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Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday.
Last week, the National Statistical Office released the Annual Report of its Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), covering the period between July 2019 and June 2020. This period included the second quarter of the calendar year 2020, when the Indian economy was reeling from a stringent lockdown meant to contain the spread of Covid-19. In this context, our lead editorial notes that, while the PLFS does provide valuable information about the state of the workforce, it comes too late to make a tangible difference to policy.
