-Hindustan Times The murder of a woman in Alwar points to India’s most shockingly under-reported story on why nearly 200 lakh women have quit Jobs All Usha Devi wanted was to give her kids a good education. The wife of a construction worker knew that her husband’s income was not enough to educate her children, Tanuja, 15, and Dheeraj, 10, and, so, she took a job at a plastic factory. Not everyone was...
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What does corporate data tell us about job growth in India? -Tadit Kundu and Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint.com Corporate job growth has recovered over the past couple of years but the pace of job creation remains lacklustre The promise of creating new Jobs helped Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win a historic victory in the 2014 general elections. With a year left for the next general elections, Modi and his government find themselves under fire from opponents for what they perceive to be a failure to...
More »Economist Paul Krugman warns India of mass unemployment if manufacturing sector does not grow
-Scroll.in The Nobel laureate noted that the country does not yet have the Jobs essential to sustain the projected growth in demography. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on Saturday warned that India may end up with mass unemployment if its manufacturing sector does not grow, News18 reported. The American economist was speaking at an event that the news channel had organised. “As the world’s economies took off because of growth in the manufacturing...
More »New metric for Jobs growth to include informal economy -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com The govt will count Jobs created in establishments deploying less than 10 people, which essentially means that shops run by one owner and one employee too will be counted as employment generation New Delhi: Expanding the scope of job creation in the country, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has now decided to start counting Jobs created in the non-farm informal sector. The government has asked labour bureau under the Union labour...
More »'Manifold rise in suicide due to unemployment in Madhya Pradesh' -Desh Deep
-The Times of India BHOPAL: There has been an almost 2000% rise in the cases of suicide due to unemployment in Madhya Pradesh between 2005 and 2015. In 2005, the number of people committing suicide with unemployment as a reason was 29 which went up to 579 in 2015, said Akshay Hunka convener of Berozgar Sena quoting the figures of the National Crime Record Bureau(NCRB). The Sena was constituted recently to highlight...
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