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Bihar clocks 10.5 per cent growth rate in FY 2019-20: Economic Survey
Bihar recorded double-digit growth rate in the financial year 2019-20, more than double the rate of growth at the national level then. The growth rate in Bihar in 2019-20 fiscal has been recorded at 10.5 per cent while it was 4.2 at the national level during the period, the Economic Survey 2020-21 introduced in the state legislative assembly during the day said.
The state had clocked 9.3 per cent growth rate in the fiscal 2018-19, the survey said, adding the increase in the succeeding financial year was largely fuelled by the growth of services sector.
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India emerges as leading country for flexi-staffing, platform workers: Economic Survey
India has emerged as one of the largest countries for flexi-staffing or gig and platform workers, as e-commerce platforms created massive opportunities amid the pandemic, according to the Economic Survey 2020-21. The lockdown period also saw the growth of the gig economy and increasing work from home in the organised sector, the survey tabled in Parliament said on Friday.
According to the policy document, the nature of work has been changing with the change in technology, the evolution of new economic activities, innovation in organisation structures and evolving business models.