Best of BS Opinion: Job crisis in rural India and need for peace in Kashmir

A warning note about the dearth of jobs in rural India; a call for restoring peace in Kashmir; and a review of TRAI's cable television channel pricing has worked out. Pallav Nayak sums up the views.

Rural India is witnessing the highest labour participation rate in over a year, but it is not finding jobs. Rains have been erratic and sowing is lower than it was last year. Urban India is not a great absorber of labour: employment rate there has been falling steadily. Therefore, any weakening of the rural labour markets could be ominous, writes Mahesh Vyas.

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