-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A little over 6% of India's labour force was unemployed in 2017-18, the latest year for which government released data on Friday. The unemployment rate is identical to the rate mentioned in a report leaked in January this year, which had showed unemployment to be at a 45-year high. The leaked report had triggered a major controversy, with the opposition parties slamming the government for its...
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FY18 unemployment level is high but not comparable with previous surveys: NSO -Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com * NSO says the change in criteria from monthly per capita expenditure to education levels has direct implications on the comparability of the results * Official data suggests unemployment rate rose to 45-year high of 6.1% in FY18 A day after the Narendra Modi government took oath of office for its second term, the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday formally released the leaked annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which showed...
More »Unemployment rate at 6.1% in 2017-18, says labour force survey which was withheld earlier
-The Indian Express The PLFS, however, said “compared to the quinquennial rounds, in 2017-18 the unemployment rates in both usual status (ps+ss) and CWS were higher for both males and females”, but added that the figures have to be read with explanatory note for comparability. New Delhi: The country’s unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report which was withheld earlier and released...
More »Is 'Right to Work' More Important Than 'Minimum Income Guarantee'? -Dunu Roy
-TheWire.in Various remedies are being suggested to tackle the growing rate of unemployment, but are they in tandem with the needs of the workers? Two issues were concealed under the din of elections. The first is the depth of the agrarian crisis with rising costs, falling prices and diminishing livelihoods. The second is the declining rate of employment in urban India, even within the informal sector, and the tumult among the youth...
More »50 lakh people lost job opportunities after demonetisation: study
-The Hindu The 'State of Working India' report, published by Azim Premji University, was released on Tuesday Since the November 8, 2016 demonetisation, at least five million people lost opportunities to work across the country, while the overall unemployment rate doubled between 2011 and 2018 to 6%, says a 'State of Working India' (SWI) report published by the Centre for Sustainable Employment (CSE) of the Azim Premji University (APU) that was released...
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