Please accept my appreciation for the editorial, “An employment crisis”. Certain policies of the present government, including demonetisation, are responsible for the decline in jobs.
The informal sector has been adversely affected by demonetisation. According to the International Labour Organisation, a large section of youth between 18 and 25 are unemployed despite being skilled.
Lack of proper infrastructure and awareness is responsible for slow growth of digitisation. Implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) without covering key areas such as real estate, alcohol, petroleum and tobacco is another wrong move by the government. The manufacturing sector is languishing. Micro, small and
