Patralekha Chatterjee | Ensure growth with jobs: Don't leave poor behind
This “jobless growth” has left millions of Indians in precarious conditions, scrounging for whatever work they can get
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This “jobless growth” has left millions of Indians in precarious conditions, scrounging for whatever work they can get
To address hunger, the Government of Delhi had issued temporary ration e-coupons in the first COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020. This article uses a data set of nearly 17 lakh households that applied for e-coupons to measure and spatialise food insecurity in the city. It does so to measure unmet demand for social protection as well as to draw learnings for the design of urban social
ARRAH, India - Prem Prakash has been trying for five years to get a job in India's armed forces, which used to provide employment for 17 years to the lucky few who passed the exams and physical tests. But since the government announced a new recruitment system for the military aimed at making it younger and more efficient, the 22-year-old...
Using CWS method, unemployment rate came out at 7.5 per cent in 2020-21 against 8.8 per cent in 2018-19 and 2019-20
Welfare of urban poor a concern, with unemployment rate higher than in rural areas. Read more at straitstimes.com.