Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore have emerged as the top three Indian cities in terms of generating white-collar jobs with the financial capital of the country alone accounting for 28% of the new employment opportunities. On the other end of the scale, measured by the AEP, Chennai and Kolkata with 6% and 2% of jobs creation, respectively, were the worst performers amongst the four metros in generating employment opportunities. “Mumbai lived up to its name of being the financial capital creating the maximum job opportunities. The annual budget places emphasis on making Mumbai as the regional hub for finance. Such initiative will give further impetus towards job creation,” Assocham president Mahendra K Sanghi said while releasing the AEP study recently.
Delhi was the runner-up in terms of job creation; 25% of job placements were accounted for by this city while Bangalore emerged as the third best with 24% of the positions advertised. The city-wise analysis showed that the other two cities contributing to employment generation include Hyderabad and Pune which created 11% and 3% of the total jobs, respectively . In absolute terms, of the total 7,558 job positions tracked by AEP, Mumbai accounted for 2,147 of the job advertisements while Delhi/NCR provided 1,901 job opportunities and Bangalore created 1,790 job positions. The other contributors were Hyderabad with 807 insertions, Chennai (426), Pune (214) and Kolkata (135). The sector-wise analysis shows that IT and IT-enabled services contributed maximum to the employment market creating 45% of the white collar jobs tracked in the last two months.
