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Employment inches up in urban India

There was a marginal improvement in India's labour participation rate to 39.92% in February compared to 39.8% in January 2023

Unemployment rate fell in 2021-22

The rate of unemployment has declined the most for urban women and the least for rural women

Unemployment rate rises to 16-month high of 8.30% in Dec 2022: CMIE

The urban unemployment rate rose to 10.09% in December from 8.96% in the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate slipped to 7.44% from 7.55%, the data showed

Unemployment rate in India surges to 7.77% in October: CMIE data

The CMIE data further revealed that the rural unemployment rate rose to 8.04 per cent in October from 5.84 per cent in September.

Rural pain pushes India's unemployment rate up to 7.7% in October: CMIE

The report said the decline in employment was mostly in rural India and mainly in non-agricultural rural India and the daily wage labourer segment was the most hit as it shrunk by nearly 15 million

India jobless rate rises in Oct led by sharp rise in rural unemployment

Rural unemployment rate climbed to 8.04% from 5.84% in September, while urban jobless rate was at 7.21% compared to 7.7% a month before

States' MGNREGA under probe for potential financial misappropriation

Some states have been using more than permitted MGNREGA funds to build rural infrastructure instead of generating livelihood opportunities for rural needy, says Central government

Increasing work on individual land under MGNREGA a boon to rural income?

In total, around 6.41 million works under individual land has been undertaken in 2021-22 financial year, of which Bihar leads the pack.

India's low youth employment rate

The 15-24 years age group has a relatively low labour participation rate (LPR). Between 2016-17 and 2021-22, while the average was 42.6%, the LPR for the youth was much lower at 22.7%

10 mn apprenticeships in 10 yrs: What India needs to solve its unemployment

TeamLease and JustJobs Network report notes that instead of around 125,000 apprentices, CPSUs have only 41,250 on board

Rural stress

Most of the souring of sentiments emanated from rural India. It is likely that the principal reason for this is the behaviour of the southwest monsoon

India's unemployment lowest in six months at 6.8% in July: CMIE data

Urban unemployment jumped to 8.21 per cent in July from 7.80 per cent in June as the number of jobs fell both in industry as well as services

Countrywide stir needed to stall Agnipath, says farmer leader Tikait

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday opposed the Centre's "Agnipath" scheme for recruitment to the armed forces, saying a countrywide movement is needed to stall it.

Sentiments sour

It is quite possible that the controls on export of wheat and sugar could have caused the sentiments in general and expectations in particular to sour in recent times

What explains the 11% decline in demand for MGNREGS employment in April?

Around 11% fewer households demanded work under the rural employment scheme MGNREGA in April. What led to this fall in demand for MGNREGA work? Find the answer here

Sluggish recovery after sharp fall

The inverse relationship between household income levels and the rate of recovery in consumer sentiments is both disappointing and counter-intuitive. But the data is unambiguous

Rural women make up for rising unemployment in urban men in 2019-20: PLFS

Job situation improved in 12 months to June 2020, but deteriorated sharply in the latter half of the reference period due to lockdown

Employment recovery expected in July

But, the recovery was incomplete because the employment rate, which is the working age population that is employed, never repaired with its pre-Covid levels

Hope floats on rural recovery

The recent improvement in consumer sentiment is almost entirely a rural India story

Making MGNREGA work

Shortcomings such as delayed payments must be fixed