With reference to “Job euphoria may be misplaced” (January 23), one feels the writer has come up with an erroneous analysis of the study Towards a payroll reporting in India (Ghosh and Ghosh). The writer raises several flags to discard the study, some of them are: overlap and duplication across various social sector schemes namely Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIC), another is, new addition to EPFO wrongly interpreted as job creation.
On careful analysis of the study, it comes to the fore that it has addressed the issues raised above. To weed out duplication of entries
