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Govt's flip-flop on jobs data continues, impacts credibility -Prashant K Nanda

-Livemint.com The ministry of statistics claims that the payroll data for the most recent months are provisional and again, data for every month is being revised New Delhi: The government’s latest payroll data sourced from the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) points towards the fact that earlier growth numbers may have been exaggerated. In April, when the centre first released the jobs data, it said that between September 2017 and February 2018, India...

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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...

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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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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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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...

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