Jobless Jawans: India's Male Workforce Is Lowest In 25 Years, No Wonder Govt Buried NSSO Report
India&rsquos male workforce or men who are working has shrivelled. Currently there are 286 crore employed male in the country. The NSSO report based on the PLFS conducted between July 2017 and June 2018 is yet to be released by the government.
According to the NSSO¡¯s Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18, for the first time since 1993-94, the actual size of India¡¯s male workforce, or men who are working has shrivelled.
Currently, there are 28.6 crore employed male in the country.
The NSSO report was reviewed by Indian Express.
This is the first drop in the male workforce that gradually grew from 21.9 crore in 1993-94 to 30.4 crore in 2011-12 when the last NSSO survey was conducted. The data means that fewer men were employed in 2017-18 than five years ago.
There¡¯s a steeper decline in employment rate in rural areas than in urban areas. The NSSO report, based on the PLFS conducted between July 2017 and June 2018, is yet to be released by the government. The NSSO report was first outed by Business Standard and since then government has been working hard to keep it under wraps.
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The Acting Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission P C Mohanan and another member, J V Meenakshi, had quit in January after government decided to junk the report and never release the findings.
According to a report by Business Standard, the National Sample Survey Office¡¯s Periodic Labour Force Survey recorded the unemployment rate in India at a 45-year-high of 6.1% in 2017-18.
This was the first full financial year after the government demonetised high-value currency notes in November 2016 and the citizens were thrown unexpectedly into a pit.
The Periodic Labour Force Survey is also the first annual household survey of the National Sample Survey Office. This data was collected by the NSSO between July 2017 and June 2018.
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Unemployment for rural male youth (aged 15-29) went from 5 per cent in 2011-12 to 17.4 per cent in 2017-18. For rural women in the same age group, joblessness went from 4.8 per cent in 2011-12 to 13.6 per cent in 2017-18, according to Business Standard.
Later, the government decided to consider the MUDRA data to reveal the status of employment in the country. However, just last week, government put the MUDRA job survey in deep freeze.
Government has also not make public the Labour Bureau¡¯s 6th annual employment-unemployment survey showing job loss during NDA tenure.