National Statistical Commission has approved NSSO report: Labour Minister

Days after the government termed the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) periodic labour force survey (PLFS) report as a ‘draft’, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar told the Lok Sabha (LS) on Monday it was approved by a top statistics body in December.

The government has not released the NSSO’s PLFS report for 2017-18, which shows unemployment rate at a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent, even after the required approvals were in place.

“For the year 2017-18 (July 2017-June 2018), the NSSO has completed (the) survey and submitted (a) draft report to National Statistical Commission (NSC), which has