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.
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.
The protests in Bangladesh against the job quota system underscore a deep and growing dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration.
Around 150 years ago, British PM Benjamin Disraeli said: “There are three types of lies ~ lies, damn lies, and statistics” ~ a statement as true today as it was the day it was made. A recent example would suffice.
