Unemployment biggest worry of urban Indians: Survey
5 years ago

Unemployment biggest worry of urban Indians: Survey

India TV News  

Concerns about joblessness is on the rise in India as a new survey has revealed that unemployment is what worries 46 per cent of urban Indians the most. The results revealed that in November at least three per cent more urban Indians were worried about unemployment than those in October, according to the latest report of the "What Worries the World" survey by market research firm Ipsos. "Government will need to put a greater emphasis on job creation as lack of jobs continues to bother urban Indians, as more youngsters keep getting added to the job market. Also, tighter controls are needed to address other niggling issues," Parijat Chakraborty, Country Service Line Leader, Public Affairs & Corporate Reputation, Ipsos India, said in a statement.

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Little change in India’s unemployment rate in urban areas: PLFS data
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Little change in India’s unemployment rate in urban areas: PLFS data

Hindustan Times  

India’s unemployment rate in urban areas during July-Sept 2024 stood at 6.4%, compared to 6.6% in the same period last year, according to the government’s quarterly periodic labour force survey released on Monday. According to the government’s Economic Survey 2023-24, India needs to create 7.85 million non-farm jobs every year until 2030 to absorb its growing labour force. The labour …

Urban labour market shows improvement as unemployment declines in September quarter
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Urban labour market shows improvement as unemployment declines in September quarter

Live Mint  

India's urban labour market demonstrated steady gains in July-September, with rising workforce participation and a slight dip in unemployment, according to recent data. Urban unemployment rate, a key indicator of joblessness, fell to 6.4% in July-September, down from 6.6% a year prior, as per data from the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation on Monday. The Labour Force Participation Rate …

Maharashtra Polls: Mahayuti Vs Maha Vikas Aghadi – Who is Promising More Jobs?
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Maharashtra Polls: Mahayuti Vs Maha Vikas Aghadi – Who is Promising More Jobs?

The Quint  

As Maharashtra readies to vote representatives to its 288-member Legislative Assembly on 20 November, a trend is becoming increasingly clear — that unemployment is a critical issue in the state this election. And now that the BJP-led Mahayuti as well as the Maha Vikas Aghadi have released their respective manifestos, both political blocs seem to have acknowledged joblessness in the …

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment
2 months, 1 week ago

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment

The Hindu  

Abhishek is just 25 years old. Precarious nature of work in urban India In recent decades, there have been fundamental shifts in India’s urban workforce and city development. Moreover, 92% of the 61 million jobs created after the economic liberalisation of 1991 were informal, indicating the precarious state of employment in India’s labour market. Structural imbalances favour organisations that control …

Centre questions Citigroup’s report on employment in India
6 months ago

Centre questions Citigroup’s report on employment in India

The Hindu  

The Union Labour Ministry questioned the findings of a report prepared by the United States-based banking giant Citigroup and said the group failed to account for the “comprehensive and positive employment data” available from official sources such as the Periodic Labour Force Survey and the Reserve Bank of India’s capital, labour, energy, material and services data. The Citigroup’s report had …

Urban unemployment rate at 6.7% in quarter ending March 2024 : NSSO data
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Urban unemployment rate at 6.7% in quarter ending March 2024 : NSSO data

Hindustan Times  

India’s urban unemployment rate in the quarter ended March 2024 was 6.7%, according to data released by the National Sample Survey Office on Wednesday. On a sequential basis – quarter on quarter – the unemployment rate increased between quarters ended December 2023 and March 2024 for the first time after the quarter ended June 2021. The 6.7% urban unemployment rate …

Letters to The Editor — April 12, 2024
9 months ago

Letters to The Editor — April 12, 2024

The Hindu  

Survey pre-poll findings The Hindu-CSDS-Lokniti Pre-poll Survey 2024 findings, that “jobs, inflation” are the key issues in the Lok Sabha elections are hardly surprising. However, what is surprising is that the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be the least concerned about such issues and has been talking only in terms of ‘400 seats’ and ‘an action programme for the first …

How to create more jobs for India’s educated youth | In Focus podcast
9 months, 1 week ago

How to create more jobs for India’s educated youth | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The India Employment Report 2024, released recently by the International Labour Organisation, paints a grim picture. The news is particularly bad on two critical counts: joblessness is particularly high among the youth, and its worse for the educated youth. According to the report, India’s youth account for 83% of the unemployed workforce, with the share of the educated youth among …

Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report

The Hindu  

India’s youth account for almost 83% of the unemployed workforce and the share of youngsters with secondary or higher education in the total unemployed youth has almost doubled from 35.2% in 2000 to 65.7% in 2022, as per the India Employment Report 2024 released by the International Labour Organisation and the Institute of Human Development here on Tuesday. Paradoxical improvements …

Unemployment rate in urban areas falls to 6.50 per cent in Q3
11 months ago

Unemployment rate in urban areas falls to 6.50 per cent in Q3

India TV News  

The unemployment rate in urban areas of India for individuals aged 15 years and above dropped to 6.5 per cent during October–December 2023, down from 7.2 per cent in the same period last year, according to government data released on Monday. The Periodic Labour Force Survey, initiated in April 2017 for more frequent labour force data, reported that the unemployment …

Hiring in India: 37% employers planning to increase staff strength by 2024 March
1 year, 1 month ago

Hiring in India: 37% employers planning to increase staff strength by 2024 March

Live Mint  

India has one of the strongest hiring sentiments in the world over the next three months, with 37 percent of businesses planning to increase their staff levels in response to strong domestic demand, a report has stated. As per the survey, India and the Netherlands reported strongest net employment outlooks at 37 percent, followed by Costa Rica and the US …

Himachal Pradesh Tops Unemployment Chart in July-Sept: Labour Survey
1 year, 1 month ago

Himachal Pradesh Tops Unemployment Chart in July-Sept: Labour Survey

News 18  

Himachal Pradesh has witnessed the highest overall unemployment rate of 33.9 per cent, followed by Rajasthan at 30.2 per cent, among the age group of 15 to 29 years in cities during July-September 2023, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey. The PLFS data of the National Sample Survey Office also revealed that unemployment among the 15-29 age group in …

The week in 5 charts | Uttarkashi tunnel rescue, India’s GDP increases in Q2, Unemployment rate dips, and more
1 year, 1 month ago

The week in 5 charts | Uttarkashi tunnel rescue, India’s GDP increases in Q2, Unemployment rate dips, and more

The Hindu  

After 17-days, trapped workers rescued from the Uttarkashi tunnel On November 12, when portions of the Silkyara-Dandalgaon under-construction tunnel on the Brahmkhal-Yamunotri highway collapsed, 41 workers were trapped with no way out. GDP surges 7.6% in Q2, goes past RBI forecast India’s Gross Domestic Product grew at a higher-than-expected 7.6% in the July to September 2023 quarter, as per initial …

India's unemployment rate hits 6-year low at 3.2% in latest government data
1 year, 3 months ago

India's unemployment rate hits 6-year low at 3.2% in latest government data

India TV News  

India's unemployment rate for individuals aged 15 and above has reached its lowest point in six years, registering at 3.2% during the period from July 2022 to June 2023, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2022-2023 released by the National Sample Survey Office. Rise in labour force participation The Labour Force Participation Rate in usual status for …

Unemployment rate dips in India
1 year, 5 months ago

Unemployment rate dips in India

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: India’s overall unemployment rate fell in July as rural areas saw increased demand for agriculture labour with the onset of monsoon rains. Rural unemployment rate fell to 7.89%, from 8.73% in June, while urban unemployment rate ticked up, to 8.06% from 7.87% in the same period. While the agriculture sector saw activity with improved rains, demand for labour …

State’s urban population and unemployment rate, both see an increase
1 year, 10 months ago

State’s urban population and unemployment rate, both see an increase

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The urban population in Maharashtra is increasing and at the same time, the unemployment rate in these areas has also gone up. The survey also shows that unemployment rate in urban areas of Maharashtra post-Covid has increased from 4.4 % in 2019-20 to 6.5 % in 2020-21. During this period all India unemployment rate in urban area reduced marginally …

Optimism is back but inflation casts a shadow
1 year, 10 months ago

Optimism is back but inflation casts a shadow

Live Mint  

The year 2022 was the first one with a semblance of normalcy after the covid-19 pandemic. The share of respondents who see a drop in earnings in the coming year stood in single digits for the first time since 2020. However, note that around 54% of respondents still find a job-hunt “difficult"—a reminder that India’s jobs crisis is far from …

Despite India's economic growth, few jobs and meagre pay for urban youth
1 year, 11 months ago

Despite India's economic growth, few jobs and meagre pay for urban youth

The Hindu  

Ravi Verma, hired by an electrical parts manufacturing firm early last year as India’s economy surged, was fired in November when the company lost several export orders. “I face a risk of loan default if I don’t get a job soon.” The urban unemployment rate swelled to 10.1% in December, although the total number of jobs in India touched a …

Urban Indians most worried about unemployment, says survey
2 years ago

Urban Indians most worried about unemployment, says survey

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: Urban Indians were most worried about unemployment, followed by financial and political corruption, crime and violence, inflation, poverty and social inequality, and climate change in December, according to findings of a survey. Globally, on the other hand, people were most worried about inflation, poverty and social inequality, unemployment and financial and political corruption, according to the Ipsos What …

Year in Review | Indian economy amid global headwinds
2 years ago

Year in Review | Indian economy amid global headwinds

The Hindu  

Multiple headwinds at varied points of time impacted the Indian economy’s thorough economic revival in the calendar year 2022. “India’s growth rates in real terms of 9.7% in the first half of this year is well above the trend in other countries and is happening amid tightening global financial conditions and the commodity price shock since the Ukraine invasion by …

India's unemployment rate dips to 7.2 per cent in second quarter from 9.8
2 years, 1 month ago

India's unemployment rate dips to 7.2 per cent in second quarter from 9.8

India TV News  

India unemployment rate 2022 : The unemployment rate, defined as percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force in the country above the age of 15 years in urban areas eased to 7.2 during the second quarter of 2022-23 from 9.8 in the year-ago period, according to data of National Statistical Office's 16th Periodic Labour Force Survey. The data had …

India's unemployment rate drops to 6.43% in September: CMIE
2 years, 3 months ago

India's unemployment rate drops to 6.43% in September: CMIE

The Hindu  

India's unemployment rate has drastically dropped to 6.43% in September due to an increase in labour participation in the rural and urban areas, according to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. "In September, the unemployment rate has fallen significantly with an increase in labour participation in both urban and rural areas," CMIE managing director Mahesh Vyas told PTI …

India’s unemployment rate surges to 1-year high of 8.3% in August: CMIE
2 years, 4 months ago

India’s unemployment rate surges to 1-year high of 8.3% in August: CMIE

Live Mint  

India's unemployment rate increased to a one-year high of 8.3 per cent in August as employment sequentially fell by 2 million to 394.6 million, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data said. "The urban unemployment rate is usually higher at about 8 per cent than the rural unemployment rate, which is usually around 7 per cent. In August the urban …

India’s unemployment rate plunges to 7.6% in April-June 2022: NSO survey
2 years, 4 months ago

India’s unemployment rate plunges to 7.6% in April-June 2022: NSO survey

Live Mint  

The unemployment rate in India for people aged 15 years and above in urban areas declined to 7.6 per cent during April-June 2022 from 12.6 per cent a year ago, the National Statistical Office said on 31 August. In January-March 2022, the unemployment rate in India for persons aged 15 years and above was 8.2 per cent in urban areas, …

India@75 survey: Indians favour policy push for rural development, govt jobs
2 years, 5 months ago

India@75 survey: Indians favour policy push for rural development, govt jobs

Live Mint  

How should India be governed? Around 53% of urban Indians would prefer a tax cut over cash transfers for the poor; 58% would like the government to be the job-giver compared to 42% wanting it to be an enabler of private sector jobs. View Full Image India's idea of welfare The survey covered 10,271 respondents across 204 cities and towns. …

At 6.80%, unemployment rate in India lowest in 6 months: Report
2 years, 5 months ago

At 6.80%, unemployment rate in India lowest in 6 months: Report

Hindustan Times  

The overall unemployment rate eased to 6.80% in July, a 1 per cent decline compared to June, the lowest since 6.56% in January, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a private organisation reported on Monday. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} In rural India, the unemployment rate fell to 6.14% in July against 8.03% in the previous month. The data for urban areas …

At 6.80%, unemployment rate in India lowest in 6 months: Report
2 years, 5 months ago

At 6.80%, unemployment rate in India lowest in 6 months: Report

Hindustan Times  

The overall unemployment rate eased to 6.80% in July, a 1 per cent decline compared to June, the lowest since 6.56% in January, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a private organisation reported on Monday. In rural India, the unemployment rate fell to 6.14% in July against 8.03% in the previous month. The data for urban areas suggests that unemployment rose …

Unemployment crisis in India is an invisible epidemic
2 years, 5 months ago

Unemployment crisis in India is an invisible epidemic

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 24, 2022 18:00 IST Shalini Ghosh runs a fairly popular boutique chain selling ethnic garments and gift items from West Bengal. Going by the CMIE statistics, one State that has witnessed a high level of unemployment among graduates is Bihar, with 34.2 per cent of its graduate workforce without a job. Speaking to Frontline, Jawhar Sircar, a …

Create more jobs, revamp employment policy
2 years, 6 months ago

Create more jobs, revamp employment policy

The Hindu  

The Government of India has recently announced its plan to create 10 lakh government jobs in the next 18 months. The share of contract workers in total government employment has been increasing rapidly in recent years — from 11.11 lakh in 2017 to 13.25 lakh in 2020 and to 24.31 lakh in 2021. The urban programme should include: basic urban …

Waiting for jobs: The Hindu Editorial on the Narendra Modi government’s plan to recruit 10 lakh personnel in 18 months
2 years, 6 months ago

Waiting for jobs: The Hindu Editorial on the Narendra Modi government’s plan to recruit 10 lakh personnel in 18 months

The Hindu  

For a nation that has had a significant demographic dividend — the working age population is much larger than the non-working age sections — finding productive employment for its youth was to be an imperative for India. Yet, in the last few years, unemployment has remained a major concern — the leaked Periodic Labour Force Survey in 2018 revealed that …

Looking beyond the joblessness number
2 years, 6 months ago

Looking beyond the joblessness number

Hindustan Times  

Unemployment rates are often looked at as the ultimate measure of a country’s ability to create employment. While they are indeed an important metric as far as the labour market is concerned, there is a need to look beyond the headline unemployment number, especially in the case of emerging market economies such as India. The 2020-21 PLFS report – it …

TMSEp194: Job announcement, food delivery apps, markets, economy categories
2 years, 7 months ago

TMSEp194: Job announcement, food delivery apps, markets, economy categories

Business Standard  

Amid fears that India’s demographic dividend may turn into a demographic threat after years of high unemployment rates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced to recruit 10 lakh people in different Central government ministries and departments in the next 18 months. On Monday, it asked food business operators like Zomato and Swiggy to submit a proposal on improving their …

What forced PM Modi's jobs push now
2 years, 7 months ago

What forced PM Modi's jobs push now

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reviewed the status of human resources in all central government ministries and departments and ordered the recruitment of 10 lakh people in a mission mode in the next 18 months,” the PM's Office said in a tweet on Tuesday. — PMO India June 14, 2022 Tuesday’s tweet from the PMO follows protests by frustrated job …

Joblessness on the rise in India
2 years, 8 months ago

Joblessness on the rise in India

The Hindu  

After many years of refusing to recognise there is a jobs crisis in India, the government of India, faced with relentless data to the contrary, has now resorted to misinformation. As compared to the 8% per annum GDP growth in the period 2004-14, and 7.5 million new non-farm jobs created each year over 2005 to 2012, the number of new …

'Factually incorrect': Centre rubbishes reports of Indians losing hope for work
2 years, 8 months ago

'Factually incorrect': Centre rubbishes reports of Indians losing hope for work

India TV News  

Highlights Labour force and workforce in the country increased during 2017-18 to 2019-20, govt said There has been an increase in the female labour force, the govt further said Employment is the primary concern of the Government of India, it said Ministry of Labour and Employment on Tuesday said that reports stating half of the working-age population has lost hope …

The era of an unemployed India
2 years, 9 months ago

The era of an unemployed India

The Hindu  

Reports on and the visuals of the recent agitations by railway job applicants reveal a widespread problem of massive job insecurity among India’s youth. One such index is the downward pressure unleashed by the influx of overqualified youth aspiring for middle and lower rung government jobs, which, despite their modest pay, are highly coveted given the greater job security ascribed …

Whither unemployment benefits
2 years, 9 months ago

Whither unemployment benefits

The Hindu  

Even before COVID-19, the unemployment rate touched a peak in 2017-18 at 6.1%. As per the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy, the average urban unemployment rate remained higher at 9.04% in 2021 and above 7% in January-February 2022. However, under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, the Rajiv Gandhi Shramik Kalyan Yojana provides unemployment allowance to involuntarily unemployed insured persons …

India's unemployment rate drops to 6.57% in Jan, lowest since March 2021: CMIE
2 years, 11 months ago

India's unemployment rate drops to 6.57% in Jan, lowest since March 2021: CMIE

India Today  

India's unemployment rate has fallen to 6.57 per cent in January, which is the lowest since March 2021, as the country gradually recovers with the easing of restrictions following a decline in Omicron cases, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. In December, the unemployment rate stood at 7.91 per cent, with urban at 9.30 per cent and rural …

Explained: How India's growing job crisis frustrates its youth
2 years, 11 months ago

Explained: How India's growing job crisis frustrates its youth

India Today  

Srijan Upadhyay supplied fried snacks to small eateries and roadside stalls in the poor eastern Indian state of Bihar before Covid-19 lockdowns forced most of his customers to close down, many without paying what they owed him. Read | The Great Resignation: Why are so many people quitting jobs ‘NOT ENOUGH JOBS FOR US’ "There are not enough jobs for …

Unemployment rate hits 4-month high in December amid Covid surge
3 years ago

Unemployment rate hits 4-month high in December amid Covid surge

India Today  

India's unemployment rate hit a four-month high in December, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy showed on Monday. The unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in December from 7.0% in November, its highest since 8.3% in August. Read | GDP at record high but unemployment continues to rise Urban unemployment rate rose to 9.3% in December from 8.2% in …

Unemployment rate rises sharply in rural areas: CMIE data
3 years, 5 months ago

Unemployment rate rises sharply in rural areas: CMIE data

India Today  

The unemployment rate has spiked in rural areas across the country, rising from 6.75 per cent in the week ended July 25, according to fresh data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. Urban unemployment rose to 8.01 per cent in the week ended July 25, rising marginally from 7.94 per cent a week ago. Read | Urban unemployment touched …

Urban unemployment touched 21% in April-June quarter last year: Centre
3 years, 5 months ago

Urban unemployment touched 21% in April-June quarter last year: Centre

India Today  

Unemployment rate touched 20.8 per cent in urban India in the April-June 2020 quarter, Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav told Parliament on Monday. "As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey quarterly bulletin April-June 2020, the quarterly unemployment rate, as per Current Weekly Status in urban areas for persons of age 15 years and above in the country to the extent …

Indians prefer job guarantee over everything else. This is the top reason
3 years, 6 months ago

Indians prefer job guarantee over everything else. This is the top reason

Live Mint  

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by the London School of Economics. An overwhelming 82% of respondents surveyed for the report ‘City of dreams no more, a year on: worklessness and active labour market policies in urban …

Unemployment rate rises as Covid-19 returns to haunt Indian economy
3 years, 9 months ago

Unemployment rate rises as Covid-19 returns to haunt Indian economy

India Today  

Fresh restrictions imposed in different parts of the country due to the second Covid-19 wave could lead to job losses, similar to what was witnessed in 2020. The unemployment rate touched 8.6 per cent for the week ending April 11, from just 6.7 per cent two weeks ago, according to fresh data released by CMIE. Read | Covid-19: Over 9 …

18 million Indians will switch careers by 2030 due to covid-19
3 years, 10 months ago

18 million Indians will switch careers by 2030 due to covid-19

Live Mint  

The pandemic has changed our relationship with work irrevocably—we know this but a new study estimated that 18 million workers in India will change their occupation in the next decade, all because of the novel coronavirus. Worldwide, about 100 million workers may need to shift from their current occupation in the next decade due to the impact of covid-19, states …

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs
3 years, 10 months ago

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs

The Economist  

Listen to this story. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a local research firm, put the share of urban women in or looking for work at just 7% in November. Their answers to questions like “Should men have more right to a job than women?” are more egalitarian than poll responses in Indonesia, where fully 53% of women pursue work …

India’s urban poor finding it hard to bounce back from job crisis
4 years ago

India’s urban poor finding it hard to bounce back from job crisis

Live Mint  

Over the past few months, several high-frequency indicators have suggested a pick-up in economic activity across the country. But data from the latest round of the YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey conducted online in October and November suggests that the job market is yet to recover from the pandemic shock. But older workers who lost their jobs may find it more difficult …

India's unemployment rate rises to 6.98%: CMIE
4 years, 2 months ago

India's unemployment rate rises to 6.98%: CMIE

India Today  

India has recorded a spike in its unemployment rate in both urban and rural areas in the month of October, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. In October, India's unemployment rate stood at 6.98 per cent. The data shows a big jump in unemployment in the month of October as it stood at 6.90 per cent, an increase …

India's jobless growth, coronavirus impact and rising unemployment
4 years, 4 months ago

India's jobless growth, coronavirus impact and rising unemployment

India Today  

When India’s growth was blooming in 2016-17, it earned the tag of the fastest-growing major economy in the world. READ | Welcome to Jobless Growth: Why India is facing an unemployment crisis They warned that the rate of jobless growth could severely impact India’s economy which depends heavily on the middle class population, engaged primarily in salaried jobs and entrepreneurship. …

India’s Gen Z risks getting left out of formal jobs: London School of Economics study
4 years, 4 months ago

India’s Gen Z risks getting left out of formal jobs: London School of Economics study

Live Mint  

India has been struggling with an unemployment problem and the coronavirus pandemic is making it even more difficult for its youngest workers to earn a decent living, shows an analysis by the London School of Economics. Workers in cities in the age group of 18 to 25 years were already much less likely to be in formal jobs and more …

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