Leaked NSSO report revives jobs debate, puts BJP on the back foot
5 years, 11 months ago

Leaked NSSO report revives jobs debate, puts BJP on the back foot

Live Mint  

Just months ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections, the growing debate over jobs is back to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party -led National Democratic Alliance. The report echoed the opposition’s claim that the government has failed to create enough jobs and that the implementation of demonetization in November 2017 hit the economy as well as employment prospects. At a press conference in its party headquarters on Thursday, former Union minister Anand Sharma accused the government of “hiding” the data which showed that “demonetization dealt a blow to the unorganized sector and jobs”. The EPFO data shows people coming into the formal sector from the informal sector but it does not get captured in the job calculation data,” said Gopal Krishna Agarwal, BJP’s national spokesperson on economic issues.

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Job Creation Seems Better Than Before but What About Quality and Sustainability?
5 months, 1 week ago

Job Creation Seems Better Than Before but What About Quality and Sustainability?

The Quint  

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Why disclosing the withheld jobs report could improve GDP numbers too
5 years, 8 months ago

Why disclosing the withheld jobs report could improve GDP numbers too

Live Mint  

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Political bickering over unemployment ignores real crisis; lack of jobs and counter-measures should be focus, not barbs
5 years, 11 months ago

Political bickering over unemployment ignores real crisis; lack of jobs and counter-measures should be focus, not barbs

Firstpost  

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2019 Budget Reactions: New report will show ‘substantial increase in jobs’, says PM Modi’s economic advisor Bibek Debroy
5 years, 11 months ago

2019 Budget Reactions: New report will show ‘substantial increase in jobs’, says PM Modi’s economic advisor Bibek Debroy

Hindustan Times  

The Narendra Modi-led government is pushing self-employment and entrepreneurship through its programmes, chairperson of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Bibek Debroy has said, amid a row over a leaked report that showed unemployment had surged to the highest in four decades. The Narendra Modi-led government is pushing self-employment and entrepreneurship through its programmes, chairperson of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council …

Leaked NSSO report on unemployment not finalised and verified, not correct to use it as final: NITI Aayog
5 years, 11 months ago

Leaked NSSO report on unemployment not finalised and verified, not correct to use it as final: NITI Aayog

Op India  

The NITI Ayog has said that the “leaked” National Sample Survey of Office report which showed the unemployment rate during July 2017-June 2018 at 6.1 percent, a 45-year high, is not verified. Hours after the NSSO report came out in media, the NITI Aayog clarified that it was a draft report which is still being processed and that the data …

Congress, BJP drag Fuhrer, Mussolini into jobs debate
5 years, 11 months ago

Congress, BJP drag Fuhrer, Mussolini into jobs debate

Live Mint  

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