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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests -Nikhil Rampal

India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests -Nikhil Rampal

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published Published on Aug 16, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2022

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India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker.

New Delhi: There’s much to lament in India’s post-Covid job market, where recovery has been painfully slow. However, government data suggests that when it comes to the salaried sector, the participation of religious minorities — Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians, in that order — has been most gravely affected.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) — covering the period from July 2020 to June 2021 and released earlier this year — at least partly captures the impact of lockdowns, and their immediate aftermath, on salaried jobs across sectors.

The survey defines “regular/salaried employees” as “persons who worked in others’ farm or non-farm enterprises (both household and non-household)” and, in return, received salary or wages on a regular basis (i.e. not on the basis of daily or periodic renewal of work contracts). This category includes paid apprentices, both full-time and part-time.

According to the data, during 2020-21, the share of India’s salaried class in the workforce shrank by almost 2 percentage points. In 2019-20, about 23 per cent of the workforce earned a regular salary or wage, but in 2020-21, only 21 per cent did.

But to get a better idea of the effect of lockdowns, older data is instructive.

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ThePrint.in, 16 August, 2022, https://theprint.in/india/indias-salaried-class-shrank-during-covid-muslims-hit-hardest-govt-data-suggests/1077850/


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