-Hindustan Times It is pertinent to realise that 34 out of 1,000 children born in the country die in the mother’s womb itself. Nine lakh children below the age of five die much before they can comprehend the meaning of independent India and approximately 19 crore people in the country are compelled to sleep on an empty stomach. The history of the nation won’t record the names of Shikha, Manasi or Parul...
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Solving the mystery of missing Employment data in the Indian economy -Himanshu
-Livemint.com The prime minister is partly right in the sense that the most authoritative data on Employment-unEmployment from the periodic NSSO were not available after 2011-12 In an interview given to Swarajya magazine earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented the lack of data on jobs in the country. This was in response to a question on why the economy is not creating jobs. The prime minister is partly right...
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 »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...
More »One crore jobs in last year: Here is how PM Modi built his case during speech in Lok Sabha
-The Indian Express To lend weight to his argument, he referred to Employment figures available in the system including EPF, NPS, formal and informal sector. He talked about job growth and Employment towards the end of his speech. New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that the government failed to create enough jobs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said over one crore jobs were created in the country over the past one year. The...
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