The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Tuesday staged a protest against the Centre at Jantar Mantar over the issues of rising unemployment, drug abuse among youths, and the Agniveer scheme.
The first economic survey tabled after a gap of seven years in the Assembly on Thursday by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant progress in the employment sector, with the unemployment rate declining to 6.1 per cent in 2023-24 from 6.7 per cent in 2019-20.
India's biggest challenge is not just unemployment, but the unemployability of over 60 crore youth.
In Jharkhand, the issue of unemployment has once again become the center of a political debate. While the government is celebrating the handing over of appointment letters to 289 candidates under the Urban Development and Housing Department by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, BJP state president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi called it a "PR stunt".
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary demanded that the Centre should publish a white paper on the mounting unemployment in the country.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Monday said that neither the Congress-led UPA nor the BJP-led NDA has been able to tackle the problem of unemployment in the country.
Arvind Kejriwal said here on Thursday that eliminating unemployment from Delhi would be his top priority in the next five years.
Japan's labour market continued to see improvement in September as unemployment rate fell further, a government report showed Tuesday.
Malaysia's unemployed in July declined 0.3 percent to 563,700 persons from June, with unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.3 per cent, official data showed Monday.
Early September witnessed buying by FPIs mainly due to the resilience of the Indian market.
