Working hours in India one of the highest in the world, shows NSSO report

This is the first official estimate of working hours done by a statistical agency in India and a quarter-wise trend was captured in the PLFS report

People in India devote one of the longest hours at work on an average compared to its global peers, the National Sample Sample Survey Office (NSSO)'s first periodic labour force survey (PLFS) showed.

On an average, workers in cities worked 53-54 hours and those in villages worked 46-47 hours in a week during July-June 2018. The NSSO survey showed that women in rural areas were severely underemployed as close of half of them worked for less than 36 hours in a week, even as men in urban areas worked for comparatively longer hours – often in the range of 60-84