India's unemployment at 45-year high in 2017-18: NSSO report
New Delhi, Jan 31: The National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey (PLFS) has said that in 2017-18, the country’s unemployment rate stood at a 45-year high of 6.1%.
This data was collected by the NSSO between July 2017 and June 2018 and is the first official survey of the country’s employment situation after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of high-value currency notes in November 2016.
Earlier, surveys conducted by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy had said that 1.5 million jobs were lost just in the first four months of 2017 – immediately after demonetisation.
According to Business Standard, the report states that unemployment was last this high in 1972-73. To compare, the unemployment rate in the country had gone down to 2.2% in 2011-12, according to NSSO data.
Youth unemployment was much higher in 2017-18 than in previous years, according to the government report, and “much higher compared to that in the overall population”.
Joblessness for rural male youth (aged 15-29) went from 5% in 2011-12 to 17.4% in 2017-18. For rural women in the same age group, joblessness went from 4.8% in 2011-12 to 13.6% in 2017-18, according to Business Standard.
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Oppn MPs detained on way to EC hq, Rahul says fight not political but to save Constitution
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New Delhi (PTI): Scores of opposition MPs, including Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, were detained on Monday as they took out a protest march from Parliament House to the Election Commission but were stopped midway.
Among those detained and taken away in buses to the Parliament Street police station were Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and his party colleague Jairam Ramesh.
"This fight is not political but for saving the Constitution," Rahul Gandhi told reporters. "... the truth is before entire country," he added.
As the MPs were stopped by the police from moving forward, several of them sat on the road in front of the PTI Building on Parliament Street, less than a kilometre from the Election Commission, and raised slogans demanding a rollback of the SIR.
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