India's Unemployment rate all time high at 7.8% in March, highest in 3 months: CMIE data
New Delhi: According to data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) on Saturday, India's labor markets have been deteriorating, with the unemployment rate rising to 7.8% in March - the highest in three months. This follows a surge to 8.3% in December 2022, which declined to 7.14% in January this year, but edged up slightly to 7.45% a month later. The unemployment rate was higher in cities at 8.4% compared to 7.5% in rural areas.
Mahesh Vyas, the managing director of CMIE, explained that this problem is exacerbated by a fall in the labor force participation rate, which dropped from 39.9% to 39.8%. This led to a decrease in employment from 409.9 million to 407.6 million. According to experts, the end of the festive season that began in October last year until January this year, had a negative impact on employment in retail, supply chain, logistics, financial services and e-commerce. This resulted in a slowdown in fresh hiring, with the technology and start-up sectors also tightening their belts.
The data showed that the lowest unemployment rates were in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh at 0.8% each, followed by Puducherry at 1.5%, Gujarat at 1.8%, Karnataka at 2.3%, and Meghalaya and Odisha at 2.6% each.
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Tirupati laddu row: Samples of Ayodhya Ram temple 'prasad' sent for testing
Ayodhya, Sep 27: The Food Safety and Drug Administration Department on Friday collected samples of 'elaichi daana' or cardamom seeds being distributed as 'prasad' at the Ram Janmabhoomi temple here and sent them for testing, officials said.
The action was taken following a complaint lodged through the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), Assistant Food Commissioner Manik Chand Singh said.
Singh said the samples were procured from Haiderganj, where the cardamom seed offerings are prepared and sent to the Jhansi State Laboratory for comprehensive testing and evaluation.
Prakash Gupta, the officer in charge of the Ram Temple trust, revealed that on average, around 80,000 packets of cardamom seeds are distributed daily as a sacred offering.
Amid a row over the alleged presence of animal fat in laddus at the Tirupati Temple in Andhra Pradesh, the chief priest of the Ram temple here on Thursday questioned the purity of ghee being sold nationwide and said 'prasad' should be prepared under the supervision of temple priests only.
