THAT an Italian businessman has shared a third of his 963,000 ( $1.36 million) lottery win with his employees as he had promised.

THAT an employee covered under Employees' Provident Fund, despite his 30 years service, gets maximum pension of Rs. 3999 per month inclusive of employer's contribution whereas a govt. employee retiring in 1995 at last drawn salary of Rs. 95,585 got Rs.35,000 first pension but now he gets Rs. 16,000 per month.

THAT on investment of Rs.5,000 crores, the total jobs of direct workers in the textile sector will touch 12 lakh.

THAT in 1966, there were 1,168 registered factories in Harayana employing 71,016 workers whereas now the number is 9,954 and whopping 6,81,416 persons are working.

THAT in order to insure punctuality, the Ministry of External Affairs is appointing an officer, not below the rank of under secretary, 'Punctuality Officer' to keep an eye on the coming and going of the staff.

THAT every year, over 57 lakh people are registered with Employment Exchanges in India .

THAT over 577 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh will have 1,93,275 seats for engineering aspirants.

THAT former ICICI Bank veteran Shikha Sharma will take home a hefty pay packet as Axis Bank managing director and CEO that will be in excess of Rs. 2 crore a year.

THAT although Indian Hotels have put a freeze on new recruitments but have given 20-30% raise on senior executive salaries.

THAT two primary school teachers of a government school (Haryana), who have been drawing salary from the Edcuation Department, have allegedly "employed" another teachers to work for them only for Rs. 1,500 per month.

THAT a survey conducted by Delhi University social work says that out of 58,570 beggars in Delhi , 4 are post graduates and 22 earned between Rs. 200 and 500 a day.

THAT maintenance engineers of Air India get Rs. 9,000 per month allowance as qualification pay for approving air-worthiness of particular six types of aircrafts whereas there are only four types of aircrafts but the engineers are paid Rs. 54,000 per month.

THANKS to inspiration, one Kathiresan on completing his Ph.D. has joined as a lecturer in Govt. college while two decades ago he was driver of APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India.

BECAUSE of incorrect date of birth, some employees in J&K State continue to be in government service while their sons have already superannuated.

THAT Ajay Pal Banga, CEO, Asia Pacific of Citigroup will get a package of Rs. 90 crore from August onward.

THAT in addition to several unrecognized unions, Air India has 14 recognised unions.

THAT in view of the rising awareness and growing competition in the garment world, over 25,000 jobs are likely to be created in the next three years.

THAT Textile Sector, comprising of cotton, fiber, spinning, weaving and garment, etc. provides direct employment to more than 30 million people in India .

THAT Nandan Nilekani, while earning Rs. 91 lakh annually, has joined the central government with a salary of Rs. 81 lakh, minus perks.

THAT a survey reveals that over 92% of Japanese do not use their vacation time fully which is compelling the government to consider making of compulsory vacation law.

THAT number of apprentices in Japan is 11 lakh and Germany 6 lakh whereas in India it is only 2.5 lakhs.

THAT over 800 employees of British Airways have offered to work without salary.

THAT two Russian women who complained to Labour authorities, got an unpleasant surprise when their former boss paid them more than $1,000 to settle a labour dispute - in dozens of heavy bags full of tiny coins.

THAT on introduction of biometric identification system by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi , over 85,000 employees are registered whereas the remaining 45,000 , who have been receiving salary, are nowhere traceable.

THAT around 37, out of 100 workers in India , say that they are being bullied.

THAT the Custom Officers at Kathmandu Tribhuvan Airport will not be able to accept bribe since they will have to wear the trousers with no pockets.

THAT although the number of employees in the Public Sector Companies shrank from 16.4 lakhs to 15.7 lakhs between 2006-07 and 2007-08, salary costs of Central Public Sector Enterprises are estimated to have shot up by 22% whereas further package is expected shortly.

THAT incidentally, American Airlines, which is no paragon of efficiency, has about 60,000 employees but seven times the number of aircraft of Air India , and services eight times the number of passengers.

THAT Cognizant Technology has increased its employee strength in software testing practice by ten times to around 9,000 people in the last four years.

THAT Maharashtra government expelled 3,148 resident doctors from 18 government and civic hospitals on 12.7.2009 as they continued with their strike, ignoring repeated appeals from the government to withdraw it.

THAT despite recession Wal Mart keeps clear of pink slips in its employee strength of 21 lakh.

THAT a middle aged woman in Munger ( Bihar ) is alleged to have hired contract killers to get her husband killed so that her son could secure a job in railway on compassionate grounds.

THAT the number of unemployed persons registered with Employment Exchanges in India is 3.9 crores.

THAT India has five million overseas workers from the information technology, finance, biotechnology, construction, healthcare, hospitality and agriculture sectors.

THAT Sadashiv Lad, a 52 year old electrical engineer from a Pune firm, "could well be every personnel manager's dream come true." Lad has created a unique world record for himself by never taking a single day's leave in the last 21 years of his service. He crowned this record by being punctual, without the blemish of even a single day of late coming.

THAT the State Consumer Commission has directed Emirates Airlines to pay a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to a passenger who lost his job, because the airlines rescheduled his flight without informing.

THAT in Germany co-determination is the rule and employees have the legal right to voice their views in setting company policies.

THAT HCL Technologies created approximately 25,000 jobs in US and UK combined in the past six months.

THAT buffeted by a shrinking world demand and drying orders, struggle to stay afloat over 7.5 lakh people could end up losing jobs as an embattled export sector.

THAT in Gurgaon (Haryana) and Noida (UP) there has been employment growth of 11% and 14% respectively.

That Sulabh International is employing over 50,000 employees.

THAT although Air India has deferred the payment of salary because of recession and the employees have been agitating but British Airways has asked its staff to work for free of salary as part of Company's survival in tough market conditions.

THAT eleventh fiveyear plan to achieve employment for all and 92.3 m jobs need to be created.

THAT Indians in USA have contributed $105 billion to the US economy by creating 3 lakh jobs.

THAT 36K jobs to be lost by auto parts sector in Canada this year due to sharp fall in car manufacturing.

THAT the head of Australia's most admired financial institution was stoic after taking a 99 -per cent pay cut following investment bank Macquarie Group's first fall in profits in 17 years.

THAT as on date, there are 4.49 crore provident fund subscribers.

THAT the total number of employees for each aircraft, Kingfisher Airlines has 6000 , Jet Airways 12800 whereas Air India has 31500 .

THAT Tata Consultancy has over 1,43,761 Indian and 10,000 foreign national employees.

THAT towards an attraction for job security as highlighted by UPSC, there has been sudden rise of 42 per cent in applications for Government jobs.

THAT over 2,000 units are engaged in plastic and rig moulding, welding and paint manufacturing and could operate only 3 days in a week which results into 1.8 lakh jobs of the Contract Labour.

THAT in Jalandhar sports industry over 1,50,000 persons have been working directly or indirectly.

THAT for causing loss to the Bank, an ex-Indian bank head gets 14 years jail.

THAT many an American might be staring at unemployment and deep pay cuts but there are still quite a few who are being paid as much as $80,0000 annually, that too for not working.

THAT Ben Southall, 34, of Petersfield ( Britain ) beat nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for best job in the world to wim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the great Barrier Reef while writing a blog to promote the area.

THAT each employee at infotech bellwether Infosys Technologies is worth as much as Rs. 97 lakh, based on the potential value of their future earnings for the company.

THAT an employee of Flight Caterers has been dismissed alleging that he has concealed 30 big soup spoons in his shoe.

THAT ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has recently retrenched over 5,000 employees.

THAT over 40 Municipal Corporation of Delhi engineers are facing vigilance probe but still working.

THAT in second Indian Premier League, April-May '09 over 15 employees of Air India have played cricket.

THAT the son of Paanwallah in Lucknow has made it to civil services.

THAT forced or coerced labour costs workers worldwide over $20 billion annually, a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said.

THAT the number of women working in the ITBPO sector grew 60% in the last two years to 6.7 lakh in 2008, as per a survey.

THAT over 55% of the employees are working from home in UK more often, primarily to save money.

THAT a software engineer has been asked by the court to sweep one hour a day for one month the premises of the Gandhi Hospital for eve-teasing.

THAT a government study to assess the effect of the slowdown on jobs has thrown up a surprising finding - employment has revived and the jobs grew by 2.5 lakh in 2 months.

THAT India 's second largest truck maker, Ashok Leyland asked workers at its oldest plant to use this downtime to suggest ways to improve efficiency and cut costs. They came up with 1,586 innovations in six months twice their usual output

THAT section 135-B of the Representation of People Act provides maximum fine of Rs.500 in case an establishment is not closed on the Polling Day even of Lok Sabha.

THAT mobile phone maker Motorola's Indiaborn Chief Sanjay Jha has emerged America 's top paid CEO, while Citigroup's Vikram Pandit tops the league among bailed out banks, a recent survey said.

THAT 40 retrenched workers in Nashik locked themselves carrying with them cylinder and kerosene and threatened to blow themselves and relented only when the employer assured them to give a second thought on their termination.

THAT the French workers have released the manager of a factory run by US firm 3M who was held for more than 24 hours after a deal was reached on renegotiating terms for laid-off staff.

THAT the New York hospital paid $20,000 (Rs.10 lakh) after its staff negligently shaved an elderly Sikh patient's beard, eyebrows and moustache resulting in a lawsuit from his family.

THAT Lijjat Papad, began with capital of Rs. 80 only, is now providing selfemployment to 40,000 women.

THAT in March, 6,63,000 people lost their jobs in the US , says the Department of Labour. Since December, 2007, about 5 million US jobs have been lost.

THAT Durbar Mahila Samanya Committee, Kolkata, an apex body, has 65,000 registered sex workers in West Bengal .

THAT a high school cheerleading coach in Washington has been fired after she posed nude for Playboy magazine.

THAT academic institutes, especially business schools, are bracing themselves to teach a lesson or two on fighting slowdown.

THAT the overall manpower strength of the Indian IT and BPO industry for FY10 continues to remain nearly 2.23 million.

THAT Mr. B.G. Srinivas, head of European operations and an executive council member, was the highest paid employee at Infosys in the year ended March 2009, earning about Rs. 4.67 crore.

THAT over 4,14,000 of the 7,11,000 workers in the gem-cutting industry in Gujarat have lost their jobs, more in Saurashtra.

THAT employees of Hong Kong 's Cathay Pacific Airways told to take unpaid leave as part of a cost-cutting measure.

THAT HR Director of Infosys Mr. Mohandas Pai earned the highest compensation package of Rs. 2.59 crore as compared to Rs. 1.80 crore in 2007-2008.

THAT M/s Headline News Channel, the employer Soumaya Vishwanathan who was murdered in wee hours has been prosecuted for violation of section 14 of the Delhi Shops & Establishments Act, 1954 pertaining to working hours and has been imposed maximum fine of only Rs.250 .

THAT the panchayat raj department of Andhra Pradesh has finally decided to dismiss 39 officials who have not attended office for 10 years or more.

THAT the 1.5 million Indian Americans in the US continue to top as the besteducated, highest-paid and top-placed community among foreign-born population in the country.

THAT in 2006 the immigrant-founded US-based companies generated $52 billion in revenue and employed 450,000 workers.

THAT an estimate has been given for renovation of Delhi Labour Minister's bungalow for Rs. 22 lakh.

THAT one public sector chief has spent Rs. 13 lakh on refurbishing his house. Another Rs. 5 lakh were paid to a Vaastu Shastra consultant so that good vibes flow freely within the house.

THAT the housewives in Kerala, who will soon set up housewives union, want wages and pension .

THAT a study by industry chamber Assocham says that the stalled projects hold up 1.6 lakh jobs.

THAT police has arrested Delhi Municipal Corporation's Deputy Commissioner who demanded Rs. 2 crore as bribe for desealing a farm house.

THAT out of 1,600 participating students from all over the country three Indian-Americans have figured among the top 10 high school scientists.

THAT in order to tide over the slowdown and to tide over pink slips, the Regional Provident Fund Office, Mumbai has received more than 15,000 withdrawl applications in excess of normal count in the past couple of months.

THAT with Rs. 45,555 turnover on March 30, 2008, the Steel Authority of India workforce is 1.25 lakh.

THAT the head of world's biggest steel makers, Lakshmi Mittal has saved $18 millions a year by replacing 60 Germans with 60 Indians.

THAT for health care management by 2012, there will be requirement of over 7,00,000 professionals.

THAT one in every four Indian companies, survey by HR consulting firm Manpower says, will maintain a steady pace of hiring in the April-June quarter of 2009.

THAT Radhakrishna Hospitality employing 20,000 people across 22 States has been Sodexo, French food giant operating 80 countries with 3,50,000 employees.

THAT Calcutta High Court has suspended a magistrate for habitually coming late to office.

THAT in a drive to check corruption, the Indian Railways has ordered departmental action against 8638 officers including 117 gazetted officers.

THAT with 255 centres, Vandna Luthra's Curls & Curves employs 8,000 people and she remembers the names of 1,000 of her employees and their spouses.

THAT the Board of directors has recommended that the CEO of ICICI Bank, Chanda Kochhar's basic salary scale be hiked to Rs. 7,00,000 -Rs. 13,50,000 from Rs.4,00,000- Rs.10,50,000 per month.

THAT the Indian Railways is the largest employer of man-power in the world.

THAT for renovation of bathroom, a top IAS officer in Hyderabad has received Rs. 19.23 lakh.

THAT a US airline allegedly denied a flight to a female flight attendant for not dressing provocatively enough.

THAT at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi , instead of working for prescribed 48 hours a week, the doctors work for 110 hours a week.

THAT in hiring process by banks in current year, for 30,000 over 24 lakh candidates have applied.

THAT Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University 's programme in human resource management has received 70 applications from foreign students and accepted 18 students this year.

THAT for 40 posts of engineers in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), over 850 engineers have applied.

THAT Siemens' CEO, J. Schubert came to India in 1997 at a salary of Rs. 10 lakh a year and on leaving now he was drawing Rs.4.5 crore.

THAT in Dec, 2008 the CEOs of Big Three automakers have agreed to take only $ 1 a year if the US government agreed to bail out with $ 2 billion in assistance.

THAT the first scheduled airline in the world to enroll a woman pilot, was Indian Airlines in 1966.

THAT the workers at a steel plant near Berlin found 100,000 ($ 128,500 ) in a safe that a bank had sent to be scrapped - but they did the decent thing and gave it back.

THAT an American security company has agreed to pay $ 24,000 as compensation to a Sikh man who had complained that he was discriminated against for wearing a turban.

THAT a CEO of non-PSU firm receives close to 7 times the total pay of a CEO belonging to an equally placed Public Sector Undertaking.

THAT Virgin Mobile workers will be allowed to take the special leave allowance to take care of their new pet, which is required to be 10 weeks old or younger.

THAT an Australian company has decided to grant its staff a "peternity" leave if they want to look after their newborn pups and kittens.

THAT the annual fee of an MBBS student at All lndia Institute of Medical Sciences is Rs.850 which includes hostel and tuition fee whereas over Rs.1.7 crore are spent by AllMS and over 53% leave lndia to work abroad.

THAT on next day of Satyam scam, over 14,000 employees had put up their CVs on job sites.

THAT Inspector under the Factories Act has issued a notice to the Bishop School , Ranchi asking for coverage of the school under the Factories Act as if some manufacturing process is carried on there.

THAT Royal Dragon at Bangkok , the second largest restaurant in the world, employs 322 cooks and 1000 waiters.

THAT Life Insurance Corporation of lndia has once 1,20,000 LIC employees including grade Ill, grade IV and development officers.

THAT Security & Intelligence Services, Rs.1600 crore Company, employs 30,000 security guards who don't have any union.

THAT some duty officers of ONGC who get Rs.1800 per month towards transport allowance have also been provided private vehicles for which ONGC is paying upto Rs.65,000 a month.

THAT a jobless scientist with a doctorate in physics has applied for a street sweeper's job in Seol.

THAT in 2008, there were 82 hartals in Kerala State .

THAT a Call Centre has not only to apologise besides payment of £ 250 compensation because its employee scared a British woman with lewd SMSes.

THAT for producing fake certificates for appointment, the Bihar Government has sacked 15,000 teachers.

THAT lnfosys Technologies has announced an initiative as per which if an employee reaches before 8 am throughout a month, he will get award of Rs.500 per month.

THAT Haryana Government is starting a driving training institute in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki wherein 12,000 drivers will be trained every year.

THAT on 13.1.2009, Mid-Tier Software Services has asked 70 employees to leave without any notice for showing false information in their resumes at the time of their joining.

THAT no steps have been taken by the State Government for welfare of building construction workers despite collecting cess of over Rs.940

THAT the trained dais (mid wives), working in West Bengal Government run health centres, are paid only Rs.50 per month.

THAT over 4,40,000 establishments are registered with EPFO in India .

THAT a survey among final year students of India 's leading B-schools has found that 71% would rather work in India than abroad.

THAT Gulf region has over 5 million expatriate working on different jobs.

THAT Leslie T Chang in his book 'Factory girls from village to city in a changing China ' has stated that the factories in China has a world of brutal 12 hours shifts and bathroom breaks once in 4 hours.

THAT Infosys has 300 people in its HR department.

THAT according to Industry body Laghu Udyog Bharti (LUB) the small scale sector contributes 40 per cent of exports and in 3 million units employs about 16.7 million people.

THAT on 12.11.2008, one Kailash Kumar - an educated DTC Driver - lodged protest in support of his demand by climbing up 40 -Ft. TV tower in Delhi , as did Dharmendra in Sholay, and it took 50 minutes to bring him down by Police and the Fire Brigade.

THAT 150 Indian banks employ around 7 lakh employees.

THAT in Andhra Pradesh, after failure of their thirteen-day strike, several unions of 10,000 teachers have decided to adopt Japanese model involving working harder to register their protest by not boycotting the work but even taking classes on Sundays and other holidays.

THAT a group of colleagues of District Health Officer in Rattangiri stripped him to the waist who has been threatening them of rejecting his overtures.

THAT Infosys receives over 1.3 million every year from job seekers.

THAT the singular advantage in China has, over other countries, its large female working population over 45 per cent of the total workforce as opposed to India 's meagre 25 per cent.

THAT the US Bureau of Labour Statistics says 2,40,000 jobs had been cut in October, 2008.

THAT Google attracts nearly 130 applicants per post.

THAT Prime Minister Rozgar Yojna (PMRY) would create over 36 lakh jobs.

THAT one Bandhu Das resident of Jagatsingpur (Orissa), now being 100 years old, has refused to take old age pension from the government since keeping strong, he is earning enough to look after himself and has stated such money can be disbursed to help the disabled who are in distress.

THAT Public Sector Bank (P&SB) needs to recruit over 3.5 lakh executives in the next five years.

THAT in revision of pay scale for government employees, the minimum salary at the bottom of the pyramid would be over 3 times as high as stipulated minimum wages of his counterpart employed in private sector anywhere in India .

THAT for 20,000 posts in State Bank of India , over 2.4 million candidates sat for written test meaning thereby that for one seat 120 candidates.

THAT the domestic BPO industry is employing 4.67 lakh people.

THAT out of 5 million security guards, a security agency G4S employs over 1,31,000 guards in the country.

THAT the second face revival of unique number of Employees' Provident Fund will cost Rs. 51 crores.

THAT a January 2008 Nasscom-Everest India BPO study says more than 7,00,000 people are employed in the country's BPO industry.

THAT the Airline industry is likely to lose 1,00,000 jobs in the coming year world-wide as the financial meltdown and soaring crude oil prices.

THAT the number of women employees out of 30 lakh Central government is at least 20 per cent.

THAT 15 students of IIT-Kharagpur received regret letters from US-based information technology companies, saying they could not absorb the students due to "internal restructuring plans".

THATKingfisher is slashing trainee pay by 90 per cent i.e. from Rs. 2 lakh to 20,000 .

THAT the Sixth Pay Commission's report for Central government employees has introduced a new term, CCL, or child-card leave, as a result a woman can avail 730 days or two years, of CCL for two children apart from 360 days of maternity leave or 180 days, 19 gazetted holidays, and 58 days of casual, privilege and medical leave. Besides that, they can even avail of two years of discretionary study leave.

THAT a part-time employee at a bank who had challenged a discrimination in granting maternity leave has been ordered the full 135 days after 17 months of her delivery.

THAT small car Nano project would create over 12,000 jobs in the area.

THAT India produces over 25 million University Graduates including 4,00,000 engineers and 20,000 IT professionals annually but according to IT industry body Nasscom only half of these new graduates are employable.

THAT even after ceasing to be employed by bleeding Air India and working with other airlines are availing Free Air Tickets from the national career.

THAT despite recession, the pay package of Shri Anil Ambani has grown by close to six times over the past fiscal.

THAT according to Mr. K.V. Kamath, CEO of ICICI Bank, out of 7,50,000 resumes, they could find only 1,75,000 qualified candidates last year.

THAT National Academy of Construction (NAC) has planned to train over 50,000 workers engaged in construction activity and related trades across the country.

THAT the Retail industry is expected to throw up two million jobs in the next two years.

THAT NTPC has lost over 100 engineers in the past one year to firms such as Tata Power and Lanco Infratech.

THAT the present Government of Bihar has appointed 2.5 lakh teachers and out of that 50 per cent are women.

THAT Banking and Insurance sector is expected to generate a million jobs every year for the next five years.

THAT the number of Government employees among salaried people in the country is 37 per cent and almost one in 20 workers in India is a Government employee.

THAT the ITO and BPO industry is currently having a workforce of over two million, irrespective of adding over 3,00,000 a year.

THAT Infosys hires just 1% over 1.5 million applications it receives every year whereas Harvard University takes 9 per cent of those who apply.

THAT a forest guard of Uttarakhand has finally been directed to be reinstated by the Supreme Court after fighting his battle for 24 years and only two more years are left to retire.

THAT in Kerala, the State Government employees retire only at 55.

THAT Accenture Technology would add its present head count from 37,000 to 50,000 in next few years.

THAT in order to train the workforce, the Infosys is spending Rs. 750 crores a year.

THAT the Accenture employs over 1,80,000 number of people in 49 countries globally whereas in India it has over 37,000 employees only when the activities were started in 2003.

THAT an employee of J.K. Industries ultimately got his salary after 30 years of legal battle against his termination for loss of confidence.

THAT out of 5 million Indian workers, all over the world, more than 90% of these are in Gulf and South East Asia .

THAT in 2006, the number of workers who have cleared immigration was 6.77 lakhs.

THAT in a drive to detect power theft by Punjab Electricity Board, a PCS Officer, Surinder Kaur Riar, has been caught and made to pay dues to the tune of Rs. 2.83 lakhs on the spot.

THAT after settlement of workers at Bajaj Auto, over 2050 workers received their VRS benefits but on closure of the factory, about 1700 workers have been left without any job.

THAT Trent 's Star Bazar is setting up 50 new stores across the country and the number of people to be employed will be 15,000 .

THAT thirty years before, the Heavy Engineering Corporation in Jharkhand, has paid Re. 1 less as salary to 24 of its employees and now has to pay total compensation of Rs. 9,70,000 .

THAT in domestic, BPO industry employs over 4.67 lakh people.

THAT when there are illegal deductions from wages of the employees by an employer, the employee can claim ten times of the amount of deduction but even when there is a delay in making timely payment of wages, there is a fine of Rs. 25 only.

THAT over 360 flights of Lufthansa AG - the second largest airline of Europe - were halted since the pilots resorted to strike in support of their demand for pay hike.

THAT IT and Finance firms are set to add over 1.65 lakh employees in next few years.

THAT under Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act which is now very popular enactment, definition of the workman still continues to be one who is drawing wages upto Rs. 500 only.

THAT Appollo Tyre Company is suffering a production loss of Rs. 5 crore a day and the Government losing Rs. 70 lakh daily in excise duty due to lock-out in its plant at Prambra in Kerala..

THAT Abhinav Bindra has invested Rs. 1.2 crores including Rs. 30 lakh for participation in competition abroad.

THAT Kingfisher Airlines plans to hire 17 foreign pilots for its international operations which it is starting from September, 2008.

THAT the current number of workers covered under ESI is over one crore .

THAT one Medical College , in Maharashtra, has made mandatory that every student passing M.B.B.S. will practise in rural Maharashtra and out of 109 successful candidates only 3 opted for practice and 106 paid Rs. 1,00,000 for break of bond.

THAT a report reveals that an average 100 workforce in Indian Industry, over 47 are overweight.

THAT out of eligible persons for employment, about 54.26 lakh were employed whereas only 2.27 lakh persons were unemployed. Whereas 3.71 lakh persons got employment during 2005-06 in Delhi .

THAT according to Mr. M.K. Pandian, Managing Director, Ma Foi Management Consultants, there are the health sector and the education, training and consultancy vertical would be close to 2,95,829 jobs and 1,66,006 jobs respectively whereas the hospitability sector would generate as many as 4,26,688 jobs.

THAT while expressing concern that the freshers are not readily employable and under extensive training, Mr. Mohandas Pai, Member of the Board, Infosys, has stated that the resident training alone costs the Company Rs.2.55 lakh each person.

THAT out of 10 lakh total diamond cutting and polishing units in India, there are over 6,00,000 workers in Surat itself.

THAT the Delhi Transport Corporation employing 6,000 regular and 1,000 contractual drivers is not able to manage 50 per cent of scheduled trips because 30 per cent of the regular drivers are not physically fit and abstain from duty.

THAT on a surprise visit by the Rural Development and Panchayats Minister, Punjab on 8-7-2008 in the morning found that 60 per cent officers and employees were absent from duty.

THAT on a surprise visit by the Rural Development and Panchayats Minister, Punjab on 8-7-2008 in the morning found that 60 per cent officers and employees were absent from duty.

THAT on a surprise visit by the Rural Development and Panchayats Minister, Punjab on 8-7-2008 in the morning found that 60 per cent officers and employees were absent from duty.

THAT Tata group employs 19,000 Americans in its 18 different companies established in USA .

THAT Indian-American couple Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, sentenced to jail for "enslaving" two Indonesian maids and have been ordered by a US court to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to the two women.

THAT the expansion in cement industry faces a shortage of manpower. In coming years, it would need around 20,000 people, for filling up its direct and indirect positions.

THAT India could incur losses to the tune of $237 billion by 2015 due to a rise in lifestyle diseases like diabetes, stroke and cancer because ofunhealthy workplaces, a new WHO report has said.

THAT Debabrata Kantha, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, quit his job to return to Orissa and join the Congress in January by paying Rs.20.60 lakh which he had to pay to the government to quit before time.

THAT for 20,000 vacancies in the State Bank of India , over 20 lakh candidates have taken the examination.

THAT on coverage of establishments employing 10 or more persons, the number of members of Employees' Provident Funds would swell to 80 million

THAT in the inaugural drive of the Border Security Force to recruit women constables, over 650 girls from different districts of Punjab came to Jalandhar.

THAT under Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 as enforced in Delhi with effect from 10.1.2002, the State Government has not provided any facility to any worker despite collecting Rs.140 crores.

THAT in a hope usurp Japan’s place as Asia greater economic power, China turns out some 4,00,000 engineers every year.

THAT most business process organizations in rural India declare that over 60% of their employees are women and in some cases, it is even 100%.

THAT Employees’ Provident Funds amount that flows in the total Corpus every year is Rs.25,000 crore.

THAT in order to ensure permanent sanitation in all revenue villages, the UP government has created one lakh posts of Safai Karamcharis.

THAT according to industry estimates, of 3,000 pilots in India, 600 are foreign pilots. The country will need as many as 10,000 pilots by 2020.

THAT in a petition against All India Institute Medical Sciences, the Delhi High Court has quashed the promotions of 64 Associate Professors.

THAT Mr. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is the richest man of the world who has not taken a salary hike for the last quarter of a century and also pays back his company expenses such as phone charges etc.

THAT a major Iranian State-owned-Company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their job.

THAT out of 200,000-odd workers who travel around this time every year from poor villages in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to Punjab to help sow the crop, over 40 per cent haven’t turned up this season and those working are getting 50 per cent increase in their wages.

THAT Arun Sarin, the India-born outgoing CEO of the global telecom giant, is being offered a severance package of a whopping £25 million.

THAT more and more Chinese are taking up jobs in India, for instance, Reliance Industries Ltd employs over 1,000 Chinese in its East West Gas Pipeline

THAT the rupee appreciation against dollar is affecting decline in exports from India which has resulted into loss of about 20 lakh jobs.

THAT at a time when Bihari workers are under violent attack in different States, a Mauritian firm has sent a proposal to the Bihar government seeking 500 services of ITI-trained youths.

THAT the fast evolving retailing as an industry will create in five years at least 25,00,000 jobs in India.

THAT in 2007-08, top four IT Companies have spent Rs.28,322 crore on staff.

THAT in a High School (Telugu medium) at Lal Bazar, Hyderabad, there are only 6 children but 7 teachers.

THAT a recent report reveals that in order to meet shortage of skilled workers, a Real Estate Company in Northern India is importing over 20,000 skilled labourers from the Middle East to work on their project in India .

THAT IT giant Infosys’s human resources head TV Mohandas Pai takes home the highest salary of $82,033 and bonus of $3,08,625 among all the Board of Directors of the company, including Chairperson Nandan M. Nilekani and Chief Executive Officer
S. Gopalakrishnan.

THAT for over one billion sq.’ building construction activity as going on in the country, over 20 lakh people are needed.

THAT Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC), having announced three posts of peon, has received over 11,000 applications.

THAT in Uttar Pradesh, the process has started to recruit 88,000 primary teachers.

THAT on failure to reinstate a driver, the Supreme Court has imposed cost of Rs.1,00,000 upon Haryana Roadways.

THAT while disposing of a petition involving 73 cabin overweight crew members of Pakistan International Airlines, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has asked the Airlines to give a chance to the crew members to groom themselves before they are fired.

THAT despite imposition of ban over 15 years ago, the government’s own admission says that there are 4.42 lakh scavengers in the country.

THAT Central Jail in Rajamundry has started a canteen on affordable prices and an inmate in jail is Ramaiah who has served as assistant Chef at Taj Krishna (5 star hotel) in Hyderabad for two years after completing his hotel management course.

THAT it’s been over 30 years and Girja Shankar Gautam is still fighting for justice. Interestingly, he fought his own case. He moved Supreme Court in 1983 and since then he has argued the case several times.

THAT in Dubai Court, first of its kind ruling, sentenced 45 Indian construction workers to six month’s jail, to be followed by their deportation, for joining a protest against poor wages.

THAT seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have faculty shortage of 882; over 60 teaching posts are vacant in six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs); 1,820 teaching posts are lying vacant in 18 Central Universities and 727 teaching posts are vacant in 74 out of 231 State Universities.

THAT Raj Kishore Pandey (52), a Post Graduate from a prestigious college – Hansraj College – obtained Ph. D in 2000, is working as a Chowkidar in the Arts Faculty where Post-graduate in Ph. D classes are taken in the North Campus of Delhi University.

THAT one Rabindranath Bhadra a former employee of Jagatballavpur Block Health Centre, after his retirement, gets ready and set off to work by 6 AM every day, has been working for 14 years without any pay.

THAT the statics of teachers in schools in 2006- 07 reveal that Chandigarh has 82.7% female teachers in all States.

THAT deep-in-red Indian Airlines now merged with Air India operating maximum of 55 flights daily from Delhi has a whopping 270 pilots and copilots who are stationed in Delhi and even while travelling as a passenger, the pilot will get 75% flying allowance.

THAT Indra Nooyi, the Indian-born Chief Executive of Pepsico, received $14.74 million (Rs.6,04,34,000) in compensation in 2007, her first full year as head of the world’s second largest soft drink maker.

THAT for about 56 Buy-hows, Tatas have paid $133 million (Rs.5.32 crore) in fees to the
advisers last year.

THAT the Orissa Health Minister was locked up by nurses who were sitting on Dharna and was freed only after the police arrived.

THAT three daughters of Narayanbhai Dantani have discovered that a jeweller Budhalal Zaveri who died childless recently in his will has left his entire property valued at Rs.1,100 crore in favour of his employee i.e. Narayanbhai Dantani.

THAT Lovelorn staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad breakup with a partner, with more heartache leave on offer as they get older.

THAT 155 software firms in Bangalore which have sought permission from the Labour Department for engaging women, over 29,989 women are working in night shift.

THAT the Planning Commission document says against a demand for 22 lakh nurses in the country, there are only 11 lakh nurses. As per industry estimates, the rate of attrition for nursing staff is around 18-20%, which is the highest in the healthcare delivery system.

THAT out of 6,000 drivers of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), over 30 per cent have been found to be medically unfit to drive.

THAT with the addition of 25,000 employees, the number of employees at Infosys will cross one lakh this year making Infosys one of India’s largest employers.

THAT at Gauripur, (West Bengal) Primary Health Centre, Sanjit Kumar Sarkar, a Group D employee (general duty attendant) is working in place of a doctor who was transfered 4 years ago, and is only Class X pass.

THAT the latest statics reveal that State of Gujarat has over 15,45,712 shops & establishments employing over 26,71,279 persons.

THAT a survey of 3,536 beggars by Delhi University's Social Work Department found four had university degrees while six had completed college. The study said several beggars earn upto Rs.500 a day. As many as 355 beggars have their own houses.

THAT the Economic Survey of 2007-08 says that in next five years, 5 million job opportunities would be created.

THAT lateral placement at Indian Institute of Management, the highest offer by a global consultant firm has touched Rs.52 lakh per year although the pay package is still at a negotiation stage.

THAT the first time, students at some of Mumbai's biggest B-schools have rejected highpaying foreign offers for Indian companies.

THAT the government has approved incentive schemes for creating 1,00,000 employment opportunities a year for the physically challenged persons in the private sector.

THAT India is facing a shortage of commercial pilots as over 944 foreign pilots have been hired out of whom Jet Airways has 276 in its total strength of 799 .

THAT ICICI Prudential has increased its staff strength from 16,000 to 30,000 over the last year.

THAT Som Mittal ex-Managing Director of a BPO Company who is currently the Nasscom President has been fighting for principle otherwise could have paid maximum fine of Rs.10,000 under Karnataka Shops & Establishments Act for lapse to provide security staff who was raped, murdered.

THAT a skilled German manpower costs around Rs.1,500 an hour, whereas the same can be hired for less than Rs.100 in India for a day.

THAT there has been upto 50% increase in the wages of construction workers in the past one year in all metros.

THAT Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has recorded highest over international placement offer of Rs. 1.44 crore made by a financial conglomerate.

THAT February, 2008 has been a record Payday in Indian Sport under Indian Premier League Matches whereby Mr. Dhoni will get Rs.37.5 lakh for one T20 match - over 10 times what he gets for every test he plays.

THAT a little known woman trade union labour leader Chand Biwi Zaidi of Engineering Mazdoor Union, Mumbai earns an estimated Rs. 40 lakh a year.

THAT both the leading B-School in Delhi have an interesting trend to show this year placement in terms of average salaries, women have overshot their male counterpart.

THAT the Centre will offer incentives of Rs.1,800 crore to private sector companies that employ handicapped people in the form of contributing their (companies') share to the Employees' Provident Funds and ESI.

THAT a widow of DTC got pension only after struggling for 23 years.

THAT BPO industry employs more than 7 lakh people across 25 countries and accounts for about 40 per cent of the $26-29 billion global BPO offshore market and would create about eight million indirect jobs by 2012.

THAT Infosys Technology is employing over 82,000 staff.

THAT the public sector banks are short of over 1 lakh staff.

THAT India has 3,950 pilots for its passenger carriers against a total requirement of 4,540 whereas 1,000 pilots would be required for private and non-scheduled operators.

THAT software services firm Infosys Technologies has imposed a fine of $2000 and penalty of Rs. 5 lakhs on its chief executive officer S. Gopalakrishnan and an independent director Jeffrey Sean Lehman for violating company rules.

THAT when it comes to job search, Indians are most net-savy in the world since they make highest use of internet for job hunting with 40% finding their recent job online.

THAT there are going to be one lakh jobs for airport works in Mumbai.

THAT in Japan, the salaried class is spared of the tedium of filing income-tax return if tax has already been deducted at source from such salary and the employee does not have any refund claim or any other source of income.

THAT a German Computer firm has sacked three employees because they don't smoke - reason - the non smoker give lesser productivity.

THAT industry chamber FICCI says one million new jobs will be created in the textiles sector over the next few years, with a projected investment of over Rs. 90,000 crore.

THAT McKinsey, the consulting firm, estimates that India 's factories will need 73 milliion workers by 2015, which it estimated at being 50 per cent more than the number today.

THAT in last six months, Maharashtra has seen more than 7 IAS officers have left their jobs to join the private sector on salaries that are atleast five times higher.

THAT Indian companies will raise their employees' salaries by an average 25% this year compared to 14% in 2005 whereas in US the raise has averaged around 5% and in China 8%.

THAT five persons of Bakani village died several years ago but their names were included in the muster roll as maintained by the government of labourers given employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the sarpanch got payment for this.

THAT private security sector has grown from Rs. 500 crore to Rs. 10,000 crore in the last five years.

THAT the members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Delhi have 60 hours working year and get over Rs. 40,000 per month.

THAT India has over 804 foreign pilots in 8 Airlines.

THAT MNCs in India employ 15% of Indian ITBPO workforce.

THAT IBM India is the fastest growing firm and only last year its workforce grew by 37% to touch 73,000 .

THAT Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not taken a single day off (except for his prostrate operation).

THAT the Employees' State Insurance Scheme providing social security to low paid employees have over one crore beneficiaries.

THAT the Govt. of Bihar in two years has recruited over two lakh teachers.

THAT over 2,50,000 people work in BPOs in Gurgaon (Haryana).

THAT with addition of about 400 aircrafts, India would require about 4,000 pilots, 3,000 engineers, a minimum of 8,000 cabin crew and about 1,00,000 support staff.

THAT India will be in need of 50,000 clinical research professionals in just two years as the global pharma industry rushes to test and launch its drugs in emerging markets.

THAT union tourism minister Ambika Soni has set a target of creating 2 lakh more jobs in the tourism sector by 2010 as tourism sector expects nearly 10 million tourists to come in by then.

THAT besides individual entrepreneurs, five major HR Services providers including Teamlease are employing over 1.7 lakh temporary staff.

THAT in an analysis done by the ASSOCHAM, it has been found that nearly 42 crore manhours are lost every month by the 70 lakh odd working population of Delhi and NCR who take the public transport to travel to work because of traffic congestion during the peak morning and evening hours.

THAT Food & Beverage sectors is the largest employer in the unorganised sector employing over 6.345 million workers.

THAT the Pension Scheme for mine workers will initially cover over 5,00,000 mine and cine workers.

THAT Bombay Stock Exchange will remain closed for as many as 120 days in 2008

THAT recognising India as a key source country for skilled workers, over 30,000 Indian workers have migrated to Canada for working.

THAT the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has cleared 804 foreign pilots to fly in India , the Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr. Praful Patel, told Parliament.

THAT out of 4.4 lakh technical graduates, nearly 23 lakh graduates and 3 lakh post graduates qualifying every year, a tenth of the general collegiates are suitable for employment.

THAT faced with skilled workers crunch, DLF Laing-O'Rourke is planning to bring over 20,000 carpenters and electricians from West Asia for its construction activities.

THAT in 2000-01, less than 100 executives of the listed companies were earning more than 50 lakh per annum whereas in 2005-06, the number has crossed 900.

THAT the staff strength of PSUs declined by 34,442 even as they recruited 11,404 , resulting in a net reduction of 23,038 jobs.

THAT private sector has created 2,32,180 new jobs, the previous year only 475 companies increased their headcount by 1,57, 422 in 2006- 07, an increase of 42 per cent over the 2005-06 figure of 1,10,470 .

THAT Reliance Industries is using 40,000 bluecollar workers.

THAT for bidi and cigarette manufacturing, India has over 3,00,000 workers.

THAT an employee of FCI has died while on hunger strike since over 32,000 employees were protesting direct payment system since they were receiving Rs. 4,000 per month whereas for the same work, the departmental workers were getting over Rs. 15,000 per month.

THAT according to Nasscom Mackinsey survey, by 2010 over 8.5 lakh ITES-BPO professionals would be in demand.

THAT Infosys is on the verge of completing its training facility in Mysore at the cost of Rs. 1,500 crore, which will be equipped to train 13,500 people in single seating.

THAT the Commerce Minister, Kamal Nath said that unless remedial measures are taken, due to strong rupee, job losses (in export sector) could be as high as 2 million.

THAT India produces 4,00,000 engineers a year but a Nasscom study found only one in four engineering graduates were employable.

THAT even after spending 12 years in academics to get Ph.D in Persian and Urdu from JNU after running a Dhaba, Photostat shop or a general store for living.

THAT attrition costs BPOs about Rs. 1,660 crore a year, half of it due to operational inefficiencies arising from higher recruitment costs, salary hikes and repeated training.