Urban-Male
West Bengal 44 24 302 12 61 206 98 42 212 1000
All - India 90 13 235 12 69 219 97 38 226 1000
Urban-Female
West Bengal 86 9 305 - 15 47 19 18 501 1000
All - India 247 6 241 3 41 100 13 19 331 1000
Urban-Persons
West Bengal 51 21 302 10 53 177 83 37 265 1000
All - India 123 12 236 10 63 194 79 34 248 1000
Source: NSS Report No. 458(part-1),409

Table 3.9: Number of persons employed according to current weekly and current daily status per 1000 persons by
sex and residence status
Rural Urban
Male Female Persons Male Female Persons
Sector
current current current current current current
weekly daily weekly daily weekly daily weekly daily weekly daily weekly daily
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 563 527 162 120 365 326 594 576 163 135 390 367
All - India 526 504 207 169 370 340 539 528 138 125 347 335
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 600 554 137 96 381 337 578 561 131 110 362 343
All - India 531 501 223 182 381 346 536 522 130 117 343 329
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 549 494 148 105 351 302 585 554 146 117 375 345
All - India 524 488 275 216 402 355 537 519 152 133 353 334
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 495 446 126 86 313 268 560 541 113 97 344 97
All - India 510 478 253 204 384 344 509 490 128 111 327 111
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 532 496 141 96 341 300 540 521 135 113 353 333
All - India 531 504 267 219 403 366 511 496 139 120 334 317
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515(part-1), 458(part-1), 409

Table 3.10: Number of workers by enterprise type in un-incorporated non-agricultural enterprises (excluding construction activities) during 2010-11
estimated number of workers in Sample number of workers number of enterprises

Sector % share of workers estimated sample
OAE Establishments all
RURAL
Manufacturing
West Bengal 2747824 932880 3680703 19.9 26531 2161748 5438
All - India 13212564 5297787 18510351 100.00 181293 10115082 51608
Trade
West Bengal 1394025 186059 1580083 10.3 7254 1239538 4535
All - India 13629416 1749079 15378495 100.00 88123 10564618 52375
Other Services
West Bengal 1528225 214439 1742664 9.0 9482 1314838 4727
All - India 14857638 4435821 19293458 100.0 167018 10211394 58392
All
West Bengal 5670074 1333377 7003451 13.2 43267 4716124 14703
All - India 41699618 11482687 53182304 100.00 436434 30891093 162375
URBAN
Manufacturing
West Bengal 567108 758450 1325558 8.1 10209 602306 3604
All - India 7631588 8746495 16378083 100.00 128530 7095188 47674
Trade
West Bengal 950060 847364 1797424 9.6 8993 1023434 4414
All - India 10876584 7874195 18750779 100.00 124431 10186086 57924
Other Services
West Bengal 897246 835980 1733226 8.8 12539 946138 4792
All - India 9556241 10111468 19667708 100.00 193738 9500939 66501
All
West Bengal 2414414 2441794 4856207 8.9 31741 2571877 12810
All - India 28064412 26732158 54796570 100.00 446699 26782213 172099
COMBINED
Manufacturing
West Bengal 3314932 1691330 5006261 14.3 36740 2764054 9042
All - India 20844151 14044283 34888434 100.00 309823 17210269 99282
Trade
West Bengal 2344085 1033422 3377507 9.9 16247 2262971 8952
All - India 24506000 9623274 34129274 100.00 212554 20750704 110299
Other Services
West Bengal 2425471 1050419 3475890 8.9 22021 2260976 9519
All - India 24413878 14547288 38961167 100 360756 19712332 124893
All
West Bengal 8084488 3775171 11859658 11.0 75008 7288002 27513
All - India 69764030 38214845 107978875 100.00 883133 57673306 334474

Table 3.11: Number of workers by nature of employment and gender in un-incorporated non-agricultural enterprises (Excluding construction activities)
during 2010-11
Sector average number of workers number of enterprises

full time part time all
female male all female male all female male all estimated sample
Rural OAE Manufacturing
West Bengal 1426153 857522 2283675 392966 71183 464149 1819119 928705 2747824 2002647 3019
All - India 5009025 6214137 11223163 1422008 567394 1989401 6431033 6781531 13212564 9138228 35673
Rural OAE Trade
West Bengal 83933 1183615 1267548 59415 67061 126477 143348 1250676 1394025 1166225 3311
All - India 1776623 10115739 11892362 889676 847378 1737054 2666299 10963117 13629416 9953886 42009
Rural OAE Other Services
West Bengal 184245 1155797 1340042 125416 62767 188184 309661 1218564 1528225 1250310 3454
All - India 3519066 8331157 11850223 2466037 541378 3007414 5985103 8872535 14857638 9153903 39922
Rural OAE All
West Bengal 1694331 3196934 4891264 577798 201012 778810 2272129 3397945 5670074 4419183 9784
All - India 10304714 24661034 34965748 4777721 1956149 6733870 15082435 26617183 41699618 28246018 117604
Rural ESTABLISHMENT Manufacturing
West Bengal 180220 713952 894171 11943 26765 38708 192163 740716 932880 159101 2419
All - India 1076838 3998289 5075126 69169 153492 222661 1146006 4151781 5297787 976854 15935
Rural ESTABLISHMENT Trade
West Bengal 2103 175700 177804 1347 6908 8255 3451 182608 186059 73313 1227
All - India 101023 1573263 1674286 17160 57633 74793 118182 1630896 1749079 610732 10366
Rural ESTABLISHMENT Other Services
West Bengal 12322 181884 194205 2152 18081 20234 14474 199965 214439 64528 1273
All - India 738168 3380575 4118742 57164 259914 317078 795332 3640489 4435821 1057490 18470
Rural ESTABLISHMENT All
West Bengal 194645 1071536 1266180 15443 51754 67197 210088 1123289 1333377 296942 4919
All - India 1916028 8952127 10868155 143492 471040 614532 2059520 9423166 11482687 2645076 44771
Rural ALL Manufacturing
West Bengal 1606373 1571473 3177846 404909 97948 502857 2011282 1669421 3680703 2161748 5438
All - India 6085863 10212426 16298289 1491176 720886 2212062 7577039 10933312 18510351 10115082 51608
Rural ALL Trade
West Bengal 86036 1359315 1445352 60763 73969 134732 146799 1433285 1580083 1239538 4538
All - India 1877645 11689002 13566648 906836 905011 1811847 2784481 12594014 15378495 10564618 52375
Rural ALL Other Services
West Bengal 196566 1337681 1534247 127569 80849 208417 324135 1418529 1742664 1314838 4727
All - India 4257234 11711732 15968966 2523200 801292 3324493 6780434 12513024 19293458 10211394 58392
Rural ALL All
West Bengal 1888976 4268469 6157445 593241 252766 846006 2482216 4521235 7003451 4716124 14703
All - India 12220742 33613161 45833903 4921213 2427189 7348402 17141955 36040349 53182304 30891093 162375

Table 3.11 (contd.): Number of workers by nature of employment and gender in un-incorporated non-agricultural enterprises (Excluding construction
activities) during 2010-11
Sector average number of workers number of enterprises

full time part time all
female male all female male all female male all estimated sample
Urban OAE Manufacturing
West Bengal 233378 268864 502242 51152 13714 64866 284530 282578 567108 429831 1808
All - India 3016085 3429790 6445875 939070 246643 1185713 3955154 3676433 7631588 5291761 27632
Urban OAE Trade
West Bengal 68610 831884 900494 22754 26812 49566 91364 858696 950060 775378 2685
All - India 1345269 8650149 9995417 376157 505009 881167 1721426 9155158 10876584 7870356 35779
Urban OAE Other Services
West Bengal 115596 727876 843472 26151 27623 53774 141747 755499 897246 785781 2899
All - India 1420809 7310982 8731791 527918 296532 824450 1948727 7607513 9556241 7402353 38205
Urban OAE All
West Bengal 417584 1828624 2246208 100057 68149 168206 517640 1896773 2414414 1990990 7392
All - India 5782163 19390920 25173083 1843145 1048185 2891329 7625308 20439105 28064412 20564470 101616
Urban ESTABLISHMENT Manufacturing
West Bengal 62529 670295 732823 7265 18362 25627 69794 688656 758450 172475 1796
All - India 928049 7618685 8546734 71402 128359 199761 999451 7747044 8746495 1803426 20042
Urban ESTABLISHMENT Trade
West Bengal 14727 806005 820732 7101 19531 26632 21828 825536 847364 248056 1729
All - India 442091 7218403 7660494 37744 175957 213701 479835 7394360 7874195 2315730 22145
Urban ESTABLISHMENT Other Services
West Bengal 91375 698891 790266 13561 32154 45714 104936 731044 835980 160357 1893
All - India 2162959 7559980 9722939 130109 258419 388529 2293068 7818400 10111468 2098586 28296
Urban ESTABLISHMENT All
West Bengal 168630 2175191 2343821 27927 70046 97973 196557 2245236 2441794 580887 5418
All - India 3533099 22397069 25930168 239255 562735 801990 3772354 22959804 26732158 6217743 70483
Urban ALL Manufacturing
West Bengal 295907 939159 1235065 58417 32076 90492 354323 971234 1325558 602306 3604
All - India 3944134 11048475 14992609 1010472 375002 1385474 4954606 11423477 16378083 7095188 47674
Urban ALL Trade
West Bengal 83337 1637889 1721226 29855 46343 76198 113192 1684232 1797424 1023434 4414
All - India 1787359 15868552 17655911 413901 680966 1094867 2201260 16549518 18750779 10186086 57924
Urban ALL Other Services
West Bengal 206970 1426767 1633738 39712 59776 99488 246682 1486544 1733226 946138 4792
All - India 3583768 14870962 18454730 658027 554951 1212978 4241795 15425913 19667708 9500939 66501
Urban ALL All
West Bengal 586214 4003815 4590029 127984 138195 266178 714198 4142010 4856207 2571877 12810
All - India 9315262 41787989 51103251 2082400 1610920 3693320 11397662 43398909 54796570 26782213 172099

Table 3.12: Activitywise Number of Workers in 2005
Rural Urban
Activity Sector OAE NDE DE All OAE NDE DE All
Farming of Animals WB 1,42,297 47,601 44,563 2,34,461 12,444 9,118 6,730 28,292
India 65,46,536 14,23,375 6,66,127 86,36,038 3,55,806 1,46,273 74,436 5,76,515
Agriculture services WB 47,712 24,926 19,824 92,462 980 1,257 2,002 4,239
India 5,46,698 2,18,935 1,62,652 9,28,285 15,448 14,288 28,864 58,600
Fishing etc. WB 66,241 26,355 25,034 1,17,630 2,520 1,653 1,404 5,577
India 3,31,076 1,53,625 1,26,174 6,10,875 43,331 32,072 27,885 1,03,288
All Agricultural WB 2,56,250 98,882 89,421 4,44,553 15,944 12,028 10,136 38,108
Activities India 74,24,310 17,95,935 9,54,953 1,01,75,198 4,14,585 1,92,633 1,31,185 7,38,403
Mining and WB 1,580 1,553 14,064 17,197 462 654 28,208 29,324
Quarrying India 51,108 42,281 3,11,034 4,04,423 15,666 25,976 1,35,765 1,77,407
Manufacturing WB 8,43,364 4,54,215 5,48,325 18,45,904 1,97,008 3,83,748 6,86,935 12,67,691
India 53,64,793 29,86,898 51,83,038 1,35,34,729 21,67,402 36,01,738 61,77,846 1,19,46,986
Electricity, gas and WB 986 2,518 8,377 11,881 363 1,435 11,887 13,685
Water Supply India 10,389 50,259 1,27,717 1,88,365 6,838 27,003 2,15,250 2,49,091
Construction WB 12,757 10,519 13,344 36,620 5,326 7,332 11,312 23,970
India 1,33,222 1,02,873 1,13,114 3,49,209 96,821 1,29,130 1,69,128 3,95,079
Sale, Maint. & WB 7,599 14,195 7,463 29,257 5,928 29,246 32,965 68,139
Repair of Motor
Vehicles, Motor
Cycles India 1,66,256 2,26,933 1,13,901 5,07,090 2,30,202 6,87,983 4,70,498 13,88,683
Wholesale trade WB 69,375 42,523 25,421 1,37,319 17,832 60,808 55,186 1,33,826
India 3,24,813 2,22,041 1,92,889 7,39,743 2,62,247 6,59,571 4,67,890 13,89,708
Retail Trade WB 3,31,017 1,19,976 8,024 4,59,017 94,650 1,50,840 12,977 2,58,467
India 74,60,020 30,37,956 9,69,869 1,14,67,845 52,03,842 62,45,157 22,19,269 1,36,68,268
Hotels & WB 62,126 44,536 29,161 1,35,823 28,748 57,965 55,572 1,42,285
Restaurants India 7,48,926 6,22,290 2,54,102 16,25,318 4,11,015 9,08,698 8,34,994 21,54,707

Table 3.12(contd.): Activitywise Number of Workers in 2005

Rural Urban
Activity Sector OAE NDE DE All OAE NDE DE All
Transport, storage WB 2,05,110 62,128 58,733 3,25,971 82,104 53,633 79,860 2,15,597
India 6,88,938 3,91,049 2,49,529 13,29,516 4,74,611 4,30,930 6,64,775 15,70,316
Post & WB 12,767 14,430 6,391 33,588 11,136 20,349 34,086 65,571
Telecommunication India 2,08,992 2,20,924 65,159 4,95,075 2,72,174 2,90,632 4,35,021 9,97,827
Financial WB 5,159 8,901 16,452 30,512 3,137 3,518 85,175 91,830
intermediation India 83,303 1,74,046 2,09,404 4,66,753 68,293 1,68,526 9,41,457 11,78,276
Real estate, Renting WB 27,648 31,782 22,866 82,296 18,065 46,558 85,801 1,50,424
& Business Services India 3,19,731 2,91,758 1,54,494 7,65,983 3,25,826 7,57,568 9,26,805 20,10,199
Public administration WB 3,666 28,787 94,486 1,26,939 1,657 7,549 3,03,144 3,12,350
& Defence;
compulsory social India 49,668 6,28,091 10,17,539 16,95,298 22,106 2,01,698 39,31,012 41,54,816
Education WB 27,217 1,57,368 1,86,250 3,70,835 27,872 46,897 1,63,895 2,38,664
India 1,41,263 18,75,144 25,79,625 45,96,032 1,36,882 3,91,317 23,61,172 28,89,371
Health and social WB 33,943 33,078 37,985 1,05,006 14,469 26,471 83,029 1,23,969
Work India 2,23,980 4,65,538 3,59,068 10,48,586 1,60,950 4,55,522 9,94,894 16,11,366
Other community, WB 1,29,321 75,818 60,653 2,65,792 77,533 74,013 91,710 2,43,256
social and personal India 13,25,447 9,12,859 4,39,313 26,77,619 7,35,879 9,29,000 6,46,498 23,11,377
Other Activities WB 633 61 215 909 11 26 196 233
India 1,279 770 520 2,569 309 702 1,879 2,890
All Non- Agricultural WB 23,64,848 13,73,759 13,60,080 50,98,687 9,35,080 14,16,574 20,99,248 44,50,902
Activities India 1,73,02,128 1,22,51,710 1,23,40,315 4,18,94,153 1,05,91,063 1,59,11,151 2,15,94,153 4,80,96,367
All Agricultural & WB 26,21,098 14,72,641 14,49,501 55,43,240 9,51,024 14,28,602 21,09,384 44,89,010
Non-Agricultural
Activities India 2,47,26,438 1,40,47,645 1,32,95,268 5,20,69,351 1,10,05,648 1,61,03,784 2,17,25,338 4,88,34,770
Source: Economic Census,2005

Table 3.13 (a): Numbers of Establishment, Employment and Women Employment in the Organised Sector
As on 31.03.2008 As on 31.03.2009 As on 31.03.2010 As on 31.03.2011
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Employment (in
Nos. of Women
Nos. of Women
Nos. of Women
Nos. of Women
Establishments
Establishments
Establishments
Establishments
Region
Sector
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
thousand)
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
Nos. of
West Public 10225 1180 104.96 10424 1161 108.22 10530 1144 106.00 9840 1048 107.60
Bengal Private 6055 758 131.62 6053 772 134.02 6205 783 137.30 6225 766 154.49
Total 16280 1937 236.57 16477 1934 242.24 16735 1927 243.30 16065 1814 262.09
India Public 173869 17674 3039.98 176216 17790 3091.06 178718 17862 3196.04 178395 17548 3170.64
Private 131274 9875 2472.2 132933 10307 2488.79 143714 10846 2662.54 149549 11452 2783.47
Total 305143 27548 5512.17 309149 28098 5579.85 322432 28708 5858.58 327944 28999 5954.11
Source: Director General of Employment & Training, Government of India

Table 3.13 (b): Distribution of Employees in Government of West Bengal by District of Posting and Sex as on
31.03.13
District Male Female Total

(1) (2) (3) (4)
Burdwan 20876 4693 25569
Birbhum 8632 2297 10929
Bankura 12162 3029 15191
Midnapore (E) 7718 2211 9929
Midnapore (W) 18111 4044 22155
Howrah 11931 2811 14742
Hooghly 11140 3524 14664
24 Parganas(N) 22109 4246 26355
24 Parganas(S) 16231 4206 20437
Kolkata 72904 14510 87414
Nadia 13134 3704 16838
Murshidabad 11974 3168 15142
Uttar Dinajpur 6062 1394 7456
Dakshin Dinajpur 4052 1245 5297
Malda 7270 1935 9205
Jalpaiguri 11931 2528 14459
Darjeeling 13238 4051 17289
Coochbehar 6688 1896 8584
Purulia 10579 1998 12577
West Bengal 286742 67490 354232
Source: Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics, Government of West Bengal

Table 3.13 (c): Districtwise number of male main workers and marginal workers as per population census 2011
District Main Worker Marginal Worker
Cultivators Agricultural Household Other Cultivators Agricultural Household Other

Labourers Industry Workers Labourers Industry Workers
Workers Workers
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
Burdwan 284,860 476,956 51,662 1,025,203 34,253 223,552 13,137 183,460
Birbhum 181,962 302,096 18,272 283,318 28,244 159,244 5,733 50,901
Bankura 226,414 219,998 22,070 293,606 50,567 165,051 7,929 65,187
Purba Medinipur 227,108 250,205 36,537 486,353 68,845 293,496 20,465 133,087
Paschim Medinipur 403,904 363,115 39,114 446,074 82,917 311,038 19,421 91,775
Howrah 284,860 476,956 51,662 1,025,203 34,253 223,552 13,137 183,460
Hooghly 181,962 302,096 18,272 283,318 28,244 159,244 5,733 50,901
Purulia 226,414 219,998 22,070 293,606 50,567 165,051 7,929 65,187
24 Parganas(N) 227,108 250,205 36,537 486,353 68,845 293,496 20,465 133,087
24 Parganas(S) 403,904 363,115 39,114 446,074 82,917 311,038 19,421 91,775
Kolkata 4,702 6,767 41,487 1,241,310 3,454 2,006 6,312 106,428
Nadia 286,621 436,313 78,186 604,071 10,434 76,987 8,464 53,014
Murshidabad 336,521 597,348 97,611 631,144 27,007 182,494 19,900 93,642
Uttar Dinajpur 211,115 238,667 10,091 228,896 14,125 67,298 2,608 26,827
Dakshin Dinajpur 156,797 129,402 10,375 131,004 11,167 42,188 1,919 16,708
Malda 206,232 281,043 24,882 339,775 19,899 128,291 11,040 75,299
Jalpaiguri 167,234 166,901 13,334 574,713 15,367 53,684 4,315 95,813
Darjeeling 41,632 23,372 7,863 323,474 13,062 16,996 2,804 50,383
Coochbehar 283,599 212,822 16,063 237,364 19,146 44,603 3,206 28,505
West Bengal 3940399 4943086 869039 11925755 559642 2509728 245644 1722754
Source: Census of India, 2011

Table 3.13 (d): Districtwise number of female main and marginal workers as per population census 2011
District Main Worker Marginal Worker

Cultivators Agricultural Household Other Cultivators Agricultural Household Other
Labourers Industry Workers Labourers Industry Workers
Workers Workers
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Burdwan 12,333 127,330 29,676 158,722 10,720 145,344 30,083 103,960
Birbhum 9,699 48,573 15,770 53,154 7,349 101,597 25,287 40,404
Bankura 11,765 83,272 9,409 49,859 20,977 179,053 21,978 39,085
Purba Medinipur 14,681 27,063 21,503 63,862 34,581 131,540 40,311 60,683
Paschim Medinipur 32,480 126,084 18,499 81,278 52,967 304,964 65,568 69,961
Howrah 4,524 7,611 49,756 129,941 4,888 13,521 49,023 62,411
Hooghly 10,017 82,765 19,890 138,540 10,133 84,665 25,314 67,938
Purulia 21,634 39,592 19,657 39,283 43,631 212,875 28,860 42,856
24 Parganas(N) 12,337 38,993 36,418 336,975 9,214 50,645 37,910 103,943
24 Parganas(S) 20,289 31,639 33,173 169,870 32,943 119,661 74,016 126,332
Kolkata 2,711 2,136 11,976 265,330 5,172 1,479 8,663 85,807
Nadia 6,608 25,267 52,300 106,514 5,079 17,567 30,188 44,994
Murshidabad 9,528 29,778 218,076 102,077 8,020 32,674 130,420 73,667
Uttar Dinajpur 15,231 55,528 11,856 52,958 16,906 80,835 13,423 29,262
Dakshin Dinajpur 13,885 45,288 10,110 29,609 11,427 63,054 9,886 20,168
Malda 13,009 41,409 73,501 71,144 16,042 95,016 87,264 54,001
Jalpaiguri 13,870 45,756 4,781 167,176 18,461 83,331 7,660 80,514
Darjeeling 10,352 8,715 2,654 114,793 11,132 16,958 3,258 36,278
Coochbehar 28,415 59,613 10,084 38,397 33,637 74,837 11,240 26,446
West Bengal 263368 926412 649089 2169482 353279 1809616 700352 1168710
Source: Census of India, 2011

Table 3.14: District-wise Worker Population Ratio under usual activity status by residence & sex during
2009-10
(Per 1000 persons)
Sl. No. District Rural Urban Persons Male Female
1 Darjeeling 394 310 362 522 199
2 Jalpaiguri 345 321 342 558 106
3 Coochbehar 407 336 401 610 193
4 Uttar Dinajpur 374 334 371 541 164
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 349 389 351 610 108
6 Malda 356 370 357 560 133
7 Murshidabad 402 348 397 590 173
8 Birbhum 378 305 374 584 126
9 Barddhaman 406 337 382 600 158
10 Nadia 420 478 432 642 223
11 North 24 Parganas 403 393 398 620 162
12 Hooghly 386 333 369 621 116
13 Bankura 444 329 437 607 249
14 Purulia 461 385 455 580 305
15 Paschim Medinipore 417 374 412 626 191
16 Howrah 423 413 419 632 190
17 Kolkata 371 371 623 100
18 South 24 Parganas 368 367 368 600 104
19 Purba Medinipore 362 369 362 578 132
20 West Bengal 393 372 388 600 160

Table 4.1: Usual status unemployment rates by sex

Sector Rural Urban
Usual status adjusted Usual status adjusted
Usual status (ps) Usual status (ps)
(ps+ss) (ps+ss)
male female persons male female persons male female persons male female persons
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 36 45 37 26 23 26 55 102 63 47 67 51
All – India 23 30 24 19 17 18 69 40 26 31 55 36
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 24 47 27 17 28 19 37 109 49 35 65 40
All - India 19 24 21 16 16 16 30 70 37 28 57 34
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 31 45 33 25 27 26 70 64 69 62 44 58
All - India 23 19 22 19 11 16 40 66 45 38 52 41
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 30 81 38 22 33 25 64 137 75 56 84 62
All - India 21 31 25 16 18 17 44 91 53 38 69 45
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 34 38 35 28 28 28 77 111 82 72 95 76
All - India 21 15 19 17 10 15 48 71 52 45 57 47
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 28 46 30 18 17 18 77 196 96 63 142 79
All - India 20 14 18 14 8 12 45 82 52 40 62 45
Source: NSS Report No. KI 68, 537, 531, 515 (part 1), 458, 409

Table 4.2: Current weekly status unemployment rates by sex
Sector current weekly status

rural urban
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 47 61 50 55 79 60
All - India 35 36 35 40 70 46
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 28 52 32 42 95 52
All - India 32 37 33 36 72 42
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 51 72 55 69 62 68
All - India 41 35 39 47 65 50
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 54 70 57 66 112 75
All - India 38 42 39 52 90 60
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 92 165 107 82 115 87
All – India 39 37 38 56 73 59
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 42 61 46 78 175 97
All - India 30 30 30 52 84 58

Table 4.3: Current daily status unemployment rates by sex
Sector current daily status

rural urban
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 82 89 83 68 94 72
All - India 57 63 59 50 82 55
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 70 80 72 57 108 65
All - India 64 80 68 51 91 58
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 124 109 122 97 85 96
All - India 85 81 84 69 95 74
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 54 70 57 66 112 75
All - India 38 42 39 52 90 60
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 152 251 170 100 139 106
All - India 72 70 71 73 94 77
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 87 112 91 102 208 121
All - India 56 56 56 67 105 74

Table 4.4: Unemployment rates (usual principal status) for the educated (15 years and above)
Sector rural urban
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 77 283 99 66 153 80
All - India 45 144 60 44 119 56
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 67 292 86 50 243 77
All - India 41 157 56 38 139 54
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 88 463 125 81 280 116
All - India 59 231 85 60 194 82
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 110 379 130 98 292 121
All - India 68 204 82 66 163 79
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 111 547 140 123 377 162
All - India 88 249 103 69 206 89
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515 (part 1), 458, 409

Table 4.5: Unemployment rates (usual principal and subsidiary status taken together) for the educated (15 years
and above)
Sector rural urban

Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 46 183 66 54 111 65
All - India 36 97 47 40 103 51
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 46 197 63 47 155 63
All - India 35 118 48 36 122 49
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 63 308 93 67 185 88
All - India 44 152 65 51 156 71
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 91 332 111 91 256 112
All - India 56 146 67 62 143 74
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 70 298 94 97 327 132
All - India 65 160 75 60 182 78

Table 4.6: Unemployment rates (current weekly status) for the educated (15 years and above)
Sector rural urban
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 53 227 78 59 122 69
All - India 48 123 59 47 116 59
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 47 126 55 54 194 74
All - India 48 143 62 42 137 55
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 89 365 123 75 222 99
All - India 65 182 85 62 179 83
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 130 348 148 93 285 118
All - India 73 169 84 69 158 82
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 70 298 94 97 327 132
All - India 65 160 75 60 182 78

Table 4.7: Per 1000 distribution of usually employed (principal and subsidiary status) by their broad current
weekly status
Sector Rural Urban

male female male female
employed Un- not in employed Un- not in employed Un- not in employed Un- not in
employed labour employed labour employed labour employed labour
force force force force
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 961 20 19 853 30 116 985 9 6 936 4 59
All - India 968 16 17 828 14 158 986 8 6 939 10 50
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 983 11 6 866 5 129 989 7 4 914 24 62
All - India 968 15 17 847 15 138 987 8 6 939 11 50
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 960 25 15 808 19 174 988 8 4 911 2 87
All - India 957 21 22 811 18 171 984 9 8 925 8 67
Year: 2005-06
West Bengal 956 26 19 837 11 152 977 17 6 948 6 47
All - India 953 23 25 820 16 164 978 13 9 920 9 70
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 954 30 16 821 23 156 982 12 6 942 7 51
All - India 958 22 21 833 20 147 977 14 9 914 15 71
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 921 65 13 775 125 100 984 11 5 951 8 41
All - India 956 22 22 832 21 148 977 11 12 900 9 91
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 952 24 23 753 29 218 979 14 6 928 5 66
All - India 957 15 28 807 14 179 976 11 12 884 9 107
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 531,522, 515 (part 1), 458(part 1), 409

Table 4.8: Per 1000 distribution of person-days of usually employed (principal and subsidiary status) by their
broad current daily status
Sector Rural Urban

employed Un- not in employed Un- not in employed Un- not in employed Un- not in
employed labour employed labour employed labour employed labour
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 899 52 49 631 38 330 955 21 24 772 6 222
All - India 927 36 36 677 28 295 966 18 16 852 17 131
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 911 53 36 618 18 364 960 22 18 774 28 199
All - India 916 47 38 692 43 265 961 23 16 846 24 131
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 863 96 41 657 33 310 950 38 13 763 17 220
All - India 894 63 43 643 46 311 953 31 15 814 31 155
Year: 2005-06
West Bengal 866 88 46 561 31 408 928 54 18 799 19 182
All - India 893 60 47 649 41 309 948 34 18 822 26 152
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 858 83 58 584 41 375 931 45 24 755 12 233
All - India 893 61 46 657 47 296 945 37 19 798 31 171
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 833 122 45 530 152 318 951 30 19 820 23 158
All - India 897 53 51 676 41 283 942 27 31 791 22 187
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 889 67 44 512 47 442 944 40 16 773 20 207
All - India 909 40 51 663 30 306 949 27 25 766 24 210

Table 4.9: Per 1000 distribution of person-days of persons employed according to current weekly status by their
broad daily status
Sector Rural Urban

employed unemployed not in employed unemployed not in employed unemployed not in employed unemployed not in
labour labour labour labour
Year: 2010-11
West Bengal 935 34 31 739 13 248 969 13 19 825 4 170
All - India 958 22 21 815 18 166 979 11 10 907 8 85
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 924 42 34 702 15 283 970 15 14 839 5 156
All - India 945 32 22 816 34 150 974 16 10 899 14 87
Year: 2007-08
West Bengal 899 74 27 711 28 261 899 57 43 708 26 266
All - India 934 44 22 791 35 174 932 42 27 787 33 180
Year: 2005-06
West Bengal 906 66 28 670 25 305 950 39 12 843 15 142
All - India 937 39 23 790 31 179 969 22 9 891 19 91
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 899 57 43 708 26 266 948 34 18 800 6 194
All - India 932 42 27 787 33 180 967 23 10 871 18 11
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 902 62 36 681 35 284 966 20 14 860 15 124
All - India 936 32 32 808 25 167 963 16 21 873 15 112
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 933 45 21 677 31 291 963 26 10 829 17 153
All - India 949 26 24 819 21 158 970 15 13 860 17 122

Table 4.10: Number of workers (principal status) of age 15 years and above who did not work more or less
regularly per 1000 workers (usual principal status) for each sex
Sector rural urban
male female person male female person
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 148 131 145 49 70 52
All - India 98 130 106 54 69 57
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 172 251 182 69 46 66
All - India 145 176 153 74 77 74
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 175 204 180 83 90 84
All - India 110 139 118 62 89 67
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 159 209 168 59 64 60
All - India 105 133 113 65 89 69
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 146 241 159 54 69 57
All - India 120 174 136 61 96 67
Source: NSS Report No. 554, 537, 515 (part 1), 458(part 1), 409

Table 4.11: Number of usually working (principal) persons (15 years & above) who sought or were available for
additional work per 1000 usually working (principal) persons (15 years & above) for each sex
Sector rural urban

Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 163 121 157 91 131 98
All - India 78 52 72 40 34 39
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 253 193 245 122 186 132
All - India 114 83 105 59 62 59
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 205 188 203 153 211 161
All - India 107 74 97 62 65 62
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 234 251 237 78 87 80
All - India 105 83 99 61 58 60
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 108 124 110 77 81 78
All - India 69 60 67 44 51 45

Table 4.12: Number of usually working (principal) persons (15 yrs. & above) who sought or were available for
alternate work per 1000 usually working (principal) persons (15 yrs. & above) for each sex
Sector rural urban
Year: 2011-12
West Bengal 153 138 150 85 111 90
All - India 67 38 61 40 41 40
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 238 219 236 90 93 91
All - India 102 72 94 49 45 48
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 171 118 163 120 131 122
All - India 92 58 82 55 52 55
Year: 1999-2000
West Bengal 227 112 208 87 87 87
All - India 91 60 82 68 60 66
Year: 1993-94
West Bengal 93 120 97 90 78 88
All - India 55 43 53 42 42 42

Table 4.13 District-wise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under usual activity status by residence during
2009-10
(Per 1000 persons)
Sl. No. District Rural Urban Combined
1 Darjeeling 92 43 77
2 Jalpaiguri 31 78 37
3 Coochbehar 12 29 12
4 Uttar Dinajpur 18 51 21
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 0 35 3
6 Malda 8 31 11
7 Murshidabad 15 49 17
8 Birbhum 36 87 39
9 Barddhaman 17 54 28
10 Nadia 12 30 16
11 North 24 Parganas 22 48 34
12 Hooghly 13 6 37
13 Bankura 2 27 5
14 Purulia 4 56 9
15 Paschim Medinipore 7 36 12
16 Howrah 19 35 26
17 Kolkata 34 34
18 South 24 Parganas 8 34 11
19 Purba Medinipore 22 49 24
20 West Bengal 15 42 23

Table 4.14 Districtwise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under usual activity status by sex during 2009-10
(Per 1000 persons)

Sl. No. District Male Female Persons
6 Malda 11 8 11
8 Birbhum 43 8 39
10 Nadia 14 22 16
11 North 24 Parganas 33 36 34
12 Hooghly 33 51 37
13 Bankura 5 0 5
14 Purulia 10 3 9
16 Howrah 26 26 26
17 Kolkata 27 74 34
18 South 24 Parganas 12 10 11
20 West Bengal 21 24 23

Table 5.1: Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) according to usual principal status by age-group and sex
15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 213 89 44 100 108 147 110 122 193 100 54 103
All - India 114 69 28 61 80 99 58 78 105 76 34 65
Urban
West Bengal 183 158 116 145 316 289 152 229 215 182 123 162
All - India 144 116 53 89 153 219 108 156 145 137 62 102
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 133 66 23 67 176 152 40 120 138 76 26 74
All - India 100 64 22 55 74 86 45 65 94 68 27 57
Urban
West Bengal 176 162 71 122 337 297 289 300 208 186 124 160
All - India 132 101 44 79 143 217 146 172 133 124 62 96
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 126 80 26 72 222 210 49 163 145 99 30 86
All - India 79 62 23 52 67 93 52 70 75 70 33 57
Urban
West Bengal 245 166 108 156 108 353 183 227 209 197 120 168
All - India 140 125 58 100 156 258 158 199 145 152 76 119
Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 107 92 39 75 87 88 39 72 102 91 38 74
All - India 65 62 32 51 41 49 24 37 57 58 28 46
Urban
West Bengal 262 250 126 201 143 383 181 238 241 270 136 207
All - India 154 139 75 115 155 226 115 166 154 154 82 124
Year: 1993-94
Rural
West Bengal 65 87 46 66 37 140 46 74 61 95 47 67
All - India 47 67 32 48 33 45 19 32 42 60 27 44
Urban
West Bengal 213 252 156 199 180 576 288 403 210 334 178 240
All - India 134 139 67 108 168 277 129 194 141 165 78 124

Table 5.2: Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) according to usual status (adjusted) by age-group and sex

15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 171 75 22 77 48 86 45 62 139 78 28 73
All - India 90 58 22 50 49 64 33 48 78 59 24 49
Urban
West Bengal 151 122 98 117 253 219 109 177 176 142 102 132
All - India 129 105 47 81 124 188 87 131 127 123 56 92
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 87 49 19 49 120 78 19 65 94 55 20 52
All - India 82 55 18 47 51 61 32 46 72 57 22 47
Urban
West Bengal 155 155 71 117 191 198 159 177 163 165 96 132
All - India 122 97 43 75 106 188 117 143 120 116 58 89
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 95 59 19 54 116 107 19 76 102 70 19 60
All - India 59 47 16 39 36 57 32 42 50 50 23 40
Urban
West Bengal 222 135 93 133 53 177 113 128 175 145 96 132
All - India 121 111 49 88 111 196 126 149 117 129 64 101
Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 83 76 34 62 59 64 28 51 75 73 32 59
All - India 55 52 26 43 32 35 16 2 746 46 22 37
Urban
West Bengal 246 227 123 187 108 319 160 201 219 242 130 190
All - India 142 128 72 108 132 194 93 139 138 139 75 112
Year: 1993-94
Rural
West Bengal 39 54 33 42 15 57 19 30 33 54 29 39
All - India 33 49 23 35 19 28 9 19 28 41 19 29
Urban
West Bengal 197 217 107 163 137 430 216 298 188 278 129 195
All - India 119 126 57 96 128 217 97 150 120 145 66 108

Table 5.3: Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) according to current weekly status by age-group and sex

15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 213 101 49 106 106 89 84 91 185 97 57 102
All - India 120 80 43 73 80 94 52 74 111 82 45 73
Urban
West Bengal 156 141 114 132 282 226 129 196 184 159 118 146
All - India 149 122 57 95 167 210 99 152 152 142 65 107
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 123 63 31 67 149 109 59 103 128 69 37 74
All - India 115 78 36 70 95 100 46 76 110 83 39 72
Urban
West Bengal 178 161 73 124 263 213 242 238 195 169 120 151
All - India 136 108 52 86 139 206 145 167 136 128 68 102
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 157 95 60 98 165 146 60 120 158 104 59 103
All - India 93 80 42 69 72 92 60 75 88 84 48 71
Urban
West Bengal 230 156 112 151 71 201 177 162 183 166 125 154
All - India 146 131 72 110 130 235 156 183 143 152 88 125
Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 173 150 163 161 355 318 124 272 230 193 154 190
All - India 91 79 56 73 91 82 40 68 91 79 51 72
Urban
West Bengal 255 239 138 200 155 404 177 246 240 264 146 209
All - India 162 146 85 124 153 231 111 166 161 160 190 131
Year: 1993-94
Rural
West Bengal 81 96 62 79 67 90 60 71 77 95 61 77
All - India 57 72 45 58 51 59 35 48 55 68 41 54
Urban
West Bengal 220 246 139 192 223 463 261 343 224 306 163 228
All - India 134 147 73 114 157 258 129 185 141 169 84 128

Table 5.4: Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) according to current daily status by age-group and sex

15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29 15-19 20-24 25-29 15-29
Year: 2011-12
Rural
West Bengal 266 120 94 143 152 163 109 140 238 129 96 141
All - India 151 105 68 99 121 122 76 102 147 109 71 101
Urban
West Bengal 184 176 130 157 294 265 147 220 208 195 133 170
All - India 174 139 66 109 182 227 111 167 175 156 75 120
Year: 2009-10
Rural
West Bengal 195 127 78 126 190 155 56 132 193 130 75 126
All - India 160 119 73 109 163 140 79 120 158 124 74 111
Urban
West Bengal 217 214 91 158 312 255 261 269 239 222 133 182
All - India 170 128 66 105 167 222 167 189 170 147 83 121
Year: 2004-05
Rural
West Bengal 233 170 130 172 218 208 71 163 231 178 121 171
All - India 150 129 88 120 126 149 107 127 141 134 94 121
Urban
West Bengal 276 206 158 199 100 273 204 204 232 219 166 201
All - India 184 158 95 137 164 273 181 215 180 181 112 153
Year: 1999-2000
Rural
West Bengal 257 212 227 230 463 446 228 391 314 264 228 266
All - India 131 117 92 111 128 121 77 106 130 119 87 110
Urban
West Bengal 302 279 161 234 202 416 203 272 286 298 168 240
All - India 190 171 103 147 180 259 131 191 190 185 107 154
Year: 1993-94
Rural
West Bengal 143 149 115 135 141 140 100 123 142 149 112 133
All - India 90 103 77 90 83 83 65 76 88 98 74 86
Urban
West Bengal 280 286 180 236 231 523 301 389 273 349 200 269
All - India 162 170 93 137 186 285 155 212 166 192 104 150

Table 6.1: Distribution of rural workers by number of normal working hours of the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprise in a day during 2010-11
Enterprise Type Sector number per 1000 of rural workers in enterprises with number of normal working hours in a day number of rural workers
less than 4 4 to 7 8 or more n.r. all estimated sample
Manufacturing
West Bengal 43 587 370 0 1000 2747824 4153
OAE
All - India 55 476 469 2 1000 13212564 49997
Trade
West Bengal 6 365 629 0 1000 1394025 4013
OAE
All - India 9 237 754 1 1000 13629416 57772
Other Services
West Bengal 111 399 490 0 1000 1528225 4251
OAE
All - India 262 300 438 2 1000 14857638 62131
All
West Bengal 52 482 466 0 1000 5670074 12417
OAE
All - India 114 335 551 2 1000 41699618 169900
Manufacturing
West Bengal 0 40 960 0 1000 932880 22378
Establishment
All - India 4 93 902 3 1000 5297787 131296
Trade
West Bengal 2 153 845 0 1000 186059 3241
Establishment
All - India 4 98 898 1 1000 1749079 30351
Other Services
West Bengal 23 255 721 0 1000 214439 5231
Establishment
All - India 11 274 715 0 1000 4435821 104887
All
West Bengal 4 90 906 0 1000 1333377 30850
Establishment
All - India 7 164 829 2 1000 11482687 266534
Manufacturing
West Bengal 32 448 520 0 1000 3680703 26531
All
All - India 41 366 593 2 1000 18510351 181293
Trade
West Bengal 6 340 655 0 1000 1580083 7254
All
All - India 8 221 771 1 1000 15378495 88123
Other Services
West Bengal 100 382 518 0 1000 1742664 9482
All
All - India 204 294 502 2 1000 19293458 167018
All
West Bengal 43 407 550 0 1000 7003451 43267
All
All - India 91 298 611 2 1000 53182304 436434

Table 6.2: Distribution of urban workers by number of normal working hours of the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprise in a day during 2010-11
Sector number of urban workers
Enterprise Type number per 1000 of urban workers in enterprises with number of normal working hours in a day
Manufacturing
West Bengal 62 391 547 10 1000 567108 2345
OAE
All - India 59 404 537 3 1000 7631588 39899
Trade
West Bengal 7 210 783 0 1000 950060 3337
OAE
All - India 7 126 867 1 1000 10876584 49485
Other Services
West Bengal 60 311 629 0 1000 897246 3419
OAE
All - India 90 227 683 2 1000 9556241 50757
All
West Bengal 40 290 670 2 1000 2414414 9101
OAE
All - India 50 236 714 2 1000 28064412 140141
Manufacturing
West Bengal 1 59 940 0 1000 758450 7864
Establishment
All - India 2 52 947 0 1000 8746495 88631
Trade
West Bengal 2 80 918 0 1000 847364 5656
Establishment
All - India 2 40 958 0 1000 7874195 74946
Other Services
West Bengal 9 139 852 0 1000 835980 9120
Establishment
All - India 8 155 837 1 1000 10111468 142981
All
West Bengal 4 94 902 0 1000 2441794 22640
Establishment
All - India 4 87 908 0 1000 26732158 306558
Manufacturing
West Bengal 27 201 772 4 1000 1325558 10209
All
All - India 29 216 756 2 1000 16378083 128530
Trade
West Bengal 5 148 847 0 1000 1797424 8993
All
All - India 5 90 905 1 1000 18750779 124431
Other Services
West Bengal 35 228 737 0 1000 1733226 12539
All
All - India 48 190 762 1 1000 19667708 193738
All
West Bengal 22 191 787 1 1000 4856207 31741
All
All - India 27 163 809 1 1000 54796570 446699

Table 6.3: Distribution of all workers by number of normal working hours of the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprise in a day during 2010-11
Enterprise Type Sector number per 1000 of workers in enterprises with number of normal working hours in a day number of workers
Manufacturing
West Bengal 46 554 400 2 1000 3314932 6498
OAE
All - India 57 450 494 3 1000 20844151 89896
Trade
West Bengal 6 302 692 0 1000 2344085 7350
OAE
All - India 8 188 804 1 1000 24506000 107257
Other Services
West Bengal 92 367 541 0 1000 2425471 7670
OAE
All - India 195 271 534 2 1000 24413878 112888
All
West Bengal 48 424 527 1 1000 8084488 21518
OAE
All - India 88 295 617 2 1000 69764030 310041
Manufacturing
West Bengal 1 48 951 0 1000 1691330 30242
Establishment
All - India 3 67 930 1 1000 14044283 219927
Trade
West Bengal 2 93 905 0 1000 1033422 8897
Establishment
All - India 2 51 947 0 1000 9623274 105297
Other Services
West Bengal 12 163 825 0 1000 1050419 14351
Establishment
All - India 9 191 800 1 1000 14547288 247868
All
West Bengal 4 92 903 0 1000 3775171 53490
Establishment
All - India 5 110 885 1 1000 38214845 573092
Manufacturing
West Bengal 31 383 586 1 1000 5006261 36740
All
All - India 35 296 669 2 1000 34888434 309823
Trade
West Bengal 5 238 757 0 1000 3377507 16247
All
All - India 7 149 844 1 1000 34129274 212554
Other Services
West Bengal 68 305 627 0 1000 3475890 22021
All
All - India 125 242 633 1 1000 38961167 360756
All
West Bengal 34 319 647 1 1000 11859658 75008
All
All - India 59 230 712 1 1000 107978875 883133

Table 7.1: Average wage/ salary earnings (Rs. 0.00) per day received by employees of age 15-59 years

Regular wage/ salaried employees (activity status codes: 31, 71, 72)
Rural Urban
West Bengal 297.35 119.76 247.99 454.61 323.56 424.85
All – India 322.28 201.56 298.96 469.87 366.15 449.65
Casual labours engaged in public works other than MGNREG public works (activity status codes: 41)
West Bengal 124.42 133.44 124.93
All - India 127.39 110.62 121.46
Casual labours engaged in MGNREG public works (activity status codes: 42)
West Bengal 126.45 130.95 127.27
All - India 112.46 101.97 106.71
Casual labours engaged in works other than public works (activity status codes: 51)
West Bengal 123.92 100.46 120.92 134.58 89.56 128.24
All - India 149.32 103.28 138.62 182.04 110.62 170.10
Year: 2009-10
West Bengal 180.21 97.29 164.76 391.77 277.08 371.09
All – India 249.15 155.87 231.59 377.16 308.79 364.93
Casual labours engaged in public works other than MGNREG public works (activity status codes: 41)
West Bengal 88.61 82.81 87
All - India 98.33 86.11 93.11
Casual labours engaged in MGNREG public works (activity status codes: 42)
West Bengal 76.25 100 78.09
All - India 90.93 87.20 89.03
West Bengal 87.76 65.94 85.33 98.98 78.46 96.86
All - India 101.53 68.94 93.06 131.92 76..73 121.83

Table 7.1(contd.): Average wage/ salary earnings (Rs. 0.00) per day received by employees of age 15-59 years

Rural Urban
West Bengal 160.24 62.89 132.30 268.95 172.45 250.72
All - India 175.30 108.14 162.94 276.04 212.86 265.18
Casual labours (activity status codes: 41, 42 and 51)
West Bengal 68.83 55.82 67.35 85.96 52.6 82.4
All - India 75.30 51.17 68.30 104.63 59.57 95.56
Year: 2005-06
West Bengal 140.99 62.52 123.69 220.28 120.76 202.99
All - India 138.74 87.71 130.02 205.81 158.23 197.09
Casual labours (activity status codes: 41, 51)
West Bengal 52.44 40.81 50.99 78.79 54.94 76.33
All - India 59.29 37.97 52.91 80.70 44.57 74.37
Year: 2004-05
West Bengal 143.39 53.07 120.25 198.19 129.35 185.39
All – India 144.93 85.53 133.81 203.28 153.19 193.73
Casual workers engaged in public works (activity status code: 41)
West Bengal 95.16 49.79 87.45
All - India 65.33 49.19 59.33
West Bengal 49.88 39.99 48.38 64.00 32.95 60.54
All - India 55.03 34.94 48.89 75.10 43.88 68.68
Source: NSS Report No.554, 537, 531, 522, 515p-1

Table 7.2: Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per hired rural worker by enterprise type in unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises during 2010-11
Enterprise Type Sector Annual emoluments (Rs.) per hired worker Estimated total number of hired workers Number of enterprise
Formal Informal All Formal Informal All Estimated Sample
Manufacturing
OAE West Bengal 0 31467 31467 0 7292 7292 2002647 3019
OAE India 0 27639 27639 0 68476 68476 9138228 35673
Trade
OAE West Bengal 0 18490 18490 0 2141 2141 1166225 3311
OAE India 0 24418 24418 0 34521 34521 9953886 42009
Other Services
OAE West Bengal 0 22960 22960 0 1692 1692 1250310 3454
OAE India 0 29284 29284 0 73748 73748 9153903 39922
All
OAE West Bengal 0 27676 27676 0 11125 11125 4419183 9784
OAE India 0 27696 27696 0 176745 176745 28246018 117604
Manufacturing
Establishment West Bengal 44951 27655 27885 9765 725499 735264 159101 2419
Establishment India 33671 32122 32235 283309 3623185 3906493 976854 15935
Trade
Other Services
All
Manufacturing
All West Bengal 44951 27693 27920 9765 732791 742556 2161748 5438
All India 33671 32039 32156 283309 3691660 3974969 10115082 51608
Trade
All West Bengal 18366 24614 24586 459 103997 104456 1239538 4538
All India 44296 38251 38885 107913 920920 1028833 10564618 52375
Other Services
All West Bengal 57035 25661 26486 3628 134290 137917 1314838 4727
All India 67096 35474 40849 532665 2601375 3134040 10211394 58392
All
All West Bengal 47234 27082 27366 13852 971077 984929 4716124 14703
All India 54183 34071 36354 923887 7213956 8137842 30891093 162375

Table 7.3: Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per urban hired worker by enterprise type in unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises during 2010-11
Manufacturing
OAE West Bengal 0 16227 16227 0 6846 6846 429831 1808
OAE India 0 34180 34180 0 76423 76423 5291761 27632
Trade
OAE West Bengal 0 19862 19862 0 19158 19158 775378 2685
OAE India 0 32822 32822 0 99951 99951 7870356 35779
Other Services
OAE West Bengal 0 26638 26638 0 7466 7466 785781 2899
OAE India 0 68112 68112 0 116721 116721 7402353 38205
All
OAE West Bengal 0 20630 20630 0 33470 33470 1990990 7392
OAE India 0 47230 47230 0 293095 293095 20564470 101616
Manufacturing
Trade
Other Services
All
Manufacturing
All West Bengal 61665 34456 35391 18802 528500 547302 602306 3604
All India 52249 48545 48767 386577 6072657 6459234 7095188 47674
Trade
All West Bengal 56710 31754 32335 12773 536128 548902 1023434 4414
All India 59732 45719 47057 474187 4490645 5964832 10186086 57924
Other Services
All West Bengal 120899 37179 48901 88251 542052 630303 946138 4792
All India 89535 48429 57053 1573144 5924942 7498086 9500939 66501
All
All West Bengal 104762 34473 39352 119827 1606680 1726507 2571877 12810
All India 77807 47734 51602 2433908 16488245 18922152 26782213 172099

Table 7.4: Annual emoluments (in Rs.) per hired worker by enterprise type in unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises during 2010-11
Manufacturing
OAE West Bengal 0 24088 24088 0 14138 14138 2432478 4827
OAE India 0 31089 31089 0 144898 144898 14429989 63305
Trade
OAE West Bengal 0 19724 19724 0 21299 21299 1941603 5996
OAE India 0 30664 30664 0 134473 134473 17824242 77788
Other Services
OAE West Bengal 0 25959 25959 0 9158 9158 2036092 6353
OAE India 0 53078 53078 0 190470 190470 16556256 78127
All
OAE West Bengal 0 22388 22388 0 44595 44595 6410172 17176
OAE India 0 39882 39882 0 469840 469840 48810487 219220
Manufacturing
Trade
Other Services
All
Manufacturing
All West Bengal 55951 30527 31090 28568 1261291 1289858 2764054 9042
All India 44392 42305 42439 669886 9764317 10434203 17210269 99282
Trade
All West Bengal 55379 30594 31096 13233 640125 653358 2262971 8952
All India 56870 44448 45654 582100 5411565 5993665 20750704 110299
Other Services
All West Bengal 118378 34892 44877 91879 676342 768221 2260976 9519
All India 83859 44477 52277 2105809 8526318 10632126 19712332 124893
All
All West Bengal 98801 31689 34998 133680 2577757 2711437 7288002 27513
All India 71307 43575 47016 3357794 23702200 27059995 57673306 334474

Table 8.1: Number of accidents in West Bengal
Year Number of accidents (all factories)

Fatal Non-Fatal Total
2009 65 18947 19012
2010 97 19264 19361
2011-12 87 17835 17922
2012 -13 71 17756 17827
2013-14 77(P) 19250 19327
Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13 and 2013-14
Table 8.2: Industry-wise number of accidents in West Bengal
Year Jute Engineering Cotton Chemical

Total Incidence % of total Total Incidence % of total Total Incidence % of total Total Incidence % of total
Rate (per West Rate (per West Rate (per West Rate (per West
1000 Bengal 1000 Bengal 1000 Bengal 1000 Bengal
workers) accidents workers) accidents workers) accidents workers) accidents
2009 10830 50.54 56.96 3423 9.98 18.00 2254 47.45 11.85 720 17.85 3.78
2010 10877 50.71 56.71 3438 9.80 17.75 2264 48.36 11.69 723 17.75 3.73
2011-12 10128 47.14 56.5 3708 10.13 17.17 2197 44.5 12.26 774 18.95 4.44
2012-13 10120 47.13 56.76 4234 10.09 23.75 2332 48.03 13.08 1145 20.95 6.42
2013-14 10112 46.98 52.32 4760 10.05 24.63 2467 49.14 12.76 1516 20.87 7.84

Table 8.3: Cause-wise number of accidents in West Bengal
Year: 2009 Year: 2010 Year: 2011-12 Year: 2012-13 Year: 2013-14
% of % of % of % of % of
Cause
No. Total No. Total No. Total No. Total No. Total
accidents accidents accidents accidents accidents
Machinery 6945 36.52 7073 36.53 6792 38.92 7849 36.86 6781 35.09
Struck by falling body 1814 9.54 1847 9.54 1630 9.34 2143 10.06 2051 10.61
Stepping on or striking
2909 15.30 2963 15.30 2486 14.25 2567 12.06 2356 12.19
against object
Handling of goods 1578 8.29 1607 8.30 1332 7.36 1889 8.87 1544 7.99
Persons falling 2363 12.42 2407 12.43 2150 12.32 3214 15.09 3212 16.62
Hand Tools 1636 8.60 1666 8.61 1978 11.34 1883 8.84 1994 10.32
Fires 38 0.19 39 0.20 36 0.21 48 0.23 37 0.19
Gassing 24 0.12 24 0.31 21 0.12 38 0.18 24 0.12
Others 1705 8.97 1736 8.97 1025 5.87 1663 7.81 1328 6.87

Table 8.4: Agency-wise distribution of fatal accidents in West Bengal
Agencies Year
2009 2010 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 (P)
Prime movers, steam, gas and other engines, electric motors - 0 - 1 3
(not electric shocks)
Transmission machinery 10 5 5 5 5
Lifting machinery 1 4 1 - 1
Machine Tools for metal working 1 1 1 - -
Wood working machinery - 0 - - -
Rollers of calenders, mixer, etc. not for metals or wood working - 0 5 2 2
Other machinery moved by mechanical power 2 15 4 4 7
Railways 1 2 - - -
Other vehicles - - - - -
Electricity 2 7 11 7 13
Explosion - 5 2 4 8
Fires - 1 - 1 3
Gassing 3 - - - 1
Molten Metal, other hot or corrosive substances 2 10 3 6 2
Machinery not moved by mechanical power - 1 3 - -
Use of hand tools - - - - -
Struck by falling bodies 7 4 6 7 -
Persons falling 20 27 27 31 20
Stepping on or striking against the object 7 5 9 2 -
Handling goods or articles 4 3 1 1 -
Others 5 7 9 0 12
Total 65 97 87 71 77

Table 8.5: Industrywise distribution of fatal accidents in West Bengal

Agencies Year
2009 2010 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Manufacture of food products 2 8 11 2 4
Manufacture of beverages, tobacco & tobacco products 2 6 2 2 8
Manufacture of cotton textiles - 1 - 1 1
Manufacture of wool, silk & man-made fibre textiles - 0 - - -
Manufacture of jute & other fibre textiles 4 7 13 5 7
Manufacture of textile products - 0 - 1 -
Manufacture of wood & wood products, Furniture & Fixtures - 0 - - -
Manufacture of paper & paper products & printing, publishing and allied industries 6 1 1 2 3
Manufacture of leather & leather products & fur etc. - 0 - 1 1
Manufacture of basic chemicals & chemical products including fire works 3 0 2 10 2
Manufacture of rubber, plastics, petroleum & coal products, processing of nuclear fuels 1 7 3 4 3
Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products - 4 5 - -
Manufacture of basic metals and alloy industries 20 40 31 34 32
Manufacture of metal products & parts, except machinery and transport equipment - 4 - - 1
Manufacture of machinery & equipment other than transport equipment including
2 2 4 6 8
electrical machinery
Manufacture of transport equipment & parts 7 0 4 2 -
Repair of capital goods - 0 - - -
Electricity generation, transmission & distribution 18 16 11 14 7
Gas & steam generation & distribution through pipes - 1 - 4 -
Water works & supply - 0 - - -
Storage and warehousing services - 0 - - -
Service incidental to transport - 0 - - -
Repair services - 0 - - -
Total 65 97 87 71 77

Table 8.6: Cause-wise distribution of Jute Mill Accidents in West Bengal
Total Percentage of accidents caused by Jute Percentage of accidents caused by factors other than
No. of machinery (% over total Jute Mill accidents) Jute machinery(% over total Jute Mill accidents)
Year accidents
Spinning Winding Hand Falling Persons Manual
in jute Looms Others Totals Others Total
machines machines Tools Objects falling handling
mills
2009 10830 13.98 11.58 10.87 12.30 48.73 8.49 7.20 9.85 7.65 18.02 51.21
2010 10877 13.99 11.58 10.88 12.31 48.76 8.49 7.20 8.86 7.67 19.02 51.24
2011-12 10128 14.01 12.16 9.85 12.16 48.18 8.87 7.29 9.96 7.67 18.01 51.8
2012-13 11954 14.34 13.21 11.98 12.75 52.28 5.90 4.52 5.34 4.43 27.53 47.72
2013-14 10112 14.21 13.16 11.74 12.03 51.14 5.17 4.87 5.08 4.14 29.6 48.86
Table 8.7: Employment position of safety officers in factories in West Bengal
No. of factories notified for No. of safety officers actually

Year No. of safety officers required
employment of safety officers employed
2009 252 278 266
2010 252 278 134
2011-12 252 283 108
2012-13 254 278 172
2013-14 254 289 168

Table 8.8: Boilers & Economisers Statistics of West Bengal
Items Year
2009 2010 2011 2012-13 2013-14
No. of Boilers & Economisers Inspected 1585 1509 1517 1855 1711
No. of Boilers & Economisers Certified 1434 1380 1207 1636 1615
No. of Boilers & Economisers Recommended for Repair 290 131 86 105 90
No. of Boilers exempted from the purview of Indian Boilers Act, 1923 9 9 7 0 0
No. of Boilers & Economisers transferred from the state 9 1 1 1 1
No. of Boilers & Economisers shifted to this state 29 19 7 9 3
No. of Boilers & Economisers Certified on completion of manufacture 19 30 34 25 39
Mountings and fittings inspected and certified 54000 71289 69365 93046 16603
Steam and feed pipes inspected and certified 152 161 153 157 200
No. of Boilers & Economisers registered 110 93 103 113 157
No. of drawings examined and approved 1732 2642 2847 2381 2418
No. of documents examined and endorsed 3314 1907 1951 2455 1422
No. of accidents 0 0 0 0 0
Revenue receipt (Rs. in lakh) 205.43 222.00 184.53 218.32 190.00

Table 9.1: Number of Registered Trade Unions in West Bengal
Year No. of registered trade unions Total no. of workmen involved

2010 523 53705
2011 919 256128
2012 784 77138
2013 413 28648
Table 9.2: Conduction of Election for the Recognition of Trade Unions

in West Bengal
No. of establishments where election Total no. of workmen

Year
were conducted involved
2012 17 15526
2013 6* 5685
* Excluding 1 uncontested Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13 and 2013-14
Table 9.3: Report on the Trade Unions of West Bengal
Sl. Year
Particulars
No. 2012 2013
1 No. of applications for registration of new trade unions
2192 138
brought forwarded from the previous year
922 576
received during the year
3114 714
handled during the year
4 No. of trade unions registered during the year 784 413
5 No. of applications for registration of trade unions pending at
2330 301
the end of the year
6 Fees realised for new registration of trade unions (in Rs.) 3920 1825
7 No. of trade unions cancelled during the year 2096 2
8 No. of Live Registered Trade Unions as on 31 st December 11833 12196
9 No. of Annual Returns submitted by the Trade Unions during
2617 3430
the year
10 For Amendment
(a) No. of Partial Alteration done during the year 14 27
(b) Realised Fees (in Rs.) 14 27

Table 9.3 (contd.): Report on the Trade Unions of West Bengal
Sl. Year
Particulars
No. 2012 2013
11 For issuance of Certified Copy of Rules and Constitution
(a) No. of Certified Copy of Rules and Constitution was issued
4 16
during the year
12 For issuance of Duplicate Registration Certificate
(a) No. of Duplicate Registration Certificate was issued during
23 92
the year
13 Recognition of Trade Unions
(a) No. of applications brought forwarded from the previous
2 9
year
(b) No. of applications received during the year 24 14
(c) No. of election conducted during the year 17 7
(d) No. of applications rejected - -
(e) No. of applications pending at the end of the year 9 16
(f) Amount of rupees realised for recognition during the year 13550 5000
14 Right to Information Act, 2005
(a) Total No. of application for information have been received as
sought for by various applicants under Right to Information Act, 73 87
2005 during the year
(b) Total No. of Information under Right to Information Act,
73 87
2005 disposed of during the year
15 Annual Report on Court Case
(a) No. of Court Case received during the year 13 15
(b) No. of Court Case disposed during the year 2 2
(c) No. of Court Case pending during the year 11 13

Table 10.1: Particulars of Work Stoppage (Strikes and Lockouts) in different years in West Bengal
Year Strikes Lockouts All Combined

No. of Cases No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of
(% to all workers mandays Cases workers mandays Cases workers mandays
combined) involved lost (% to all involved lost (in involved lost
(in ‘000) (in million) combined) (in ‘000) million) (in ‘000) (in million)
2010 15(5.28) 262.69 9.38 269(94.72) 105.89 15.19 284 368.58 24.57
2011 5(1.78) 1.36 0.06 276(98.22) 90.11 14.87 284 91.47 14.93
2012(January – - - - 269(100) 67.11 3.69 269 67.11 3.59
March)
2012-13 1(0.34) 0.03 0.005 294(99.66) 90.75 15.70 295 90.78 15.70
2013-14 - - - 297(100.0) 93.10 15.03 297 93.10 15.03

Table 10.2: Strikes and Lockout by causes in West Bengal
Causes Strikes Lockouts All Combined

No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of
No. of Cases No. of workers No. of
Cases (% to workers mandays No. of workers mandays
(% to all involved (in mandays lost
all involved lost (in Cases involved lost (in
combined) lakh) (in million)
combined) (in lakh) million) (in lakh) million)
Year: 2012-13 (Provisional)
Wages & Allowances - - - 3 0.006 - 3 0.06 -
Bonus 1 0.03 0.005 1 0.22 - 2 0.25 -
Go-Slow - - - 4 2.62 - 4 2.62 -
Uneconomic running,
technological obsolence, loss
of economical viability,
- - - 140 22.98 - 140 22.98 -
Management’s intention to
reduce working
compliments etc.
Charter of demands - - - 12 4.79 - 12 4.79 -
Alleged indiscipline - - - 112 56.61 - 112 56.61 -
Miscellaneous - - - 22 3.47 - 22 3.47 -
All combined 1 0.03 0.005 294 90.75 15.70 295 90.78 15.705

Table 10.2(contd.): Strikes and Lockout by causes in West Bengal
Causes Strikes Lockouts All Combined

No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of
Cases (% workers mandays Cases (% workers mandays No. of workers mandays
to all involved lost (in to all involved lost (in Cases involved lost (in
combined) (in lakh) million) combined) (in lakh) million) (in lakh) million)
Year: 2013-14 (Provisional)
Wages & Allowances - - - 3 0.06 - 3 0.06 -
Bonus - - - 1 0.22 - 1 0.22 -
Go-Slow - - - 3 2.22 - 3 2.22 -
Uneconomic running,
technological obsolence,
loss of economical
- - - 154 35.50 - 154 35.50 -
viability, Management’s
intention to reduce
working compliments etc.
Charter of demands - - - 11 0.79 - 11 0.79 -
Alleged indiscipline - - - 104 50.86 - 104 50.86 -
Miscellaneous - - - 21 3.44 - 21 3.44 -
All combined - - - 297 93.09 15.03 297 93.09 15.03

Table 10.3: Region-wise position of work stoppage (Strikes and Lockouts) in West Bengal
Region Total Cases Total Cases terminated Cases continuing at the end of the year
No. of men involved No. of men involved No. of men involved
No. No. No.
(in thousand) (in thousand) (in thousand)
2012-13 (P)
Kolkata(North) 7 0.99 - - 7 0.99
Kolkata(Central) 19 2.78 - - 19 2.78
Kolkata(South) 35 12.54 2 6.38 33 6.16
Howrah 48 17.00 12 9.84 36 7.16
Hooghly 53 23.21 3 16.00 50 7.21
Barrackpur 33 6.88 1 0.40 32 6.48
Durgapur 26 4.42 2 0.83 24 3.58
Nadia 35 10.53 3 4.59 32 5.94
Murshidabad 1 0.03 - - 1 0.03
Midnapore 8 1.42 - - 8 1.42
Siliguri 18 2.26 1 0.14 17 2.12
Jalpaiguri 12 8.72 5 6.07 7 2.63
Total 295 90.78 29 44.25 266 46.53
2013-14 (P)
Kolkata(North) 8 1.01 - - 8 1.01
Kolkata(Central) 19 2.78 - - 19 2.78
Kolkata(South) 42 9.42 5 2.67 37 6.75
Howrah 42 18.27 2 3.11 40 15.16
Hooghly 50 12.81 1 4.00 49 8.81
Barrackpur 37 19.83 2 5.80 35 14.03
Durgapur 28 5.51 1 0.10 27 5.41
Nadia 32 5.94 - - 32 5.94
Murshidabad 1 0.03 - - 1 0.03
Midnapore 10 2.87 - - 10 2.87
Siliguri 13 1.47 1 0.77 12 0.70
Jalpaiguri 15 13.15 9 11.52 6 1.63
Total 297 93.09 21 27.97 276 65.12

Table 10.4: Work Stoppage (Strikes and Lockouts) by selected industry in West Bengal
Year Strikes Lockouts All Combined
No. of Cases (% to No. of workers No. of mandays lost No. of Cases No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of
all combined) involved (in lakh) (in million) (% to all workers mandays Cases workers mandays
combined) involved (in lost (in involved (in lost (in
lakh) million) lakh) million)
Tea Industry
2010 19 14.17 15.44 19 14.17 15.44
2011 15 10.91 8.73 15 10.91 8.73
2012 (January to March) 10 6.80 0.29 10 6.80 0.29
2012-2013 13 10.13 0.88 13 10.13 0.88
2013-2014(P) 12 13.82 3.44 12 13.82 3.44
Jute Industry
2010 4 2.58 9.32 16 0.56 4.16 20 3.14 13.48

2011 12 0.40 4.56 12 0.40 4.56
2012 (January to March) 8 0.25 0.77 8 0.25 0.77
2012-2013 12 0.42 4.29 12 0.42 4.29
2013-2014(P) 16 0.39 3.41 16 0.39 3.41
Engineering (Major, i.e employing 250 & above employees) Industry
2010 4 4.35 0.18 17 10.95 2.05 21 15.30 2.23
2011 19 13.32 2.23 19 13.32 2.23
2012 (January to March) 18 8.28 0.63 18 8.28 0.63
2012-2013 20 9.38 2.52 20 9.38 2.52
2013-2014(P) 20 9.33 2.63 20 9.33 2.63
Engineering (Minor, i.e employing less than 250 employees) Industry
2010 3 0.08 0.02 64 4.23 1.32 67 4.31 1.34
2011 1 0.03 0.006 65 4.66 1.29 66 4.69 1.30
2012 (January to March) 62 4.47 0.34 62 4.47 0.34
2012-2013 1 0.03 0.005 69 4.95 1.40 70 4.98 1.405
2013-2014(P) 63 4.54 1.39 63 4.54 1.39
Cotton & Textile Industry
2010 18 5.95 1.81 18 5.95 1.81
2011 20 9.09 2.45 20 9.09 2.45
2012 (January to March) 23 10.07 0.70 23 10.07 0.70
2012-2013 22 8.87 2.67 22 8.87 2.67
2013-2014(P) 22 9.89 2.68 22 9.89 2.68

Table 11.1: Particulars of Implementation of Labour Law in West Bengal
Year Minimum Wage Act Other labour laws Total
infringements
infringements
infringements
prosecutions
prosecutions
prosecutions
Inspections
Inspections
Inspections
conducted
conducted
conducted
launched
launched
launched
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
2010 6773 1907 262 4868 1477 76 11641 3384 338
2011 5170 2307 440 5739 2042 169 10909 4349 609
2012-13 5821 3352 746 7424 3982 773 13245 7333 1519
2013-14 8397 7880 1337 8813 6543 1060 17210 14423 2397
Table 11.2: Statement of disposals of court cases under 11 labour legislations in West Bengal
Sl. Particulars Year

No. 2010 2011 2012-13 2013-14
1 No. of court cases pending at the beginning of the year 3048 3182 3663 4745
2 No. of court cases launched 338 609 1519 2397
3 No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction 201 128 432 548
4 No. of court cases ended in acquittal 03 0 5 19
5 No. of court cases pending at the end of the year 3182 3663 4745 6575

Table 11.3: Statement of claim cases under section 20 of the Minimum Wage Act, 1948 and Sec. 15 of Payment of
wages Act, 1936 (filed by Inspectors) in West Bengal
Sl. Particulars Year

No. 2010 2011 2012-13 2013-14
1 No. of claim cases pending at the beginning of the year 66 66 66 68
2 No. of claim cases filed during the year Nil Nil 2 12
3 No. of claim cases disposed during the year Nil Nil Nil 0
4 No. of claim cases pending 66 66 68 80
5 No. of claim applications settled at the intervention of the officers of the Labour 2 Nil Nil 38
Directorate
6 Amount of money realized and paid to workers at such intervention (in Rs.) 2700 Nil Nil 1952053

Table 11.4: Particulars of Inspection etc. under different acts in West Bengal
Sl. No. Particulars Year

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
Payment of Wages Act, 1936

1. No. of Inspection conducted 231 1458 2070
2(a) No. of infringements detected 120 724 1917
2(b) No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the previous year 299 310 334
2(c) Total no. of infringements handled ((a)+(b)) 419 1034 2251
3 No. of infringements let off after compliances 81 547 1164
4 No. of court cases launched 28 153 324
5 No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the year 310 334 1226
6 No. of court cases brought forward from the previous year 810 838 814
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction Nil 177 46
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal Nil Nil 6
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) Nil 118700 84500
9 No. of court cases pending disposal at the end of the year 838 814 1086
10 No. of claim cases brought forward from the previous year Nil 8 0
11 No. of claim cases filed during the year Nil 2 0
12 No. of claim cases disposed of during the year Nil Nil 0
13 No. of claim cases pending at courts at the end of the year Nil 8 0
14 No. of claim applications disposed off at the intervention of the Labour
2 Nil 2
Directorate Officers
15 Amount of money paid to the workers at such intervention (in Rs.) 2700 Nil 98745

Table 11.4 (contd.): Particulars of Inspection etc. under different acts in West Bengal
2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
Plantation Labor Act, 1951

3 No. of infringements let off after compliances
4 No. of court cases launched 201 72
5 No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction 104 12
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal 0
7(c) No. of court cases disposed of by way of withdrawal 0
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) 671000 45000

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
Motor Transport Workers Act,1961

2(a) No. of infringements detected 334 218
4 No. of court cases launched Nil 117 34
5 No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the year 18 66 60

2012 (January - 2012 - 2013 2013-14

March)
The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
1. No. of Inspection conducted Nil 397 694
2(a) No. of infringements detected Nil 242 81
2(b) No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the
31 31 40
previous year
3 No. of infringements let off after compliances Nil 226 50
5 No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the
31 40 47
year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction Nil Nil 1
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) Nil Nil 250
9 No. of court cases pending disposal at the end of the year
119 126 149
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970

675 494 761
previous year
494 761 893
year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction 06 43 144
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) 18000 75050 208800
640 1046 1507
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

234 210 257
previous year
4 No. of court cases launched Nil Nil 1
210 257 383
year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction Nil Nil Nil
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal Nil Nil Nil
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) Nil Nil Nil
- 54 55
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The West Bengal Workmen’s House Rent Allowance Act, 1974

32 32 39
previous year
32 39 65
year
04 06 9
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

22 22 38
previous year
3 No. of infringements let off after compliances -- 32 26
4 No. of court cases launched Nil Nil 2
22 38 50
year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.)
8 8 10
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Sales Promotion Employees (Condition of Service) Act, 1976

1. No. of Inspection conducted Nil 43 23
13 13 7
previous year
Nil Nil 6
year
6 No. of court cases brought forward from the previous year Nil Nil 2
Nil 2 2
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment & Condition of Service) Act, 1979
- 59 243
previous year
2(c) Total no. of infringements handled ((a)+(b)) - 259 335
- 243 240
year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction Nil Nil Nil
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal Nil Nil Nil
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) Nil Nil Nil
- 12 41
((4)+(6)-(7))

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986

28 16 2
previous year
5 Number of infringement cases pending at the end of the
16 02 13
year
6 Number of prosecution cases pending in courts at the
60 69 93
beginning of the year
7 (a) No. of court cases disposed of by way of conviction Nil 01 Nil
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal Nil 04 Nil
8 Amount of fine imposed by courts (in Rs.) Nil 10,000 Nil
9 Number of prosecution cases pending in courts at the end
69 93 108
of the year

2012 (January - March) 2012 - 2013 2013-14
The Building and Other Construction Workers’ Act , 1996

2(b) No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the 72 29 109
previous year
5 No. of infringements pending disposal at the end of the 29 109 439
year
7(b) No. of court cases disposed of by way of acquittal 0
((4)+(6)-(7))

Table 11.5: Monthly Minimum Wages (Basic+DA) in different schedules of employments under the Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 as on 31st March, 2013 in West Bengal
Sl. No. Name of the Employment Minimum Wages in Rs. for categories of employment
Area Covered Highly
Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled
Skilled
1A Agriculture: Per day without food West Bengal 183.00 201.00 221.00
1B Agriculture: Per day with food 170.00 188.00 208.00
1C Agriculture: Per month without food 4748.00 5223.00 5746.00
2 Bakery Zone A 5739.00
Zone B 5395.00
3 Beedi Leaf Plucking West Bengal 4748.00 5223.00 5746.00
4 Beedi Making : Per 1000 Beedi Rolled Kolkata,
24 Pgs(N), 190.55
24 Pgs(S)
Howrah &
172.89
Hooghly
Other districts 170.90
5 Bell Metal Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00

Table 11.5(contd.): Monthly Minimum Wages (Basic+DA) in different schedules of employments under the
Minimum Wages Act, 1948 as on 31st March, 2013 in West Bengal
Area Covered Highly
Skilled
6 Brick Manufacturing : without firewood & Kolkata and 24
4733.00 4833.00 5033.00
accommodation Pgs
Howrah &
4417 4517.00 4717.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 4839.00 4939.00 5139.00
Darjeeling except
Siliguri Sub- 3863.00 3963.00 4163.00
Divn.
Jalpaiguri,
Siliguri Sub-
3658.00 3758.00 3958.00
Divn. &
Coochbehar
Bankura,
Midnapore & 4529.00 4629.00 4829.00
Purulia
Birbhum 4478.00 4578.00 4778.00
Nadia &
4551.00 4651.00 4851.00
Mushidabad
Malda &
4281.00 4381.00 4581.00
Dinajpur

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
7 Brick Manufacturing : with firewood & accommodation Kolkata and 24
4633.00 4733.00 4933.00
Pgs
Howrah &
4317.00 4417.00 4617.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 4739.00 4839.00 5039.00
Darjeeling except
Siliguri Sub- 3763.00 3863.00 4063.00
Divn.
Jalpaiguri,
Siliguri Sub-
3558.00 3658.00 3858.00
Divn. &
Coochbehar
Bankura,
Midnapore & 4429.00 4529.00 4629.00
Purulia
Birbhum 4378.00 4478.00 4678.00
Nadia &
4451.00 4551.00 4751.00
Mushidabad
Malda &
4181.00 4281.00 4481.00
Dinajpur
8 Ceramics Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
9 Chakki Mills Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
10 Chartered/ Cost Accountants, Auditors etc. Firms West Bengal 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
11 Cigarette Manufacturing West Bengal Rates are now Governed by Agreement
12 Cinchona Plantation West Bengal 4748.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
13 Cinema Industries: Distribution Units Peon, Broker,
Representative, Accountant,
Sweeper, Salesman,
Field Inspector Cashier
West Bengal Mali, Bearer, Asst.
etc. Stenographer,
Durwan Manager
3772.75 3841.00 3882.88
Cinema Industries: Production Side (Studio) Assistant,
Office boy, 2nd d Assistant, Cameraman,
3 Assistant,
rd
Durwan, Cameraman , Asst.
West Bengal Cameraman etc.
Mali etc. clerk etc. Manager
etc.
3772.75 3812.23 3851.71 3966.00
Cinema Industries: Exhibition Units Head
Peon,
Kolkata & Asst. Engn., Operator,
Durwan, Doorman, Lift
Howrah Driver, Clerk Head
Poster boy man etc.
Municipal etc. Electrician
etc.
Corporation Area etc.
3772.75 3789.37 3862.10 4007.56
Cities having 1
lakh or more 3753.01 3773.79 3825.93 3955.61
population
Other Moffusal
3747.81 3758.20 3810.12 3905.46
Areas
14 Clinical Nursing Home Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00 7180.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
15 Construction and Maintenance of Roads or Building Highly
Operations Skilled
Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00 7180.00
16 Dal Mill Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
17 Decoration Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
18 Fishery West Bengal 4748.00
19 Flour Mill Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00 7180.00
20 Forestry or Timbering Operation West Bengal 4748.00
21 Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
22 Glass Industry West Bengal 4890.00 4910.00 4960.00 5015.00
23 Security Services Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
24 Godown Zone A 5739.00
Zone B 5395.00
25 Handloom West Bengal 4748.00
26 Hosiery Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
27 Hotel and Restaurants including boarding and eating Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
houses employing not more than 20 persons Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00 7180.00
28 Lac Manufactories West Bengal 4748.00 5223.00 5746.00
29 Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona West Bengal 4748.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
30 Oil Mills Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
31 Paints and Chemical Factories Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00 7638.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00 7180.00
32 Paper Board and Straw Board Manufacturing Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
33 Plastic Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
34 Plywood Industries Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
35 Power Loom (10 or more persons) Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
36 Power Loom (less than 10 persons) Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
37 Printing Press Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
38 Public Motor Transport West Bengal 5850.20 5903.20 5911.20 5982.00
39 Refractory Industry West Bengal 4786.00 4846.00 4906.00 4966.00
40 Rice Mill West Bengal 4748.00 5223.00 5746.00 6321.00
41 Rope Industry Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00

Sl. No. Name of the Employment Area Covered Minimum Wages in Rs. for categories of employment
Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled Highly
Skilled
42 Rubber and Rubber Products Manufacturing Kolkata & 4909.00 4920.00 4946.00
24 Pgs
Howrah & 4493.00 4504.00 4530.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 4878.00 4889.00 4915.00
Darleeing except 3742.00 3753.00 3779.00
Siliguri Sub.
Divn.
Jalpaiguri, 3474.00 3485.00 3511.00
Siliguri Sub-
Divn. &
Coochbehar
Bankura, 4552.00 4563.00 4589.00
Midnapore &
Purulia
Birbhum 4547.00 4558.00 4584.00
Nadia & 4488.00 4499.00 4525.00
Murshidabad
Malda & 4328.00 4339.00 4365.00
Dinajpur
43 Salt Manufacturing Industry West Bengal 4748.00 5223.00 5746.00 6321.00
44 Saw Mill Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
45 Sericulture, Nursery & Cultivation (per day) West Bengal 183.00
Silk Spinning and/or Weaving (per month) West Bengal 4748.00
46 Shoe Making Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00

Skilled
47 Silk Mills Zone A 5739.00
Zone B 5395.00
48 Silk Printing Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
49 Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
50 Sweeping & Cleaning Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
51 Tailoring Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
52 Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing Zone A 5739.00 6313.00 6944.00
Zone B 5395.00 5933.00 6527.00
53 Tobacco Godown West Bengal 4748.00
Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13
Note: Zone A: Areas notified under (i) Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), (ii) Asansol Municipal Corporation, (iii) Durgapur Municipal Corporation,
(iv) Siliguri Municipal Corporation, (v) Digha-Shankarpur Development Authority, (vi) Thermal Power Plants Areas including Township Areas, (vii) All the Municipal
Areas of different districts, (viii) All the sub-divisions in districts Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan and 24 Pgs(N) [excluding Barasat and Bashirhat], (ix) Alipur & Baruipur
Sub-Divn of 24 Pgs(S), (x) Midnapur Sadar and Kharagpur Sub-Divn. Of Midnapur(W), (xi) Siliguri Sub-Divn. Of Darjeeling District, (xii) Bankura and Bishnupur Sub-
Divn of Bankura District and (xiii) Raghunathpur Sub-Divn. Of Purulia District and Zone B: Rest of West Bengal.

Table 11.6: Monthly Minimum Wages (Basic+DA) in different schedules of employments under the Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 as on 31st March, 2014 in West Bengal
Area Covered Highly
Skilled
1A Agriculture: Per day without food West Bengal 191.00 211.00 234.00
1B Agriculture: Per day with food 206.00 226.00 249.00
1C Agriculture: Per month without food 5347.00 5882.00 6471.00
2 Bakery Zone A 6370.00
Zone B 6075.00
3 Beedi Leaf Plucking West Bengal 5347.00 5882.00 6471.00
4 Bell Metal Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
5 Bone Meal Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
6 Brick Manufacturing : without firewood & accommodation Kolkata and 24
5188.00 5288.00 5488.00
Pgs
Howrah &
4803.00 4903.00 5426.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 5326.00 5426.00 5626.00
Darjeeling except
4156.00 4256.00 4456.00
Siliguri Sub-Divn.
Jalpaiguri, Siliguri
Sub-Divn. & 4027.00 4127.00 4327.00
Coochbehar
Bankura,
Midnapore & 4827.00 4927.00 5127.00
Purulia
Birbhum 4813.00 4913.00 5113.00
Nadia &
4926.00 5026.00 5226.00
Mushidabad
Malda & Dinajpur 4704.00 4804.00 5004.00

Minimum Wages Act, 1948 as on 31st March’2014 in West Bengal
Area Covered Highly
Skilled
7 Brick Manufacturing : with firewood & accommodation Kolkata and 24
5088.00 5188.00 5388.00
Pgs
Howrah &
4703.00 4803.00 5003.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 5226.00 5326.00 5526.00
Darjeeling except
Siliguri Sub- 4056.00 4156.00 4356.00
Divn.
Jalpaiguri,
Siliguri Sub-
3927.00 4027.00 4227.00
Divn. &
Coochbehar
Bankura,
Midnapore & 4727.00 4827.00 5027.00
Purulia
Birbhum 4713.00 4813.00 5013.00
Nadia &
4826.00 4926.00 5126.00
Mushidabad
Malda &
4604.00 4704.00 4904.00
Dinajpur
8 Ceramics Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
9 Chakki Mills Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
10 Chartered/ Cost Accountants, Auditors etc. Firms West Bengal 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
11 Cigarette Manufacturing West Bengal Rates are now Governed by Agreement
12 Cinchona Plantation West Bengal 5347.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
13 Cinema Industries: Distribution Units West Bengal 4307.00 - - -
Cinema Industries: Production West Bengal 4234.75 4375.27 - 4490.33
Cinema Industries: Studio West Bengal 4234.75 4274.23 4313.71 4428.00
Cinema Industries: Exhibition Units Kolkata &
Howrah
3906.25 3922.87 3995.60
Municipal
Corporation Area
Cities having 1
lakh or more 3886.51 3907.29 3959.43 -
population
Other Moffusal
3881.31 3891.70 3943.65
Areas
14 Clinical Nursing Home Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00 8086.00
15 Construction and Maintenance of Roads or Building Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
Operations Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00 8086.00
16 Dal Mill Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
17 Decoration Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
18 Fishery West Bengal 5347.00
19 Flour Mill Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00 8086.00
20 Forestry or Timbering Operation West Bengal 5347.00
(Adult)
21 Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
22 Glass Industry West Bengal 5506.00 5526.00 5576.00 5631.00
23 Security Services Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
24 Godown Zone A 6370.00
Zone B 6075.00
25 Handloom West Bengal 5347.00
26 Hosiery Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
27 Hotel and Restaurants including boarding and eating Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
houses employing not more than 20 persons Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00 8086.00
28 Lac Manufactories West Bengal 5347.00 5882.00 6471.00
29 Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona West Bengal 5347.00
30 Oil Mills Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
31 Paints and Chemical Factories Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00 8478.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00 8086.00
32 Paper Board and Straw Board Manufacturing Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
33 Plastic Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
34 Plywood Industries Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
35 Power Loom (10 or more persons) Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
36 Power Loom (less than 10 persons) Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
37 Printing Press Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00

Area Covered Highly
Skilled
38 Public Motor Transport West Bengal Cleaner & Fitters & Time Drivers &
Conductor
Lorry Coolies Keepers Mechnaics
6119.00 6172.00 6180.00 6251.00
39 Refractory Industry West Bengal 5304.00 5364.00 5424.00 5484.00
40 Rice Mill West Bengal 5347.00 5882.00 6471.00 7119.00
41 Rope Industry Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
42 Rubber and Rubber Products Manufacturing Kolkata & 5525.00 5536.00 5562.00
24 Pgs
Howrah & 4836.00 4847.00 4873.00
Hooghly
Burdwan 5431.00 5442.00 5468.00
Darleeing except 4152.00 4163.00 4189.00
Siliguri Sub. Divn.
Jalpaiguri, Siliguri 4052.00 4063.00 4089.00
Sub-Divn. &
Coochbehar
Bankura, 4882.00 4893.00 4919.00
Midnapore &
Purulia
Birbhum 4870.00 4881.00 4907.00
Nadia & 4761.00 4772.00 4798.00
Murshidabad
Malda & Dinajpur 4672.00 4683.00 4709.00
43 Salt Manufacturing Industry West Bengal 5347.00 5882.00 6471.00 7119.00
44 Saw Mill Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
45 Sericulture, Nursery & Cultivation (per day) West Bengal 206.00
Silk Spinning and/or Weaving (per month) West Bengal 5347.00

Skilled
46 Shoe Making Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
47 Silk Mills Zone A 6370.00
Zone B 6075.00
48 Silk Printing Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
49 Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
50 Sweeping & Cleaning Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
51 Tailoring Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
52 Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing Zone A 6370.00 7007.00 7708.00
Zone B 6075.00 6682.00 7350.00
53 Tobacco Godown West Bengal 5347.00
54 Tobacco (Beedi Making): Per 1000 Beddi Roller Kolkata & 24 5534.36 213.96
Pgs(S)
Howrah & 4809.22 185.92
Hooghly
Other Districts 4688.32 181.27
Note: Zone A: Areas notified under (i) Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), (ii) Asansol Municipal Corporation, (iii) Durgapur Municipal Corporation,
(iv) Siliguri Municipal Corporation, (v) Digha-Shankarpur Development Authority, (vi) Thermal Power Plants Areas including Township Areas, (vii) All the Municipal
Areas of different districts, (viii) All the sub-divisions in districts Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan and 24 Pgs(N) [excluding Barasat and Bashirhat], (ix) Alipur & Baruipur
Sub-Divn of 24 Pgs(S), (x) Midnapur Sadar and Kharagpur Sub-Divn. of Midnapur(W), (xi) Siliguri Sub-Divn. of Darjeeling District, (xii) Bankura and Bishnupur Sub-
Divn of Bankura District and (xiii) Raghunathpur Sub-Divn. of Purulia District and Zone B: Rest of West Bengal.

Table 11.7: Starting Monthly Wages and Earnings of Workmen in Major Industries of West Bengal
unskilled worker of Jute unskilled worker of Cotton unskilled worker of Engineering Unit Engineering Unit employing
Industry Industry Engineering Unit employing
1001 and above workmen
250-1000 workmen
Period Period Period Period Period

Total Wages & Earnings

excluding House Rent

Allowance (in Rs.)
Allowance (in Rs.)
Allowance (in Rs.)
Allowance (in Rs.)
Allowance (in Rs.)

Nov’10-Jan’11 7867.95 Nov’10-Jan’11 6210.25 Dec’10-Feb’11 8175.30 Dec’10-Feb’11 8226.80 Dec’10-Feb’11 8230.80
Feb’11-April’11 7879.89 Feb’11-April’11 6306.25 Mar’11-May’11 8303.30 Mar’11-May’11 8354.80 Mar’11-May’11 8358.80
May’11-July’11 8019.95 May’11-July’11 6330.25 June’11-Aug’11 8335.30 June’11-Aug’11 8386.80 June’11-Aug’11 8390.80
Aug’11-Oct’11 8147.25 Aug’11-Oct’11 6430.75 Sept’11-Nov’11 8469.30 Sept’11-Nov’11 8520.80 Sept’11-Nov’11 8524.80
Nov’11- Jan’12 8557.65 Nov’11- Jan’12 6754.75 Dec’11-Feb’12 8901.30 Dec’11-Feb’12 8952.80 Dec’11-Feb’12 8956.80

Table 11.8: Number of Officers under the Chief Inspector of Factories, Government of West Bengal
Designation No. of Sanctioned Post

Head Quarter Kolkata & Part of 24 Howrah Regional Offices
Parganas
Joint Chief Inspector of Factories 3 - - -
Joint Chief Inspector of Factories (Chemical) 1 - - -
Joint Chief Inspector of Factories (Medical) 1 - - -
Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories 2 5 1 2
Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories (Chemical) 2 - - -
Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories (Medical) 2 - - -
Inspector of Factories 1 13 5 8
Inspector of Factories (Chemical) 8 - - -
Inspector of Factories (Medical) 6 - - -
Jr. Inspector of Factories - 6 2 2
Industrial Chemist 2 - - -
Statistician 2 - - -
Administrative Officer 1 - - -

Table 12.1: Industrial disputes (Year wise) in West Bengal
Year No. of disputes No. of disputes Total number of No. of disputes % of disposals of the
brought forward raised during the disputes handles handled during the total disputes
from previous year during the year year handled
year
2010 2040 713 2753 725 26.33
2011 2028 715 2743 620 22.60
2012 (Jan to Mar) 2123 222 2345 168 7.16
2012-13 2177 717 2894 662 22.87
2013-14 2232 648 2880 580 20.14
Table 12.2: Industrial disputes by method of disposal in West Bengal
Year Total No. of Disputes settled Disputes for which Bipartite settlement Otherwise disposed
number disputes through conciliation reports u/s 12(4) of off**
of disposed (including cases the I.D. Act were
disputes during where parties did not submitted to the
handles the year pursue) Government
during Number % to total Number* % to total Number % to total Number % to total
the year disposal disposal disposal disposal
2010 2753 725 225 31.03 53(52) 5.60 33 4.55 414 57.10
2011 2743 620 171 27.58 35(35) 7.31 46 7.42 368 59.35
2012 (Jan 2345 168 32 19.05 20(14) 11.90 17 10.12 99 58.93
to Mar)
2012-13 2894 662 124 18.73 61(59) 9.21 36 5.44 441 66.62
2013-14 2880 580 76 13.10 36(36) 6.21 64 11.03 404 69.66
*Figures in bracket indicate the number of cases recommended to the Government for adjudication Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13 and 2013-14
**Includes cases where adjudication u/s 10(1B) of the Industrial Dispute Act has been preferred by the workmen, cases
where disputes settled through mediation by parties other than Government/ Conciliation Officer and cases where disputes
have been withdrawn before commencement proceedings.

Table 12.3: Settlement/ Non-Settlement of Industrial disputes in West Bengal
Sl. Causes Year: 2012-13 Year: 2012-13

No. Disputes settled Disputes for Disputes settled Disputes for
through conciliation which reports u/s through which reports
(including cases 12(4) of the I.D. conciliation u/s 12(4) of the
where parties did not Act were (including cases I.D. Act were
pursue) submitted to the where parties did submitted to the
Government not pursue) Government
No. % to total No. % to total No. % to total No. % to total
disposal disposal disposal disposal
1. Wages & Allowances 16 12.90 1 1.64 06 7.89 2 5.56
2. Bonus 6 4.84 2 3.28 01 1.32 1 2.78
3. Personnel (dismissal, discharge, 10 8.06 35 57.38 08 10.53 17 47.22
suspension, transfer, etc.)
4. Retrenchment 1 0.81 12 19.67 - - - -
5. Lay-off 1 0.81 1 1.64 - - - -
6. Leave & Hours of work 1 0.81 - - - -
7. Non-Implementation of awards & 01 1.32 - -
agreements
8. Employment, manning etc. 1 0.81 2 2.63 - -
9. Promotion, upgrading etc. - - - -
10. Indiscipline, rowdyism, violence etc. (as 1 0.81 1 1.32 - -
alleged by employer)
11. Go-Slow (as alleged by employer) - - - -
12. Others 10 8.05 10 16.39 17 22.37 16 44.44
13. Disputes disposed of where parties did 77 62.10 40 52.62 - -
not pursue (Cause not classified)
14 Total 124 100 61 100 76 100 36 100

Table 12.4: Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers of West Bengal (Base: 2001=100)
Name of Jan’12 Feb’12 Mar’12 April’12 May’12 June’12 July’12 Aug’12 Sept’12 Oct’12 Nov’12 Dec’12
the Centre
Kolkata 184 186 190 196 197 200 202 202 205 207 210 209
Howrah 185 185 190 194 197 202 201 203 206 207 207 205
Asansol 217 219 220 226 226 230 231 238 239 241 242 243
Durgapur 197 197 200 203 207 207 225 224 226 228 230 230
Haldia 198 200 201 206 208 211 216 217 217 219 219 219
Jalpaiguri 180 181 183 186 189 190 192 193 200 204 205 201
Darjeeling 188 188 187 192 192 193 195 200 200 203 204 204
Siliguri 186 189 189 191 195 195 200 201 201 207 208 207
Raniganj 182 183 186 190 193 195 199 199 201 203 204 203
All India 198 199 201 205 206 208 212 214 215 217 218 219
Average
Table 12.4(contd.): Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers of West Bengal (Base: 2001=100)
Name of Jan’13 Feb’13 Mar’13 April’13 May’13 June’13 July’13 Aug’13 Sept’13 Oct’13 Nov’13 Dec’13
the Centre
Kolkata 208 209 210 214 218 220 222 228 230 236 238 233
Howrah 205 207 206 212 213 214 214 218 219 224 225 221
Asansol 243 246 244 247 248 255 259 265 265 269 271 264
Durgapur 248 247 252 255 256 257 267 268 273 277 281 274
Haldia 223 223 224 226 228 230 231 233 236 236 239 236
Jalpaiguri 205 205 206 212 212 219 223 230 230 236 238 232
Darjeeling 204 205 204 211 211 212 214 216 222 227 229 227
Siliguri 207 209 207 208 208 215 217 224 225 231 237 230
Raniganj 203 203 204 207 211 212 216 217 220 224 231 224
All India 221 223 224 226 228 231 235 237 238 241 243 239
Average

Table 12.4(contd.): Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Worker of West Bengal (Base: 2001=100)
Name of the Centre Jan’14 Feb’14 Mar’14
Kolkata 231 229 232
Howrah 219 217 220
Asansol 266 266 267
Durgapur 276 273 278
Haldia 233 232 234
Jalpaiguri 230 233 234
Darjeeling 224 225 224
Siliguri 227 227 227
Raniganj 221 218 219
All India Average 237 238 239
Table 12.5: Consumer Price Index Number for Different Classes of West Bengal
Name of the Year April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Centre
For Agricultural Labour (Base: 1960-61=100)
West Bengal 2010-11 3008 2991 3037 3232 3111 3197 3249 3220 3249 3260 3209 3203
2011-12 3237 3266 3260 3335 3404 3409 3438 3409 3364 3295 3323 3335
2012-13 3415 3438 3507 3581 3644 3673 3707 3730 3736 3782 3770 3770
2013-14 3799 3908 3954 4028 4097 4137 4194 4298 4189 4154 4126 4171
For Agricultural Labour (Base: 1986-87=100)
West Bengal 2010-11 525 522 530 545 543 558 567 562 567 569 560 559
2011-12 565 570 569 582 594 595 600 595 587 575 580 582
2012-13 596 600 612 625 636 641 647 651 652 660 658 658
2013-14 663 682 690 703 715 722 732 750 731 725 720 728
For Rural Labour (Base: 1986-87=100)
West Bengal 2010-11 526 525 532 546 545 561 570 565 570 573 563 563
2011-12 568 573 573 586 598 599 604 600 591 580 586 588
2012-13 602 608 619 632 642 647 654 658 659 666 665 664
2013-14 669 689 697 710 722 731 741 759 740 734 730 738

Table 12.6: Consumer Price Index Number for Working Class of West Bengal during 2010-11 to 2013-14 (Base:
1951=100)
Name of the Year April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Centre
Bankura 2010-11 4055 4098 4077 4117 4222 4281 4132 4153 4323 4390 4384 4386
2011-12 4326 4359 4373 4350 4390 4363 4361 4386 4395 4481 4424 4478
Midnapore 2011-12 4326 4359 4373 4350 4390 4363 4361 4386 4395 4481 4424 4478
2012-13 4411 4437 4464 4551 4574 4617 4683 4747 4727 4706 4729 4750
2013-14 4786 4815 4835 4867 4926 4956 5043 5089 4998
Birbhum 2010-11 4030 4092 4121 4180 4207 4228 4244 4254 4255 4345 4240 4242
2011-12 4242 4253 4265 4289 4303 4297 4317 4324 4326 4451 4377 4426
2012-13 4438 4450 4455 4624 4630 4643 4680 4683 4684 4681 4718 4729
2013-14 4773 4805 4824 4851 4921 4959 5057 5091 4999
Nadia 2010-11 3599 3619 3539 3615 3668 3804 3865 3885 3965 3933 3896 3884
2011-12 3887 3895 3901 3936 4003 4078 4075 4052 4016 4289 4292 4385
Murshidabad 2011-12 3887 3895 3901 3936 4003 4078 4075 4052 4016 4289 4292 4345
2012-13 4476 4487 4447 4522 4540 4549 4560 4570 4548 4547 4572 4597
2013-14 4659 4665 4701 4706 4774 4800 4887 4905 4853
Malda 2010-11 3500 3508 3508 3598 3607 3662 3688 3721 3730 3890 3826 3821
2011-12 3938 3963 3848 3874 3873 3894 3865 3846 3818 3968 4109 4184
West Dinajpur 2011-12 3938 3963 3848 3874 3873 3894 3865 3846 3818 3968 4109 4184
2012-13 4217 4230 4217 4268 4295 4345 4428 4428 4453 4442 4457 4486
2013-14 4512 4531 4554 4581 4653 4690 4777 4817 4739

Table 12.7: Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker of West Bengal (Base: 1960=100)
Year Kolkata Centre (Annual Average) All India (Annual Average)

2008-09 3512 3306
2009-10 3903 3714
2010-11 4259 4103
2011-12 4530 4447
2012-13 4965 4911
2013-14 5523 5387
Table 12.8: Financial Assistance to the Workers of West Bengal in Locked Out Industrial (FAWLOI) Unit
Year No. of Units No. of workmen benefited Amount Paid (Rs. in Crore)
2007-08 240 41,493 40.39
2008-09 239 38,664 37.14
2009-10 232 36,118 47.45
2010-11 235 35,496 60.39
2011-12 222 30,113 70.64
2012-13 208 19,393 34.25
2013-14 198 16,730 34.95

Table 12.9: District wise cumulative report under State Assisted Scheme of Provident Fund for Unorganized
Workers (SASPFUW) of West Bengal upto 31.03.13
Sl. District No. of Amount Amount deposited to the Final Payment

No. enrolments collected as Treasuries
subscription Govt. Interest (Rs.) No. of cases Amount
(Rs.) Matching disbursed
Grant (Rs.) (Rs.)
1 Jalpaiguri 119238 57397766 51467340 8284036 4073 8513493
2 Coochbehar 93734 38667585 36119660 3964244 1001 2030440
3 Darjeeling 55280 33647210 24467586 5166224 2065 3071395
4 Uttar Dinajpur 71532 24119420 22657099 2379863 1492 3215925
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 82318 41601551 39109830 4131416 819 2020678
6 Malda 209139 133835572 118735100 11519972 3061 7984630
7 Murshidabad 226716 119825060 109122800 15999530 3967 10325361
8 Nadia 247520 163964120 153318460 26942965 6579 18840842
9 North 24 Pgs 427588 272874240 265541280 48763336 8583 17435326
10 Kolkata 104247 43195100 40693180 4719813 2919 7233734
11 South 24 Pgs 385754 229870380 232510000 29954570 10433 23458794
12 Howrah 294920 169563700 152042900 25706588 6020 15801797
13 Hooghly 235578 138944818 132565260 14157216 3103 8245537
14 Barddhaman 273831 171324942 154518170 22744616 6231 14540909
15 Birbhum 105034 61801155 55099175 8678168 1517 4232075
16 Bankura 110295 76271179 70588280 13618427 3777 11021445
17 Purulia 84345 32135680 28057440 3336604 835 593617
18 Paschim Medinipore 168679 102195620 96258460 12952287 672 1230221
19 Purba Medinipore 401042 264135617 232682080 33465697 4377 9578607
West Bengal 3696790 2175370715 2015554100 296485572 71524 169374826

Table 12.10: Year wise progress under State Assisted Scheme of Provident Fund for Unorganized Workers
(SASPFUW) of West Bengal
Sl. No. Financial Year No. of subscribers Amount collected Matching No. of Case Amount
enrolled as subscription contribution of Final Disbursed
(Rs.) deposited (Rs.) Payment (Rs.)
1 2001-02 107036 2202340 2202340 .. ..
2 2002-03 324201 49358920 24791400 .. ..
3 2003-04 104424 75264460 60636460 .. ..
4 2004-05 72340 88958640 109499660 .. ..
5 2005-06 75480 90103900 123819560 .. ..
6 2006-07 159774 111364960 108591840 .. ..
7 2007-08 230378 149510800 141883220 6226 12713729
8 2008-09 306195 167961200 153781870 9196 12264458
9 2009-10 346827 236373360 134426000 8511 18893859
10 2010-11 641914 286548660 284524090 13111 32917635
11 2011-12 585284 437054980 399910000 20361 51905008
12 2012-13 742937 480668495 473690000 14119 40680137
13 2013-14 753149 823514336 860000000 31747 98490735
Total 4449939 2998885051 2877756440 103271 267865561

Table 12.11: Number of “Samajik Mukti Card”,a photo identity smart card for unorganised workers of West
Bengal, received from WEBEL upto 31.03.14
Sl. No. District Year: 2012-13 Year: 2013-14 Total (as on 31.03.14)
1 Jalpaiguri 1274 24481 25755
2 Coochbehar 662 19418 20080
3 Darjeeling 2537 20844 23381
6 Malda 3435 39568 43003
7 Murshidabad 1606 58791 60397
8 Nadia 10859 67518 78377
9 North 24 Pgs 4521 55907 60428
10 Kolkata 151 29563 29714
11 South 24 Pgs 3311 70288 73599
12 Howrah 13404 45163 58567
13 Hooghly 4309 73169 77478
14 Barddhaman 17054 54776 71830
15 Birbhum 2887 23661 26548
16 Bankura 2870 30276 33146
17 Purulia 1296 11972 13268
Total 74695 750596 825291

Table 12.12: District wise cumulative report under West Bengal Unorganized Sector Workers’ Health Security
Scheme (WBUSWHSS) upto 31.03.14
Sl. District No. of beneficiaries benefitted Amount disbursed as health benefit (in Rs.)
No.
Medical Death benefit Total Medical Death benefit Total
benefit benefit
1 Jalpaiguri 7 45 5 57 44691 2250000 750000 3044691
2 Coochbehar 16 35 3 54 109065 1750000 450000 2309065
3 Darjeeling 22 44 5 71 135268 2200000 750000 3085268
4 Uttar Dinajpur 18 26 1 45 141604 1300000 150000 1591604
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 15 28 4 47 59015 1400000 600000 2059015
6 Malda 10 114 0 124 54260 5700000 0 5754260
7 Murshidabad 13 21 1 35 65133 1050000 150000 1265133
8 Nadia 30 64 9 103 174534 3200000 1350000 4724534
9 North 24 Pgs 12 48 8 68 91475 2400000 1200000 3691475
10 Kolkata 27 22 0 49 201866 1100000 0 1301866
11 South 24 Pgs 50 149 13 212 287806 7450000 1950000 9687806
12 Howrah 78 138 12 228 453358 6900000 1800000 9153358
13 Hooghly 24 39 5 68 139326 1950000 750000 2839326
14 Barddhaman 24 120 8 152 90308 6000000 1200000 7290308
15 Birbhum 13 39 4 56 51699 1950000 600000 2601699
16 Bankura 15 31 3 49 53762 1550000 450000 2053762
17 Purulia 12 40 2 54 59450 2000000 300000 2359450
18 Paschim Medinipore 74 117 17 208 429840 5850000 2550000 8829840
19 Purba Medinipore 7 52 9 68 65580 2600000 1350000 4015580
Total 467 1172 109 1748 2708040 58600000 16350000 77658040

Table 12.13: District wise list of special schools under National Child Labour Project (NCLP) in West Bengal
during 2013-14 (P)
Sl. District No. of special school sanctioned No. of special school functioning No. of children enrolled
No.
6 Malda 40 40 2000
8 Nadia 100 100 4976
9 North 24 Pgs 40 40 1902
10 South 24 Pgs 40 40 1957
11 Kolkata 40 38 1900
12 Howrah 40 33 1535
13 Hooghly 68 68 3400
15 Bankura 62 58 1340
16 Birbhum 55 47 2350
17 Purulia 90 89 4450
Total 985 947 44824

Table 12.14: District wise cumulative report under Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare
(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act (BOCWA) in West Bengal upto 31.03.14
Sl. District Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Establishment Establishment Amount of Benefit disbursed

No. registered registration Registered Registration cess Received
fees & Fees (Rs.) (in Rs.) No. of Amount
subscription persons (in Rs.)
(in Rs.)
1 Jalpaiguri 64848 5629370 1428 11463000 160224585 63536 117882612
2 Coochbehar 33360 5227850 3153 1585000 101401461 9739 20866938
3 Darjeeling 36168 1690500 2626 573000 580308639 18201 48441188
4 Uttar Dinajpur 69845 8762330 800 400000 144166765 12462 51603182
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 28873 3942592 525 277800 75554442 19176 48866382
6 Malda 115031 24293190 1475 778000 150568185 123231 354432978
7 Murshidabad 127156 26574210 334 224000 152544395 30006 88094030
8 Nadia 143602 21463010 566 307500 369053782 58549 157349539
9 North 24 Pgs 91322 20332504 2201 1277150 659735594 20912 52454318
10 Kolkata 30873 2844450 1084 1063500 1966421397 651 2319000
11 South 24 Pgs 185731 19184240 804 521000 188132519 58816 172237804
12 Howrah 63528 17608105 1043 507500 135064398 16107 45444495
13 Hooghly 45849 7071608 1302 710500 157876625 16387 38882744
14 Barddhaman 75927 12515768 447 534000 572789079 16316 45986418
15 Birbhum 90021 9520710 388 211500 142920893 15471 37832044
16 Bankura 24377 3711390 259 141500 117252512 8882 19672000
17 Purulia 27462 3675475 178 149400 154885732 10362 30647310
18 Paschim Medinipore 78123 7483400 159 84500 191394749 49550 136765757
19 Purba Medinipore 164143 42986996 597 382450 267633003 25524 69791763
Total 1496239 244517698 19369 21191300 6287928755 573878 1539570502

Table 12.15: Year wise progress report on BOCWA in West Bengal
Year Beneficiary Registration fees & Establishment Establishment Cess collected No. of benefit Amount
enrolled subscription Registered Registration (in Rs.) disbursed disbursed
collected (in Rs.) Fees (in Rs.) (in Rs.)
2005-07 23445 1492 22525815 01 640
2007-08 23197 8911820 3433 230557173 53 201341
2008-09 25384 2895 526703734 151 469988
2009-10 44757 5353040 2447 7565050 717738157 532 2212836
2010-11 155087 18197620 1405 963798935 6847 12785789
2011-12 258076 45507480 2532 1047782884 32346 87193644
2012-13 394177 100518316 2227 5032700 1170749585 150362 382601449
2013-14 572116 66029422 2938 11593550 1608072472 3883586 1054104815

Table 12.16: Districtwise cumulative report on Electrification of Houses under West Bengal Beedi Workers’
Welfare Scheme upto 31.03.14
Sl. No. Name of the District No. of beneficiaries for Amount of funds No. of houses
whom fund has been released (in Rs.) connection provided
released
1 Bankura 761 1901730 677
2 Birbhum 985 2461644 502
3 Burdwan 3760 9397640 2306
4 Coochbehar 1231 3077500 986
5 Daksin Dinajpur 1370 3425000 921
7 Hooghly 219 538790 5
8 Howrah 332 827606 166
10 Malda 8601 21502500 7640
11 Murshidabad 22261 55651190 14076
12 Nadia 1862 4651130 697
13 North 24 Pgs 5055 12624992 4641
16 Purulia 604 1510000 403
17 South 24 Pgs 1154 2885000 608
18 Uttar Dinajpur 915 2285150 251
Total 52229 130479918 35199

Table 12.17: Year-wise progress report on Electrification of Houses under West Bengal Beedi Workers’ Welfare
Scheme
Year No. of beneficiaries Fund released (Rs.)

2007-08 5999 14984170
2008-09 10645 26588052
2009-10 20514 51238616
2010-11 10522 26295398
2011-12 2802 7003980
2012-13 1100 2750000
2013-14 647 1617500

Table 12.18: District-wise cumulative report on Housing Subsidy under West Bengal Beedi Workers’ Welfare
Scheme upto 31.03.14
Sl. No. Name of the District No. of No. of Amount of No. of Amount of
applications beneficiaries for funds released beneficiaries for funds released
approved by whom state (@ Rs. 5000/- whom state (@ Rs. 5000/-
Ministry of fund (1st per beneficiary) fund (2nd per beneficiary)
Labour & installment) has (Rs. In lakh) installment) has (Rs. In lakh)
Employment, been released been released
GOI
1 Bankura 1127 1127 56.35 670 33.5
2 Birbhum 283 283 14.15 0 0
3 Burdwan 51 51 2.55 44 2.2
4 Coochbehar 330 330 16.5 222 11.1
5 Daksin Dinajpur 578 578 28.9 2 0.1
6 Hooghly 44 44 2.2 0 0
7 Howrah 222 222 11.1 31 1.55
8 Malda 5873 5873 293.65 1670 83.5
9 Murshidabad 8229 8229 411.45 6812 340.6
10 Nadia 1000 1000 50 188 9.4
11 North 24 Pgs 1898 1898 94.9 170 8.5
12 Paschim Medinipore 1186 1186 59.3 335 16.75
13 Purba Medinipore 7988 7988 399.4 3928 196.4
14 Purulia 1323 1323 66.15 1852 92.6
15 South 24 Pgs 2921 2921 146.05 528 26.4
16 Uttar Dinajpur 2106 2106 105.3 702 35.1
Total 35159 35159 1757.95 17154 857.7

Table 12.19: Report on Identity Cards issued to Beedi workers of West Bengal upto 31.12.12
Sl. District Estimated number of Beedi workers No. of Beedi workers to whom No. of Beedi No. of Beedi
No. identity cards have been issued by workers to workers to
the State Government whom identity whom identity
Male Female Total Male Female Total cards have cards have been
been issued by issued by the
the Labour Labour Welfare
Welfare Organisation and
Organisation the State
Government
1 Darjeeling 463 900 1363 250 690 940 0 940
2 Jalpaiguri 2625 8250 10875 1746 5193 6939 936 7875
3 Coochbehar 14438 50549 64987 10622 28977 39599 12376 51975
4 Uttar Dinajpur 50432 60000 110432 26761 32747 59508 3444 62952
5 Dakshin Dinajpur 6323 22598 28921 4474 11128 15602 3014 18616
6 Malda 49950 240050 290000 33547 210854 244401 43273 287674
7 Murshidabad 60000 700000 760000 28888 299150 328038 104406 432444
8 Barddhaman 15825 33250 49075 7996 17645 25641 296 25937
9 Birbhum 11050 25034 36084 2471 9273 11744 0 11744
10 Bankura 10875 9000 19875 6810 4213 11023 10768 21791
11 Purulia 49070 60030 109100 20281 23917 44198 46326 90524
12 Nadia 8042 70640 78682 3388 42708 46096 32102 78198
13 North 24 Pgs 30000 80745 110745 26668 54273 80941 10348 91289
14 South 24 Pgs 30250 50640 80890 18164 25203 43367 21724 65091
15 Howrah 9625 15250 24875 2837 8521 11358 3090 14448
16 Hooghly 4000 30375 34375 2186 16426 18612 6006 24618
17 Paschim Medinipore 16875 30313 47188 3344 5990 9334 30410 39744
18 Purba Medinipore 35430 75670 111100 25650 56606 82256 28723 110979
19 Kolkata 3150 7350 10500 0 0 0 7148 7148
Total 408423 1570644 1979067 226083 853514 1079597 364390 1443987

Table 12.20: Report regarding benefit disbursement under West Bengal Transport Workers’ Social Security Scheme
2010 upto 31.03.14
Sl. Benefit /Assistance given to Progress Upto 31.03.13 Progress during 2013-14 Total
No. the beneficiaries No. of Total amount No. of Total No. of workers Total amount
workers disbursed (Rs.) workers amount benefitted disbursed (Rs.)
benefitted benefitted disbursed
(Rs.)
1. Assistance on death- Natural 160 6005000 177 8690000 337 14695000
2. Assistance on death- 33 4050000 39 5750000 72
Accidental 9800000
3. Medical benefit for major 177 2603968 157 3737715 334
ailments 6341683
4. Maternity benefit 548 2772000 1292 6575000 1840 9347000
5. Assistance for purchase of 1105 553005 2034 1019960 3139
spectacles 1572965
6. Funeral Assistance 119 357000 174 522000 293 879000
7. Assistance for education of 3211 15277000 5025 27414000 8236
Children 42691000
8. Assistance for marriage 323 2860000 798 7850000 1121 10710000
TOTAL 5676 34477973 9696 61558675 15372 96036648

Table 12.21: Districtwise progress report under West Bengal Transport Workers’ Social Security Scheme, 2010
(upto 31.03.2014)
Sl. Name of the district No. of registration

No. upto 31.03.13 during 2013-14 upto 31.03.14
1 Coochbehar 3651 2389 6040
2 Darjeeling 5313 3018 8331
3 Jalpaiguri 2508 1888 4396
6 Malda 4077 3153 7230
7 Murshidabad 4494 3427 7921
8 Nadia 11074 10191 21265
9 Birbhum 7792 4512 12304
10 Barddhaman 11347 5944 17291
11 Bankura 2787 2126 4913
12 Purulia 2246 2724 4970
15 Hooghly 3454 2653 6107
16 Howrah 6067 2578 8645
17 North 24 Pgs 12520 5339 17859
18 South 24 Pgs 5235 5157 10392
19 Kolkata 15300 6214 21514
Total 115152 74092 189244

Table 12.22: Administration of the West Bengal Shops & Establishment Act, 1963
Sl. Item Jan’12 – Mar’12 2012-13 2013-14

No.
1 Number of Inspections conducted during the period 11212 41320 36765
2 Number of infringements detected during the period 6886 26570 22897
3 Number of infringements brought forward from previous year 7277 8731 14720
4 Number of infringements let off after compliance 5432 20581 19940
5 Number of infringements under process at the end of the period 8731 14720 12917
6 Number of prosecution cases launched during the period 1515 6034 4760
7 Number of court cases disposed of through conviction 286 1275 910
8 Number of court cases disposed of through acquittal -- -- --
9 Amount of fine imposed by the courts (in Rs.) 152400 623400 508708
Table 12.23: Registration details during the year 2012 & 2013 under West Bengal Shops & Establishment Act, 1963
Sl. Status Registration Incorporating Changes Renewal of Registration Winding up of Business Duplicate Certificate
No.
2012-13
2013-14
2012-13
2013-14
2012-13
2013-14
2012-13
2013-14
2012-13
2013-14
Mar’12
Mar’12
Mar’12
Mar’12
Mar’12
Jan’12-
Jan’12-
Jan’12-
Jan’12-
Jan’12-
1 Pending at the beginning of the 1060 60 26 2463 1256 297 645 445 910 27 07 11 175 86 108
period
2 Received during the period 3150 14056 13650 7816 31106 29203 10109 44416 38965 55 275 217 345 1812 1680
3 Issued during the period 4150 14090 13628 9023 32065 29213 10309 43951 39565 75 271 221 434 1790 1755
4 Pending at the end of the period 60 26 48 1256 297 287 445 910 310 07 11 7 86 108 33
5 Revenue (in Rs.) collected during 133850 549500 411750 260650 1258250 686045 339620 1370480 1198125 10350 110260 48700 744470 3288490 2344620
the period

Table 12.24: No. of registered factories in West Bengal
Year Factories u/s 2m(i) Factories u/s 2m(ii) Factories u/s 85 Total
(employing 10 or more (employing 20 or more (employing less than 10
worker with power) worker without power) worker )
2010 13775 154 1344 15273
2011 14084 155 1353 15592
2012-13 14612 156 1383 16151
2013-14 15186 156 1402 16744
Table 12.25: Distribution of factories registered according the number of workers during 2013-14 in West Bengal
Category of factories Section 2m(i) & 2m(ii) Section 85

according to number of Number of factories Number of workers Number of factories Number of workers
workers
Up to 9 - - 20 135
10-19 65 975 - -
20-49 281 10635 -- --
50-99 145 8990 -- --
100-499 93 15345 -- --
500+ 3 2473 -- --
Total 587 38418 20 135

Table 12.26: Number of visits to factories by Inspectors of Government of West Bengal
Year Registered factories Unregistered factories Non-Amenable factories Total

Section 2m(i) &(ii) Section 85 Section 2m(i) &(ii) Section 85
2010 2103 48 469 36 102 2758
2011 2254 76 538 58 115 3418
2012-13 2478 107 1033 203 307 4128
2013-14 2748 36 941 54 258 4040
Table 12.27: Average daily number of workers* employed in major industrial groups in West Bengal as per
statutory returns furnished by the employers
Industry Groups NIC(1998) Year: 2009 Year: 2010 Year: 2011 Year: 2012(P)
workers Factories workers workers workers Factories workers Factories
Rice 15312 19552 798 20237 822 20733 837 21093 852
Tea 15491 29371 362 29441 364 30251 373 30401 376
Cotton Textile 17111,15,18,21 46817 394 47448 400 49332 411 49431 416
Jute & Allied Industries 17119 214464 108 214714 108 214834 111 215204 112
Leather & Leather Products 19111-19 17085 525 17122 529 17144 530 17502 535
Paper & Paper Products Div. 21 13390 282 14518 293 14980 304 15270 311
Printing & Allied Industries Div. 22 16863 452 17385 459 18272 469 19836 503
Rubber & Rubber Products 25111-99 13809 373 13889 376 13932 380 15057 414
Chemical & Chemical Div. 24 40732 867 40732 885 41092 895 42430 911
Products
Glass & Glass Products 26101-09 9217 95 9352 99 9364 100 2116 112
Engineering 27 to 36, 50, 52601 – 09 350781 5892 358601 6005 365996 6103 368224 6161
Ship Building & Repairs 35111-17 7341 40 7411 42 8083 47 8133 48
Electricity 40101-09 19560$ 91# 19560$ 91# 19660$ 92# 21433$ 95#
* Worker means an employed person defined under section 2(l) of Factories Act 1948 Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13 and 2013-14
# Figures includes substations also
$ Workers engaged only in power generation

Table 12.28: District-wise average daily number of workers employed in major industrial groups in West Bengal
as per statutory returns furnished by the employers
District Year: 2009 Year: 2010 Year: 2011 Year: 2012

workers Factories workers Factories workers Factories workers Factories
Bankura 11126 226 11846 235 12356 243 12905 255
Birbhum 6777 169 6897 172 7217 175 7477 181
Barddhaman 103724 1076 107620 1119 111729 1162 115576 1201
Kolkata 19268 985 20122 1012 20534 1027 21099 1055
Coochbehar 2624 43 2724 44 2774 45 2824 46
Darjeeling 14965 302 16065 306 16215 309 16665 313
Hooghly 100897 702 102939 732 103547 752 104837 780
Howrah 165366 3047 169416 3121 174616 3179 178109 3257
Jalpaiguri 29354 528 30174 532 30814 534 31191 540
Malda 2559 66 2640 70 2689 73 2759 75
Purba & Paschim Medinipore 42729 373 44514 382 45313 388 45838 393
Murshidabad 5030 67 5101 71 5101 71 5641 79
Nadia 15126 214 15253 219 15372 224 15655 234
Purulia 6475 96 6845 100 6940 103 7270 109
24 Pgs(N) & 24 Pgs(S) 416845 6890 424775 7052 430193 7173 435719 7381
Uttar & Dakshin Dinajpur 6520 104 6620 106 6740 109 6790 110
Defence factories 26575 25 26575 25 26575 25 26575 25
All Industries 975960 14913 1000126 15298 1018725 15592 1036930 16034

Table 12.29: Total Employment in Factories of West Bengal
Employment Year
2010 2011 2012 2012-13 2013-14
(Jan-March) (April-March) (April-March)
Total 1000126 1020705 1022958 1039613 1077874
Table 12.30: Employment of Women in Factories of West Bengal
Year Average daily no. of women workers employed

2009 19086
2010 18870
2011 18910
2012 18950
Table 12.31: Violation of health provision observed in West Bengal
Types of health provisions Period

Jan’12 to March’ 12 2012-13 2013-14
Ventilation & Temperature (Sec. 13) 169
Dust & Fumes (Sec. 14) 10 151 139
Over Crowding (Sec. 16) 66 200 13
Lighting (Sec. 17) 9 2 81
Drinking Water (Sec. 18) 18 106 111
Latrines & Urinals (Sec. 19) 42 146 128

Table 12.32: Jobseekers on the Live-Register of the employment exchanges in West Bengal as on 31.03.2013 &
31.03.14
Education level No. as on 31.03.2013 No. as on 31.03.2014

Illiterate, Literate & below MP or equivalent 1419239 1458651
Madhyamik or equivalent 3798637 4080305
Higher Secondary or equivalent 1128039 1201306
Graduates 584451 631471
Post-graduates 86001 96298
Diploma in Engineering/Technology/IIT etc. 133201 137793
Total 7149568 7605824
Age-group
Upto 19 years 814660 876635
20-29 years 3439992 3684577
30-39 years 2033603 2173347
40-49 years 797727 818622
50-59 years 63586 52643

Table 12.33: District-wise registration on the Live-Register of the employment exchanges in West Bengal
Sl. No. Name of District As on 31.03.13 As on 31.03.14

Men Women Total Men Women Total
1 Kolkata 348883 162609 511492 360021 174500 534521
2 24 Parganas (N) 616746 277344 894090 641803 299661 941464
3 24 Parganas (S) 348604 165461 514065 375583 182292 557875
4 Nadia 286639 136023 422662 295497 141329 436826
5 Murshidabad 272280 123244 395524 288765 137926 426691
6 Howrah 221190 110463 331653 232186 120070 352256
7 Hooghly 348178 165858 514036 365515 178954 544469
8 Burdwan 540955 191902 732857 563127 205975 769102
9 Birbhum 207524 75475 283000 221967 83559 305526
10 Bankura 242012 74270 316283 255530 80972 336502
11 Purba Medinipur 283186 116688 399874 296918 125636 422554
12 Paschim Medinipur 283918 122571 406509 302289 134261 436550
13 Purulia 194450 44045 239495 202482 47364 249846
14 Darjeeling 114940 59949 174889 122501 65548 188049
15 Jalpaiguri 151889 90635 242524 164784 103826 268610
16 Coochbehar 154456 77747 232203 164736 86299 251035
17 Malda 175252 83011 258263 183090 91385 274475
18 Uttar Dinajpur 92139 49185 141324 101901 57624 159525
19 Dakshin Dinajpur 96587 43238 139825 101727 48221 149948
Total 4979829 2169739 7149568 5240422 2365402 7605824

Table 12.34: Sector-wise Vacancies notified & Placements in West Bengal
Sectors 2012-13 2013-14

Vacancies notified Placements Vacancies Placements
notified
Central Government 415 2 76 1
Quasi Central Government 801 6 147 1
State Government 1036 262 254 84
Quasi State Government 969 810 308 116
Local Bodies 948 48 262 18
Public Total 4169 1128 1047 220
Private Act 1201 170 456 13
Private Non-Act 154 15 48 1
Private Total 1355 185 504 14
Grand Total 5524 1313 1551 234

Table 12.35: District-wise Vacancies notified and Placements in West Bengal
Sl. No. Name of District 2013-14

Vacancies Notified Placements
1 Kolkata 305 21
2 North 24 Parganas 201 32
3 South 24 Parganas 150 27
4 Nadia 24 5
5 Murshidabad 219 7
6 Howrah 31 0
7 Hooghly 72 5
8 Burdwan 42 1
9 Birbhum 5 13
10 Bankura 31 3
11 Purba Medinipur 83 4
12 Paschim Medinipur 20 1
13 Purulia 10 3
14 Darjeeling 21 4
15 Jalpaiguri 14 6
16 Coochbehar 11 3
17 Malda 7 2
18 Uttar Dinajpur 38 3
19 Dakshin Dinajpur 42 0
20 Exempted Category Cell 205 94
Total 1551 234

Table 12.36: Post-graduates and Professional Degree holders’ Registration etc. in West Bengal
Particulars Period
2010 2011 Jan’12 to Mar’12 Apr’12 to Mar’13 Apr’13 to Mar’14
Registration 7635 10582 2468 10144 9655
Live-Register 69048 77589 78988 86001 96298
Submission 1115 474 80 499 123
Placement 48 140 01 20 80
Table 12.37: Qualification-wise breakup of Live-Register of Professional & Executive Office in West Bengal
Qualification No. of Registrants upto 31.12.2012 No. of Registrants upto 31.12.2014
Agricultural Graduates 567 571

Animator & Multimedia Artist 09 10
Architect 15 15
B. A. M. S. 94 99
BE/B. Tech/M Tech 10617 11613
BHMS 891 913
BVSc & AH 119 124
CA/ICWA 99 108
Commercial Pilot 02 2
Dentist 55 66
Jute Technologist 27 29
LLB/ LLM 1676 1757
MA 47158 53187
All Management Professional (MBA/BBA/ BHM 2290 2497
etc.)
MBBS 153 154
M. Com 4259 4469
M. Sc. 10226 11062
Nurse (B. Sc.) 55 73
Others 7689 9549
Total 86001 96298

Table 12.38: Activities of Exempted Category Cell in West Bengal

Year Registration Submission Placement Live-Register Vacancy Notified
2010 2080 4329 43 8789 375
2011 2672 3326 38 7821 140
Jan’12 to Mar’12 860 68 09 12228 293
2012-13 2818 4460 165 14941 2073
2013-14 1636 5031 94 16545 205
Table 12.39: Status of special categories on Live-Register in Employment Exchanges of West Bengal during the
year 2012-13
Category Registration Submission Placement Live-Register
Year: 2012-13
SC 48671 7649 112 907625
ST 8942 1431 153 179527
OBC 24162 3487 177 255366
PH 1627 382 70 69992
Women 119987 6358 226 2169739
Ex-Servicemen 912 176 35
Muslim 56358 3224 71 1122490
Christian 1261 77 01 26033
Buddhist 1130 09 01 32948
Sikhs 118 01 0 4116
Year: 2013-14
SC 26703 2272 104 1144637 (P)
ST 4991 421 4 200117
OBC 16233 687 55 344337
PH 842 90 0 70568
Women 218107 2400 47 2365402
Muslim 111815 848 19 1262190
Christian 1241 7 0 28519
Buddhist 1504 0 0 34563
Sikhs 105 0 0 3911

Table 12.40: Information regarding Employment (estimated) in Organized Sector of West Bengal under
Employment Market Information (EMI) Programme for the quarter ended on 30/06/2012 and 30/03/13.
For the quarter ended on 30/06/2012

Sector No. of establishment Total estimated employment in Total estimated employment in
previous quarter ending as on quarter ending as on 30.06.2012
30.03.2012
Addressed Responded Total Women Total Women

Public 10687 5949 1158896 110187 1159589 110125
Private 6009 2521 763567 157224 772423 160167
Total 16696 8470 1922463 267411 1932012 270292
For the quarter ended on 30/03/13
Sector No. of establishment Total estimated employment in Total estimated employment in
previous quarter ending as on quarter ending as on 30.03.2013(P)
31.12.2012
Addressed Responded Total Women Total Women

Public 10718 6214 1152377 109821 1152377 109821
Private 6026 2553 760860 154983 760860 154983
Total 16744 8767 1913237 262572 1913237 264804

Table 12.41: Sector-wise estimated employment in West Bengal under EMI Programme
Sector (NIC Economic Activities Year: 2012-13 Year: 2013-14(P)

Code) Numbers in lakh
Public Total Private Total Public Total Private
Total
01-05 Agriculture, Hunting and Fishery 0.25 2.24 0.25 2.02
10-14 Mining & Quarrying 1.07 0.01 1.07 0.00
15-37 Manufacturing 1.56 2.80 1.55 2.81
40-41 Electricity, Gas & Water 0.40 0.09 0.40 0.09
45 Construction 0.53 0.03 0.53 0.03
50-55 Wholesale & Retail Trade, Restaurants and 0.14 0.25 0.14 0.25
Hotels
60-64 Transport, Storage & Communication 2.30 0.10 2.25 0.09
65-74 Financing, Insurance, Real Estate & Business 1.03 0.90 1.02 1.00
Services
75-99 Community, Social & Personnel Services 4.31 1.30 4.29 1.31
Grand Total 11.59 7.72 11.50 7.60
Table 12.42: Number of career talk programme conducted in West Bengal
Year No. of Programme Conducted

2010 64
2011 77
2012 101
2013 -14 79

Table 12.43(a): Information on Employment Bank in West Bengal
Period No. of candidates enrolled No. of employers enlisted

As on 31.03.2013 874597 47
As on 31.03.2014 1307858 284
Table 12.43(b): Information on “Yuvasree” in West Bengal
Period* No. of candidates No. of employers enlisted Under ‘Yubashree’ Under ‘Yubashree’
enrolled no. of job seekers total amount paid as
enrolled in unemployment
Employment Bank assistance (in Rs)
2013-14 87465 Not Applicable 87465 554131500
* The scheme “Yuvasree” was formally inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal on 03.10.13 Source: Labour in West Bengal, 2012-13 and 2013-14
Table 12.44: Performance of Udiyaman Swanirbhar Karmasansthan Prakalpa (USKP)-2008 in West Bengal
Sl. No. Year No. of cases

Sponsored Sanctioned Disbursed
1 2009-10 6291 383 86
2 2010-11 2767 160 48
3 2011-12 8835 2994 2090
4 2012-13 8502 2284 2000
5 2013-14 5148 2072 1808

Table 12.45(a): ESI Hospitals during the year 2012-13 in West Bengal
Sl. No. Name of the Hospital Date of Opening No. of Beds No. of beds in Bed occupancy rate
Sanctioned operation during the year
1 Kamarhati 26.03.1964 350 350 90%

2 Sealdah 17.12.1964 250 254 90%
3 Serampore 01.10.1965 216 216 79%
4 Belur 15.04.1965 200 200 97%
5 Baltikuri 01.02.1967 416 230 76%
6 Uluberia 16.02.1967 216 216 88%
7 Kalyani 20.12.1968 250 250 76%
8 Gouhati 19.11.1972 216 216 95%
9 Budge Budge 01.08.1973 300 300 74%
10 Maniktala 01.03.1979 500 412 94%
11 Asansol 01.02.1981 125 100 80%
12 Bandel 08.02.1982 250 250 74%
13 Durgapur 21.01.2000 150 150 98%
Total 3445 3144

Table 12.45(b): ESI Hospitals during the year 2013-14 in West Bengal
Sl. No. Name of the Hospital Present Bed Bed Occpancy OPD Attendance Casualty Indoor
Strength Rate Attendance Admission
(Running)
1 Kamarhati 348 80.74 135107 54187 14005
2 Sealdah 254 74.91 88513 4563 5039
3 Serampore 216 76.77 45884 12659 6512
4 Belur 200 88.57 13437 430 669
5 Baltikuri 230 75.64 41897 8385 8248
6 Uluberia 216 87.24 81998 15029 7582
7 Kalyani 250 75.52 114078 4896 8610
8 Gouhati 216 102.18 85552 53286 11244
9 Budge Budge 300 76.77 73159 34867 7614
10 Maniktala 412 91.41 145189 25209 10937
11 Asansol 100 76.07 38396 5908 3989
12 Bandel 250 76.86 42604 6978 6752
13 Durgapur 150 91.13 56429 13765 9581
Total 3142 82.70 962243 240162 100782
Table 12.46: Number of ESI Insured persons in West Bengal
Year Number of ESI Insured Persons (In Lacs)

2010-11 10.17
2011-12 10.47
2012-13 11.16
2013-14 11.51

Table 12.47: Progress in service utilization (Hospitalization) under Rastriya Swastha Bima Yojana in West
Bengal
Year No. of hospitalisations Amount of claim raised (in Rs.)

2009-10 10355 43051445
2010-11 78398 331889030
2011-12 134454 712470663
2012-13 206115 1168377863
Table 12.48: Activities of the office of the Commissioner, Workmen’s compensation, Durgapur, Government of
West Bengal
Item Jan’12 to Mar’ 12 Apr’12 to Mar’13

Cases Case Total Case Pending Cases Case Total Case Pending
pending filed disposed pending filed disposed
from during from during
previous this year previous this year
year year
Claim Case 862 13 875 33 842 842 27 869 231 638
D. N. Case 155 9 164 12 152 152 41 193 55 138
A.G. Case 11 6 17 7 10 10 Nil 10 10 Nil
D.C. + F.A. 58 9 67 3 64 64 4 68 Nil 68

Table 12.49: Number of Adjudication of Industrial Dispute (I.D.) Cases in West Bengal
Section Year: 2012

No. of cases
Pending as on Received during Total Disposed during Pending as on
01.01.2012 2012 2012 31.12.12
10 527 79 606 72 534
10(1B)(d) 299 44 343 80 263
33A 21 3 24 00 24
33(2)(b) 27 4 31 5 26
10A 0 0 0 0 0
36A 2 0 2 0 2
33(C)(2) 485 58 543 117 426
11B 22 0 22 0 22
W. J. Act 3 0 3 0 3
17(2)
2A(2) 37 45 82 4 78
Misc. 5 10 15 0 15
Total 1428 243 1671 278 1393

Table 12.49(contd.): Number of Adjudication of Industrial Dispute (I.D.) Cases in West Bengal
Section Year: 2013

No. of Cases
Pending as on Received during Total Disposed during Pending as on
01.01.2013 2013 2013 31.12.13
10 534 73 607 68 539
10(1B)(d) 263 24 287 70 217
33A 24 0 24 0 24
33(2)(b) 26 11 37 18 19
10A 0 0 0 0 0
36A 2 0 2 0 2
33(C)(2) 426 78 504 121 383
11B 22 0 22 0 22
W. J. Act 3 0 3 0 3
17(2)
2A(2) 78 62 140 20 120
Misc. 15 10 25 0 25
Total 1393 258 1651 297 1354

Table 12.50: Industrial Cases dealt with by Industrial Tribunals and Labour Courts of West Bengal
Section Pending on the 1st day of Received during Disposed during Pending as on
2010 2011 2012 2010 2011 2012 2013 2010 2011 2012 2013 31.12.13
10 550 524 539 78 57 79 73 104 54 72 68 539
10(1B)(d) 349 323 217 60 37 44 24 86 61 80 70 217
33A 18 17 24 00 5 3 0 1 1 00 0 24
33(2)(b) 29 27 19 00 00 4 11 2 0 5 18 19
10A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
36A 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
33(C)(2) 537 528 383 40 80 58 78 49 123 117 121 383
11B 22 22 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
W. J. Act 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
17(2)
2A(2) 0 0 120 0 37 45 62 0 0 4 20 120
Misc. 5 5 25 1 0 10 10 1 0 0 0 25
Total 1515 1451 1354 179 216 243 258 243 239 278 297 1354

APPENDIX
National Industrial Classification-2008
BROAD STRUCTURE (Sections and Divisions)
Section A Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Division 01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
Division 02 Forestry and logging
Division 03 Fishing and aquaculture
Section B Mining and quarrying
Division 05 Mining of coal and lignite

Division 06 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
Division 07 Mining of metal ores
Division 08 Other mining and quarrying
Division 09 Mining support service activities
Section C Manufacturing
Division 10 Manufacture of food products

Division 11 Manufacture of beverages
Division 12 Manufacture of tobacco products
Division 13 Manufacture of textiles
Division 14 Manufacture of wearing apparel
Division 15 Manufacture of leather and related products
Division 16 Manufacture of wood and products of wood and cork,
except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting
materials
Division 17 Manufacture of paper and paper products
Division 18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media
Division 19 Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products
Division 20 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
Division 21 Manufacture of pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical
products
Division 22 Manufacture of rubber and plastics products
Division 23 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products
Division 24 Manufacture of basic metals
Division 25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and
equipment
Division 26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
Division 27 Manufacture of electrical equipment
Division 28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.

APPENDIX
Division 29 Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers

Division 30 Manufacture of other transport equipment
Division 31 Manufacture of furniture
Division 32 Other manufacturing
Division 33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment
Section D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Division 35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Section E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation

activities
Division 36 Water collection, treatment and supply

Division 37 Sewerage
Division 38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery
Division 39 Remediation activities and other waste management services
Section F Construction
Division 41 Construction of buildings

Division 42 Civil engineering
Division 43 Specialized construction activities
Section G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and

motorcycles
Division 45 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and
motorcycles
Division 46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Division 47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Section H Transportation and storage
Division 49 Land transport and transport via pipelines

Division 50 Water transport
Division 51 Air transport
Division 52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation
Division 53 Postal and courier activities
Section I Accommodation and Food service activities
Division 55 Accommodation
Division 56 Food and beverage service activities
APPENDIX
Section J Information and communication
Division 58 Publishing activities

Division 59 Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound
recording and music publishing activities
Division 60 Broadcasting and programming activities
Division 61 Telecommunications
Division 62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
Division 63 Information service activities
Section K Financial and insurance activities
Division 64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Division 65 Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except
compulsory social security
Division 66 Other financial activities
Section L Real estate activities
Division 68 Real estate activities
Section M Professional, scientific and technical activities
Division 69 Legal and accounting activities

Division 70 Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
Division 71 Architecture and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis
Division 72 Scientific research and development
Division 73 Advertising and market research
Division 74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities
Division 75 Veterinary activities
Section N Administrative and support service activities
Division 77 Rental and leasing activities

Division 78 Employment activities
Division 79 Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service activities
Division 80 Security and investigation activities
Division 81 Services to buildings and landscape activities
Division 82 Office administrative, office support and other business support
activities
Section O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Division 84 Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

APPENDIX
Section P Education
Division 85 Education
Section Q Human health and social work activities
Division 86 Human health activities

Division 87 Residential care activities
Division 88 Social work activities without accommodation
Section R Arts, entertainment and recreation
Division 90 Creative, arts and entertainment activities

Division 91 Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
Division 92 Gambling and betting activities
Division 93 Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities
Section S Other service activities
Division 94 Activities of membership organizations

Division 95 Repair of computers and personal and household goods
Division 96 Other personal service activities
Section T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods

and services producing activities of households for own use
Division 97 Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel

Division 98 Undifferentiated goods-and services-producing activities of
private households for own use
Section U Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
Division 99 Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies

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LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

A fundamental feature of a well-functioning and competitive labour market is high

In this endeavour the framework has been designed by Dr. Gopaldeb

Place: Kolkata Dipankar Chattopadhyay

4 Concepts & Definitions xxi-xxxiii

5 Chapter-1: Population and Household 1-31

6 Chapter-2: Labour Force 32-36

7 Chapter-3: Employed (Work Force) 37-81

8 Chapter 4: Unemployment and Underemployment 82-95

9 Chapter 5: Unemployment of Youths 96-99

10 Chapter 6: Working Hour 100-102

11 Chapter 7: Earnings and Employment Related Income 103-107

12 Chapter 8: Occupational Injury 108-113

13 Chapter 9: Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining 114-115

14 Chapter 10: Strikes and Lockout 116-120

15 Chapter 11: Labour Inspection 121-150

16 Chapter 12: Miscellaneous 151-189

17 Appendix: National Industrial Classification-2008 190-193

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List of Detailed Tables

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43. 3.9 Number of persons employed according to current weekly 71

44. 3.10 Number of workers by enterprise type in un-incorporated 72

45. 3.11 Number of workers by nature of employment and gender in 72-74

46. 3.12 Activity-wise Number of Workers in 2005 75-76

47. 3.13(a) Numbers of Establishment, Employment and Women 77

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49. 3.13(c) Districtwise number of male main workers and marginal 79

50. 3.13(d) Districtwise number of female main and marginal workers 80

51. 3.14 District-wise Worker Population Ratio under usual activity 81

Chapter 4: Unemployment and Underemployment

54. 4.3 Current daily status unemployment rates by sex 84

56. 4.5 Unemployment rates (usual principal and subsidiary status 86

58. 4.7 Per 1000 distribution of usually employed (principal and 88

59. 4.8 Per 1000 distribution of person-days of usually employed 89

60. 4.9 Per 1000 distribution of person-days of persons employed 90

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64. 4.13 Districtwise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under 94

65. 4.14 Districtwise Unemployment Rate in West Bengal under 95

Chapter 5: Unemployment of Youths

67. 5.2 Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) 97

68. 5.3 Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) 98

69. 5.4 Unemployment rate among the youth (15-29 years) 99

Chapter 6: Working Hour

71. 6.2 Distribution of urban workers by number of normal working 101

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Chapter 8: Occupational Injury

78. 8.2 Industry-wise number of accidents in West Bengal 108

79. 8.3 Cause-wise number of accidents in West Bengal 109

80. 8.4 Agency-wise distribution of fatal accidents in West 110

81. 8.5 Industry-wise distribution of fatal accidents in West 111

82. 8.6 Cause-wise distribution of Jute Mill Accidents in West 112

83. 8.7 Employment position of safety officers in factories in 112

84. 8.8 Boilers & Economisers Statistics of West Bengal 113

Chapter 9: Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining