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New Delhi:Indias employment scenario has improved, but this improvement would be reversed if overlooked segments, such as unpaid family labour (UFL), are included in government employment data, according to economist Santosh Mehrotra...
According to Mehrotra, a developmental economist and visiting professor at the University of Bath, if the trend in UFL is taken into account, Indias employment scenario would show a downward trend, and marks the worst form of reversal in employment trends in India...
At a seminar,Employment Generation in India Facts and Figures, organised by thepublic policy think tankCentre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) Tuesday, Mehrotra said that the employment data and narrative promoted by the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are flawed and need assessment...
The KLEMS (K: Capital, L: Labour, E: Energy, M: Materials and S: Services) database provides employment estimates at all India-level, including public and private sectors...
He also asked where these8 crore jobs came from if the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)the source of the KLEMS reportshows employment only increased from 54 crore to 57 crore in the past three years...
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