Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy

Travels through the Hindi belt: In Lucknow, daily wage earners vouch for Narendra Modi, feel Rahul Gandhi hasn't arrived yet

According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Uttar Pradesh’s unemployment rate is 8.1 percent as against the national average of 6.7 percent.

COVID-19 impact: Informal economy workers excluded from most govt measures, be it cash transfers or tax benefits

Like demonetisation, the current lockdown has exposed millions of workers and their families to starvation, hunger, death and very bleak future prospects.

Coronavirus Lockdown: India's unemployment rate soars to 27.11% for week ended 3 May, says CMIE

The COVID-19 crisis has led to a spike in the country's unemployment rate to 27.11 percent for the week ended 3 May, up from the under 7 percent level before the start of the pandemic in mid-March, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) has said

Extension of coronavirus lockdown without ensuring access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 patients may defeat efforts to avoid collateral damage

India has a whopping 54.6 million people with heart disease, 83 people per lakh population have cancer.

Bharat Bandh 2020: Over 10 national trade unions, thousand of strikers disrupt transport, banking services in protest against privatisation, unemployment

More than 10 national trade unions affiliated to left-wing parties, including the main opposition Congress, have called for a nationwide protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s labour reforms.

India's jobs crisis: It's no more about who's responsible, it's about what we do now to arrest precipitous slide

The Narendra Modi government, very prickly about criticism on the economy, has been defending the problem of job deficit by picking the methodology that suits its counter-narrative, using the EPFO-based methodology.

India has wage problem, not job problem; need to adopt Chinese model of opening up labour-intensive industries: Mohandas Pai

TV Mohandas Pai said India does not face a job problem, but one of wages, as a lot of low paid jobs being created do not find favour with degree holders.

With exit polls predicting another Narendra Modi win, new govt will face challenges of unemployment, international trade ties

Narendra Modi, who is tipped to win the Lok Sabha polls according to exit polls, will need to tackle a host of issues ranging from unemployment to weak economic growth.

Labour Day 2019: Not just vanishing private investments, high cost of labour too is killing India's job market

There is no major mention of labour reforms in the BJP manifesto, even the Congress manifesto which speaks GST reforms and job creation has paid no significant attention to labour law reforms

Rahul Gandhi has walked into a trap by centering his Lok Sabha campaign on anti-Modi narrative, not real issues

By the time the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign entered its final lap, most of the real issues — economic reform, farm crisis and unemployment — had clearly taken a backseat