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Updated Feb 25, 2021 | 14:03 IST
26 February 2021 strike: The All India Transporters Welfare Association (AITWA) has asked all transport companies to park their vehicles between 6 am to 8 pm tomorrow. Representative image | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) will on 26th February 2021 (Friday) observe Bharat Bandh against,
inter alia, rising fuel prices, the new e-way bill, Goods and Services Tax (GST).
In response to the CAIT’s call for
bharat bandh tomorrow, around 40,000 trade associations have decided to extend their support.
The All India Transport Welfare Association (AITWA) - the apex body of the organised road transportation companies – will also support tomorrow’s bandh and hold a c
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has called a Bharat Bandh tomorrow on 26 February during which the traders will stage dharnas (protests) at as many as 1,500 places across the nation, demanding the Centre, state governments and the GST Council to keep in abeyance the "draconian" provisions of GST.
India should focus on job creation for balanced growth
The analysis shows that employment growth as well as wage growth have slowed down the most in mid-sized firms. Photo: iStock
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Lalit Bhasin
Our effort to revive GDP growth is laudable, but the generation of jobs needs special attention. State support measures should be aimed at sectors that employ people in large numbers.
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Budget 2021-22 was a balanced one, given the difficult circumstances the country faced. Having said that, India’s fast-recovering economy is not doing enough to create jobs. To fix this, the government must focus not just on accelerating growth, but on fuelling employment too. So far, our V-shaped revival of gross domestic product has not translated into a recovery of lost jobs. India’s unemployment rate rose to 9% in December, by data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, with around 9 million losing their jobs between September and that month. The Union bu