Centre admits unemployment data was leaked, says it’s trying to identify those responsible

Minister Rao Inderjit Singhs said the new method for unemployment surveys was different and therefore cannot be compared to previous years.

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· Jul 18, 2019 · 06:19 pm

Unemployment rate for 2017-’18 is not comparable with previous surveys, says chief statistician

Pravin Srivastava said the present survey emphasised on education levels unlike earlier surveys which were based on monthly per capita expenditure.

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· Jun 01, 2019 · 10:36 am

Centre releases report that showed unemployment rose to 45-year high of 6.1% in 2017-’18

Opposition leaders had earlier accused the Narendra Modi government of burying the report.

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· May 31, 2019 · 06:55 pm

Since demonetisation in 2016, about 50 lakh men have lost their jobs, shows new report

The report said the ‘beginning of the decline in jobs’ coincided with the note ban exercise but ‘no direct relationship can be established based only on this’.

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· Apr 17, 2019 · 09:47 am

Government survey on jobs under Mudra scheme will be released after Lok Sabha polls, says report

An expert committee reportedly found irregularities in the methodology used by the Labour Bureau and asked for rectification.

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· Mar 14, 2019 · 11:09 am

Former PM Manmohan Singh says jobless growth has slipped into job-loss growth

The Congress leader said the agrarian crisis, declining job opportunities and environmental degradation are challenges facing the country.

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· Feb 17, 2019 · 08:20 pm

Jobs report comparable to 2011-’12, NITI Aayog CEO not a statistician: Ex-chair of statistics panel

PC Mohanan said Amitabh Kant’s skepticism ‘strikes at the fundamentals’ of the National Sample Survey Organisation.

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· Feb 13, 2019 · 11:19 am

Unemployment data: National Statistical Commission has approved NSSO report, says labour minister

The National Sample Survey Office is currently processing quarterly data for the period July 2017 to December 2018, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said.

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· Feb 12, 2019 · 11:24 am

Unemployment: Former statistical commission chief denies Centre’s claim that report is a ‘draft’

PC Mohanan said that once the National Statistical Commission approved the report, it was final.

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· Feb 11, 2019 · 11:02 am

Centre does not have data on impact of demonetisation on employment, minister tells Lok Sabha

Santosh Kumar Gangwar cited the unemployment rate from 2015-’16 when asked about the latest data available on unemployment.

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· Feb 05, 2019 · 09:27 am

More than half of India’s working-age population out of labour force: Business Standard

A yet-to-be-released government report showed that only about a quarter of the women in India are working or seeking work.

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· Feb 04, 2019 · 10:11 am

Arun Jaitley questions unemployment data, says lack of jobs would have led to ‘great social unrest’

The Union finance minister said high tax collections in the 2016-’17 and 2017-’18 financial years were an indicator of high growth.

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· Feb 01, 2019 · 07:06 pm