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.
The latest data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday revealed that the urban unemployment rate declined to 6.6% in Q1 (April-June) of FY25, from a four-quarter high of 6.7% in the preceding quarter.
In discussions about India’s economic landscape, a provocative idea has emerged: that well intentioned welfare schemes might inadvertently dissuade the youth from actively seeking employment.
The rise in the US unemployment rate to 4.3 per cent, a near three-year high, underscores significant changes in the global economic landscape.
The data on Employment and Unemployment is collected through Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) which is conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) since 2017-18, said an official.
The unemployment rate for youth aged 15 to 29 years in India has been declining steadily over the last five years and has come down from 17.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 10 per cent in 2023-24, according to data tabled in the Parliament on Monday.
