New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Employment in the country has increased by 22 per cent in the past seven years since 2013-14 as per the survey reports of labour bureau Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav told Parliament on Thursday The minister also told the House that according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey PLFS unemployment among the graduate level job seekers of 15 to 40 years of age has come down He told the House that as per PLFS the rise in employment in IT healthcare and eduction sectors reflects that employment opportunities were generated through various government programmes Replying to a supplementary question in the Rajya Sabha Yadav said employment has increased by 22 per cent in last seven years in comparison to 2013-14 Apart from the farm sector the other nine sectors like transport education hospitality trade and Information Technology IT have witnessed rise in employment The minister also said that 27 crore informal workers have been enrolled on the e-SHRAM portal during the last six months The e-SHRAM portal was launched in August 2021 with an objective to create a national database of unorganised workers and to facilitate delivery of social security schemeswelfare schemes of the central and state governments to the unorganised workers Any unorganised worker aged between 16 and 59 years is eligible for registration on this portal All registered workers are entitled to get an accidental insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh for a year free of cost through Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana PMSBY and several other benefits PTI KKS KKS HVA HVA

New Delhi Oct 18 PTI The coal stock situation at thermal power projects seems to be inching towards normalcy as the number of non-pit head projects having less than four days of coal supercritical stock reduced to 61 on Sunday from 70 a week ago government data showed According to latest coal stock data of the Central Electricity Authority CEA the number of non-pit head projects having less than four days of coal supercritical stock was 61 on October 17 and 70 on October 10 while it was 64 on October 3 The improvement in the coal stock situation assumes significance in view of the ongoing shortage of the dry fuel at thermal power plants in the country The Central Electricity Authority monitors coal stock situation of 135 thermal power plants with cumulative generation capacity of over 165 GW The data also showed that the number of power plants with zero days of coal has come down to 16 with cumulative installed generation capacity of 13495 MW compared to 17 with 16430 MW capacity a week back The number was 17 with 21325 MW capacity on October 3 The number of the plants with one day of coal stock has also reduced to 25 with 34080 MW capacity as on October 17 compared to 26 with 34930 MW capacity on October 10 This number was 20 with 22550 MW capacity on October 3 Similarly the number of plants with two days of coal also decreased to 18 with 25914 MW capacity from 22 27325 MW a week ago This figure was 20 with 29960 MW capacity on October 3 The number of plants with three days of coal also came down to 15 with 20290 MW capacity from 18 24094 MW a week ago The number was 19 with 22000 MW capacity on October 3 The number of plants with four days of coal has increased to 18 with 21915 MW capacity as of Sunday from 13 with 15210 MW capacity a week ago showing improvement in dry fuel stock The number was 15 with 16890 MW capacity in the preceding week The number of plants with five days of coal has decreased to 10 12630 MW capacity from 11 with 10775 MW capacity a week ago This number was six 7174 MW on October 3 The power ministry data also showed improvement in the power shortage situation as it came down to 1456 MW On October 17 from 2714 MW a week back Amid the coal shortage at power plants the peak power shortage had moderated to 986 MW on October 15 in sharp contrast to 11626 MW on October 7 The 11626 MW peak power shortage on October 7 was the highest during the first half of this month Experts are of the view that power demand has moderated with the onset of autumn and heavy rains in many parts of the country this weekend They opined that with the governments efforts to ramp up coal supplies to power plants the dry fuel situation would further improve Earlier last week the power ministry had stated that the capacity of units under outage due to low coal stocks reduced from 11 GW on October 12 to 5 GW on October 14 PTI KKS KKS ABM ABM