Somesh Jha filed a revealing report on the unemployment situation in 2016-17 in this newspaper last week. What was most revealing was not the unemployment rate in the year which has gained a notoriety of its own because of demonetisation. What was most revealing was that the Labour Bureau's employment / unemployment report for 2016-17 was deliberately held back from release by the government.
This was the sixth report on the subject by the Labour Bureau. The first was conducted in 2010. The Bureau has conducted six large household surveys in as many years.
Unlike the NSSO, the Labour Bureau
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