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Youth unemployment in India at 10.2%, says Union Labour minister
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Youth unemployment in India at 10.2%, says Union Labour minister

India Today  

The unemployment rate for youth of India aged 15–29 years in 2023-24 is at 10.2% said Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje, citing statistics in the Lok Sabha in response to a question on November 25, 2024. The reply also said that the youth unemployment rates in India were lower than global levels. A report by …

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Shift in ground in the Indian labour market
1 month ago

Shift in ground in the Indian labour market

Hindustan Times  

India’s unemployment rate has been falling for a long time now. The urban unemployment rate fell to its lowest ever level of 6.4% in this quarter despite a rise in the labour force participation rate. Is the Indian labour market finally turning a corner not just in quantitative but also qualitative terms? The latest PLFS report gives us the first …

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

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Annual survey of industries shows growth in manufacturing sector
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Annual survey of industries shows growth in manufacturing sector

The Hindu  

India’s industrial sector is growing at a fast pace, said NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. 2022-23 witnessed a growth in industrial sector for majority of the important economic parameters like invested capital, input, output, GVA, employment and wages and even surpassed the pre-pandemic level in absolute value terms. When asked about the recent Periodic Labour Force Survey results that cited stagnation …

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FY24 unemployment rate unchanged at 3.2%
2 months, 4 weeks ago

FY24 unemployment rate unchanged at 3.2%

Hindustan Times  

India’s annual unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.2% in 2023-24, mirroring the previous year’s figure, despite an increase in the number of people working or looking for a job, according to the latest annual Periodic Labour Force Survey report released on Monday. FY24 unemployment rate unchanged at 3.2% {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} This marks the first time the headline unemployment …

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Unemployment in Haryana: Over 45,000 grads, post graduates apply for sweeper’s job
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Unemployment in Haryana: Over 45,000 grads, post graduates apply for sweeper’s job

Hindustan Times  

Unable to find jobs, around 46,102 graduates and post graduates in Haryana have applied for the jobs of contractual sweepers hired by Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam, the state-owned corporation established for providing contractual manpower. The data shows that about 1,17,144 individuals having studied till Class 12 have also applied for the sweeper’s job. Desperation, financial distress drive youth to apply …

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Over 46k grads, post graduates apply for sanitation staff post
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Over 46k grads, post graduates apply for sanitation staff post

Hindustan Times  

More than 46,000 graduates and postgraduates in Haryana have, over the past four months, applied for contractual sanitation worker positions with the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam, shows data from the state agency. Officials said there was little possibility people could have applied for the job mistakenly, pointing out that the job description “clearly outlined the work that was expected of …

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Were eight crore new jobs created in three years?
4 months ago

Were eight crore new jobs created in three years?

The Hindu  

Employment, or the lack of it, has been a major issue of debate among economists and policy makers in India in recent years. Tailing this claim, the research team of the State Bank of India published a validating report that claimed a match between the total number of workers in the India-KLEMS database and in the NSSO’s Annual Survey of …

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Centre mulling monthly jobs survey, change in PLFS frequency
4 months, 1 week ago

Centre mulling monthly jobs survey, change in PLFS frequency

Hindustan Times  

In a potentially significant shift that could help better capture labour-market dynamics, the Union government is planning to conduct the Periodic Labour Force Survey, which gives official employment and unemployment data, more frequently than it currently does, a senior official said. Currently, the PLFS issues quarterly data on key indicators but with a lag, including the country’s unemployment rate for …

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A budget boost for more women at work
4 months, 2 weeks ago

A budget boost for more women at work

New Indian Express  

The Union Budget for 2024-25 has allocated more than Rs 3 lakh crore for schemes benefitting women and girls. The latest Periodic Labour Force Survey reported the participation rate of women in the workforce was at 35.9 percent in 2022-23, while that of men was 76 percent—a gap of over 40 percentage points. Though women’s participation has increased 13.9 percentage …

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Living in denial about unemployment
5 months ago

Living in denial about unemployment

The Hindu  

Recently, citing a Reserve Bank of India report that said that 8 crore jobs have been created in the last 3-4 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Opposition of creating false narratives about unemployment. Conflicting reports and statements Mr. Modi quoted a RBI ‘Data Manual’ released on July 7, called ‘The India KLEMS Database’, which “.describes the procedures, methodologies …

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Centre questions Citigroup’s report on employment in India
5 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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Labour ministry rebuts Citigroup's research report on employment in India
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour ministry rebuts Citigroup's research report on employment in India

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The labour ministry on Monday rebutted a recent report by Citigroup which forecast that India will struggle to create sufficient employment opportunities even with a 7 per cent growth rate. The ministry in a statement said the report "fails to account for the comprehensive and positive employment data available from official sources such as Periodic Labour Force Survey …

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Job creation, skill training should be new govt’s top priorities
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Job creation, skill training should be new govt’s top priorities

New Indian Express  

Joblessness and inflation were the key concerns of the electorate at the 2024 parliamentary elections. The latest Periodic Labour Force Survey, with numbers for the January-March 2024 quarter, shows unemployment—especially youth unemployment—and underemployment are indeed very high in a country where the labour force participation rate is just about 50 per cent. The PLFS shows that the unemployment rate in …

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Urban unemployment rate at 6.7% in quarter ending March 2024 : NSSO data
7 months, 1 week 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 …

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Net EPFO subscribers in FY24 jump; check out the big numbers
8 months ago

Net EPFO subscribers in FY24 jump; check out the big numbers

Hindustan Times  

In what is deemed as a bg improvement in India’s jobs situation, it has been reported that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has logged over 19% growth in net subscribers to 1.65 crore members in 2023-24. There have been significant improvements across a number of metrics including net EPFO subscribers. The net subscribers addition by EPFO jumped in excess of …

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Has the growth of India’s economy translated into domestic jobs?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Has the growth of India’s economy translated into domestic jobs?

Live Mint  

Recently, two international organizations published their assessment of India’s labour market and employment situation. Over the 42 years between 1980-81 and 2021-22, non-farm employment in India grew at a compounded average annual growth rate of 3.16%. As stated in its report, the concern of the World Bank is that the employment ratio in South Asian economies, including India, has declined …

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Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India

Live Mint  

Even though the fact-sheet on the Consumption Expenditure Survey has been officially released, the debate on poverty is far from over. For all of India, it would imply a poverty line of ₹445 per day, slightly higher than the government notified minimum wages. This was only ₹310 per day in case of agricultural workers, lower than the estimate reported by …

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Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?
9 months, 1 week ago

Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?

The Hindu  

Subrahmanyam recently claimed that less than 5% of Indians now live below the poverty line. Mr. Subrahmanyam argued that the average consumption expenditure in the bottom 5% of India’s population, as estimated by the survey, is about the same as the poverty line in India, suggesting that the poverty rate in India is somewhere in the range of 0 to …

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Decoding India’s economic realities: Comparing the state of the economy under the NDA and UPA governments
10 months, 1 week ago

Decoding India’s economic realities: Comparing the state of the economy under the NDA and UPA governments

The Hindu  

February 12, 2024 11:06 pm | Updated February 13, 2024 09:54 pm IST With the BJP-led government exuding over-confidence on the state of the economy, the interim Budget presented earlier this month has shifted focus to fiscal consolidation. Even then, the simple truth which is evident from the official data is that on average, real GDP growth was at least …

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India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce
10 months, 3 weeks ago

India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce

The Hindu  

The Union Ministries of Labour & Employment and Women & Child Development have started a joint survey on increasing women participation in the workforce. The survey was announced by Union Minister Smriti Irani in New Delhi at a function “Women in the Workforce for Viksit Bharat” on Tuesday. Latest PLFS data The latest results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey, …

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Analysing the rising gap in incomes
11 months ago

Analysing the rising gap in incomes

The Hindu  

According to a recent report by the State Bank of India, India has witnessed a significant fall in inequality over the last decade. Examining taxpayer data, the report claims that the Gini coefficient — a standard measure of inequality that ranges from 0, indicating perfect equality, to 1, indicating perfect inequality — has fallen from 0.472 in 2014-15 to 0.402 …

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Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth
1 year ago

Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth

Live Mint  

The share of women in regular salaried jobs in urban India dropped from 54% in the first quarter to 52.8% in the second quarter, according to quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey data, Business Standard reported. Since salaried workers receive regular wages, that type of work is preferred to casual work or self-employment, which also includes working as unpaid household help …

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

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