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Govt rebuts Citigroup's claim that India will fail to plug jobs gap with 7% growth
The ministry says it strongly rebuts such reports which do not analyse all official data sources available in the public domain.
The ministry says it strongly rebuts such reports which do not analyse all official data sources available in the public domain.
With youth constituting 82.9% of total unemployment, fertility rate below replacement level since 2021 and working-age population set to decline by 57% during 2031-41, demographic dividend is over
India should give primacy to labour-intensive manufacturing employment to absorb the abundant unskilled labour, says ILO
The report highlights that in rural areas, the unemployment rate declined to 2.4% in 2023, as against 2.8% in the preceding year.
The female unemployment rate of persons aged 15 years and above stood at 8.6% during the period under review, as against 9.4% in the same period last year.
Jobs continue to shift from high-productive, high-paying to low-productive, low-paying informal sectors; wages and social security fall – all pointing to a job crisis
The unemployment rate in both rural and urban areas dipped to 2.4% and 5.4%, respectively
According to CMIE, the unemployment rate in rural areas fell to 6.20% in September from 7.11% in August this year.
Policies oriented towards achieving faster GDP growth will not necessarily speed up job creation, says a report by Azim Premji University
In May, the number of unemployed people stood at 33.9 million as against 38.7 million unemployed persons in April.