Unemployment

India’s unemployment rate increased to 5.6% in May

The rise from 5.1% in April was because of a combination of ‘seasonal, academic and labour market-related factors’, said the government.

Scroll Staff
· Jun 17, 2025 · 10:59 am
India’s unemployment trends are sending a distress signal

The country’s multi-dimensional crisis of poor growth and education and an increasingly ageing workforce is becoming evident.

Santosh Mehrotra, University of Bath
· May 26, 2025 · 08:30 pm
Labour minister suggests revising employment definition to include women working within household

Mansukh Mandaviya questioned why a woman is ‘considered employed only when she works in someone else’s home and not her own’.

Scroll Staff
· Jan 16, 2025 · 06:42 pm

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