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Bihar Elections: Why Jobs Have Become the Key Issue -Subodh Varma

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Double digit jobless rate, crashing women’s employment and absolute fall in number of employed have left people in th state devastated – and furious.

Unemployment, it is often said, is death by a thousand cuts. It pushes families into hunger, snatches away children’s education, prevents medical care, and propels people into debt. And, if you are already poor and disadvantaged and living on the edge, unemployment is like a death sentence.

A few days ago, new monthly unemployment estimates were released by Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy or CMIE. Bihar’s jobless rate was nearly 10% in October 2020. It’s the 21st consecutive month of double-digit unemployment rate. [See chart below] That’s an unbearable burden that the people of Bihar have been shouldering and it is this that is making them see the ongoing election as a chance to change course, set things right (hopefully) and step back from an abyss they are staring into.

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