• Dr. Ranjit Kumar Ghosh

Abstract The basic problem of any agro-based area economy is the existence of chronic underemployment rather than unemployment. We see elsewhere in our several studies that a remarkable portion of our rural employable labour force, with a positive attitude to work, is not in a position to use their labour power intensively throughout the agricultural year. We have also observed that a large proportion of gainfully employed adults remain unemployed in some seasons of the agricultural year, while at the same time we have also observed that there is an acute shortage of labour in the periods of peak agricultural activities in a complete crop year. This type of dichotomy motivates some sort of migration of adult labour force from our area economy to the area economies of the other states in our country. We have seen that a considerable amount of employable adults who left their birthplace just to find gainful employment in other states like Delhi, Karnataka and Punjab and have returned to their homestead after spending some periods with a bitter work experience. But they again try to get ready to go to those places as because they have failed to find any productive job at their own places of residence throughout the year. This tradition is going on since the late 80s with a tragedian fact that the same decade had been experienced some sort of better growth rate as compared to the other decades of our national planning era.

Key Words: Agro-based, chronic, underemployment, dichotomy

"LABOUR USE INTENSITY AND PLANNING: A Case Study in Rural Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.138-143, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812420.pdf

"LABOUR USE INTENSITY AND PLANNING: A Case Study in Rural Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp138-143, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812420.pdf