Combined Strength of Central Government Employees (including Railways) of 30.84 lakh (3.84 Million) ignored in this report
As per news media
reports quoting the statistics released by World Economic Forum,
Employees Strength of Indian Railways and Indian Army are among top 10
employers in the world. While Railways has employed as many as 1.4
Million (14 lakh) employees and positioned in Rank 8 biggest Employer in
the world, Indian Army is at Rank 9 among Top 10 Biggest Employers in
the World with Army Personnel strength of 1.3 Million (13 lakh).
Interestingly, the combined strength of Central
Government Employees in India (including Railway Employees) is around
30.50 lakh as per statistics presented in Parliament in 2014.
Even after excluding Railway Employee strength in
the figure released by Govt in 2014, total number of central government
employees including defence civilian employees is to the extent of 16.80
lakh (1.6 Million). But combined employee strength of all Ministries of
Central Government has not been taken in to account in the survey by
World Economic Forum.
Ministry wise Central Government Employees Strength (as per Census 2011)
Sl. No. |
Ministry
|
Number of regular
Employees
|
% age to the total |
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
1.
|
Communications & IT |
2,16,490
|
7.01
|
2.
|
Defence (Civilian) |
3,75,309
|
12.16
|
3.
|
Finance |
1,03,927
|
3.37
|
4.
|
Home Affairs |
8,01,092
|
25.95
|
5.
|
Railways |
13,28,199
|
43.02
|
6.
|
Others |
2,62,261
|
8.49
|
TOTAL
|
30,87,278
|
100.00
|
According to a research published by the World Economic Forum, the US Department of Defense is the world’s biggest employer which claims over 3.2 million employees on its roster.
Second is People’s Liberation Army
(the Chinese military) with 2.3 million, and in third is the US
supermarket giant Walmart with 2.1 million workers, the report said,
adding that “…175,000 of Walmart’s staff work for UK supermarket chain,
Asda”.
McDonald’s is the 4th biggest employer with 1.9
million employees, however, as the majority of its restaurants are
franchises, this figure falls to 4,20,000 when they are excluded, the
report said.
UK’s National Health Service was ranked at the 5th place, with 1.7 million employees, followed by state-run China National Petroleum Corporation with 1.6 million.
Another Chinese company, the State Grid Corporation of China was ranked 7th with 1.5 million.
Hon Hai Precision Factory (better known as the electronics manufacturer Foxconn) comes in at 10th place with 1.2 million people.
Source: 1. Census 2011
3. Wikipedia
[Reproduced from www.gconnect.in]