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Urban unemployment up, rural picture better -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph

Seasonal sowing, MGNREGA boost prospects

The grim employment scenario in urban India got aggravated while the rural sector showed some improvement in the last week of May, with researchers attributing the uptick in the villages to seasonal sowing activities and increase in work under the MGNREGA while calling the overall condition critical.

Data released by private research group Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) show that the unemployment rate for the week ending on May 31 for the country had declined to 20.19 per cent from 24.34 per cent the week before. In urban areas, the unemployment rate increased to 25.14 per cent from 22.72 per cent. In rural areas, it had fallen to 17.92 per cent from 25.09 per cent.

As per the CMIE data, the nationwide unemployment rate is the lowest since the lockdown started on March 25. The week ending on March 22 had recorded a cumulative unemployment rate of 8.41 per cent - 8.66 per cent in urban areas and 8.29 per cent in rural India.

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