Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya Chairs High-level Meeting on Employment Data

Ministry Working on Mechanism for Collation of Employment Data and its Analytics.  Union Minister of Labour & Employment and Youth Affairs & Sports, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a high-level meeting focusing on the key issues related to employment data and overseas emigration trends in New Delhi on 07.10.2024. Union Minister of State for Labour and […]

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India’s 7% growth fails to generate jobs: Raghuram Rajan

With 7% economic growth, India is not creating enough jobs as reflected by the number of applicants for vacant posts in some states, Reserve Bank’s former governor Raghuram Rajan said and suggested the government needs to focus on promoting labor-intensive industries to generate employment. Rajan further said some Indians, especially those at upper level, are […]

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Unemployment rate falls to 4.9% in 2023-24

The CWS measures the activity status of a person on the basis of a reference period of the last 7 days preceding the date of survey. India’s overall unemployment rate comprising both urban and rural areas came down to 4.9% in 2023-2024 (July-June), from 5.1% in 2022-23, the Government said on Monday, quoting the results […]

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