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Jobs in India projected to fall 2.5% to 395 mn in Q3: CMIE The CMIE projected that employment in India will decline by 2.5 per cent to 395 million in December quarter of FY21, compared to 405 million in the year ago period Chitranjan Kumar | December 22, 2020 | Updated 20:53 IST December quarter would end with employment of 395 million, says CMIE India s employment is expected to fall by 2.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in October-December quarter of the current fiscal (FY21) as compared to the same period last year, according to a latest report by private think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The third quarter of fiscal FY21 would end with employment of 395 million, which would be 2.5 per cent lower than 405 million employed in the December 2019 quarter, as per the CMIE data. ....
Urban female labour participation rate falls to its lowest in November since 2016: CMIE SECTIONS Share Synopsis Data from CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey shows the urban female labour participation rate (FLPR) in April, which was the first month of lockdown, fell to 7.35%. This was over 200 basis points lower than its average of 9.7% in 2019-20 and much lower than rural female labour participation rate of 11.3% in the last fiscal. It dropped to 7.2% in October and fell further in November at 6.9%. The declining urban female labour participation rate in India fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. This trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. ....
Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 21:14 IST According to CMIE, India’s biggest challenge on the employment front is getting its womenfolk into the labour force Urban women workforce participation rate shrinks to its lowest in November since 2016, says CMIE New Delhi: The urban female labour participation rate in the country fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. The trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Speaking on Friday at the Women@Work conference organised by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune International Centre, India Development Foundation and the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Vyas said during 2018 and 2019, when there were no economic shocks, the female participation in the labour force had stabilised at 11%, ....
Although men too lost jobs, the pandemic affected Indian women in the workforce harder Eight months after the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, 13% fewer women than a year ago were employed or looking for jobs, compared to 2% fewer men, data shows. Dec 16, 2020 · 01:30 pm The issues particular to migrant women labourers remain largely ignored in policy and programme interventions. | Amit Dave/Reuters In the video, the woman lies dead, her body laid out on the railway platform at Muzaffarpur, Bihar. A toddler, presumably the woman’s, plays by her side, tugging at the sheet that covers her. For weeks, a grim nation had watched ....
In the video, the woman lies dead, her body laid out on the railway platform at Muzaffarpur, Bihar. A toddler, presumably the woman s, plays by her side, tugging at the sheet that covers her. For weeks, a grim nation had watched migrant workers struggle to return home after they found themselves stranded in urban India with no means of survival, due to the abrupt imposition of the strict nationwide lockdown on March 24. Transportation services were suspended until, on May 1, Indian Railways began operating special Shramik trains for stranded migrant workers. On May 23, Arvina Khatoon, the woman on the railway platform, and her family had boarded one such train in Ahmedabad. Early media reports suggested she subsequently died of hunger and dehydration. East Central Railways claimed Khatoon was already ill when she boarded the train. ....