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Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday.
There is considerable distress within India’s labour force. This distress has manifested in an increase in the agricultural workforce in the periodic labour force survey over the previous round in 2017-18, for the first time in national sample survey history. It is in this context that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on labour backed the idea of an urban employment guarantee programme recently. However, there are substantive differences in the pattern of work and distress across rural and urban areas of India that make designing an employment scheme for
