Report on high unemployment among Indian youth missing from its website, ILO says 'technical glitch'

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New Delhi: The India Employment Report 2024 by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Institute for Human Development, which had elicited much comment and controversy earlier this year due to its dire findings on employment in India, is no longer available on the ILOs website and its link has stopped working...

The report, released in March this year, had made an analysis of the labour market trends in India over a period of 20 years..

Among the most notable of its findings was that the youth made up 83 percent of the total unemployed population, as of 2022..

Responding to a request for comment on whether the report has been taken down or received objections by the Indian government, and if and when it will be back up, the ILO told ThePrint via email: The ILO website has migrated to the updated version during the past months, and some technical glitches have been observed which are being fixed by our HQ colleague as we speak..

We have not received any communication from the ILO or the Government of India regarding either objections to the report or taking it down, Priyanka Tyagi, the institutes chief executive officer, told ThePrint...