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New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday accused the Modi government of indulging in "statistical jugglery" over the unemployment issue, and said that the truth remains that the unemployment rate today is the highest it has been in the last four decades..
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said a Union Minister recently derided the ILO's Employment Report as a symptom of India's "slave mentality."..
"Instead, he made the absurd claim of having added 52 million new formal jobs between FY20 and FY23 based on EPFO, ESI, and National Pension Scheme database," he said.. Ramesh's remarks were a reference to the reported comments by Union minister Anurag Thakur at a media conclave last week when he had said that India has been relying on international rating agencies for years, but it should now go by the data from domestic ones which are now equally equipped...
Subscribers can now transfer their PF accounts while changing employers, without having to submit a claim for final settlement," he said.. Noting that establishments with 20 or more employees come under the purview of the EPF act, Ramesh said firms which move from 19 to 20 employees in one year will suddenly appear in the EPFO data as 20 new "jobs" even though net job creation is a single new job...
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