Navigating unemployment challenges: Insights and strategies
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Navigating unemployment challenges: Insights and strategies

Hindustan Times  

Unemployment remains one of the most pervasive and multifaceted issues plaguing India's socio-economic landscape. Structural bottlenecks and informal economy dominance: India's economic structure, characterised by a large informal sector and bureaucratic red tape, stifles formal job creation. Flexible labour regulations can encourage formal employment, attract investment, and promote job creation, while ensuring adequate social protection for workers. Promoting export-oriented industries and global integration: Encouraging export-oriented industries through export promotion schemes, trade facilitation measures, and skill development initiatives can bolster manufacturing activity and create job opportunities. By implementing targeted interventions such as education reforms, entrepreneurship promotion, infrastructure development, and labour market reforms, India can unlock its vast potential and chart a path towards prosperity for all its citizens.

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Economic Survey flags impact of AI on workers, puts onus on pvt sector to create jobs
5 months ago

Economic Survey flags impact of AI on workers, puts onus on pvt sector to create jobs

Live Mint  

“…it is in the enlightened self-interest of the Indian corporate sector, swimming in excess profits, to take its responsibility to create jobs seriously,” the Economic Survey said The Economic Survey on Monday highlighted the adverse impact that artificial intelligence can cast on Inda’s working class which in turn can add to the barriers to sustained growth for the Indian economy. …

Combating Unemployment through Evolving Tech Skill Sets - News18
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Combating Unemployment through Evolving Tech Skill Sets - News18

News 18  

Amidst rapidly evolving technologies to stay globally competitive, the labour-intensive manufacturing sector has a significant opportunity to address the complex issue of unemployment in the country. We must bring our skill development infrastructure up to global standards by creating National Occupation Standards and Qualification Packs that meet international requirements for various job roles. Revisit the skill gap The labour force …

Labour and its discontents
1 year, 2 months ago

Labour and its discontents

Hindustan Times  

There is a widespread consensus that employment generation is India’s central economic challenge. At one level, it can be argued that failure to reduce the employment share of agriculture is India’s biggest labour market challenge. At another, it can also be argued that the quality of non-agricultural jobs, caste-based inequalities in labour markets and a big gender gap in employment …

The era of an unemployed India
2 years, 8 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 …

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