-IndiaSpend New Delhi: On July 27, 2018, Rajendra Birhor, a 40-year-old Adivasi, starved to death in Ramgarh, a district in eastern Jharkhand. He belonged to a “particularly vulnerable tribal group” (PVTG) and should have had access to at least two welfare measures that could have saved his life: A pension and a ration card. Like him, 13 others died of starvation in Jharkhand over the last 10 months, according to the latest...
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More than 4 lakhs posts in the Central govt. lying vacant, shows latest available data
Since jobs have shrunk due to the deployment of information technology in sectors such as banking, quotas won't guarantee employment, said Union Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari recently, according to a PTI news dated 5th August, 2018. But the truth is somewhat different from what Mr. Gadkari told journalists about falling jobs against the backdrop of demand for reservation by the Marathas. Let us see why this is so. The total number...
More »The Numbers Hide The Story -Lola Nayar
-Outlook Social security enrolment of workers is not a good measure of how many new jobs are created Employment data has always been a subject of debate in India, more so now that the surge in social security enrolments is being cited as evidence to press home that 41.26 lakh new jobs were created between September 2017 and April this year. The Central Statistics Office data earlier this month raises more questions...
More »EPFO payroll data shows 4.4 million jobs created in 9 months till May
-PTI EPFO’s latest data shows the new members enrolment in May is the highest so far in last eight month at 7,43,608 New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO’s payroll data suggests that as many as 4,474,859 jobs created during September 2017 to May this year. However, the retirement body lowered earlier estimate of new members enrolment by 9.57%, from 4,126,138 to to 3,731,251 for September 2017-April this year. According to the payroll data...
More »Jobs -- The Govt.'s Tangled Web -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Leaking EPFO enrolment numbers, and tall tales about trucks and buses, and doctors and engineers, marked PM Modi’s deceptive claims on jobs in his Lok Sabha speech. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when at first we start to deceive" wrote Sir Walter Scott two centuries ago. The Modi govt.’s attempt to create data on non-existent jobs confirms this truth. Since last year, an increasingly cornered govt. has been marshalling all...
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