-Livemint.com This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment and unemployment for rural as well as urban areas. Earlier this week, India’s ministry of statistics and programme implementation released the annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the reference period July 2020 to June 2021. This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment...
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PM Narendra Modi directs recruitment of 10 lakh people on mission mode in 1.5 years
-PTI/ The Telegraph The government's decision comes amid the opposition's frequent criticism of it on the issue of unemployment New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked various government departments and ministries to undertake the recruitment of 10 lakh people on a "mission mode" in the next year and a half, his office said on Tuesday. The direction from Modi came following a review of the status of human resources in all government...
More »Fact check: Adityanath’s claim about Uttar Pradesh’s unemployment rate doesn’t add up -Factchecker team
-Scroll.in The state’s unemployment rate never touched double digits in 2017, and instead of a drop, data shows there has been a 29% rise during his tenure. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath, in a speech addressing the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on June 3, claimed that since the Bharatiya Janata Party government came into power in the state in 2017, the unemployment rate had fallen from 18% to 2.9%. He attributed the...
More »Neo-Liberalism and Anti-Inflationary Policy -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment. Of course the Federal Reserve Board of the US which sets the standard in this respect for all other central banks, claims...
More »Developmental Causes of Out-Migration from Bengal -Rayandev Sen
-Bengal Development Collective Migration has been an essential component of socio-economic and political change. People move away from their birthplace in search of a better livelihood, a safer neighbourhood, or a more inclusive society. Migration is a big indicator of the existing social and economic disparities between the place of origin and the migrant’s destination. As economic centres become centres for migrants, they gain access to cheaper labour, bolstering their own...
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