National Sample Survey Office

Over 90% firms surveyed filed returns, clarifies Central Statistics Office to NSSO

The NSSO said a large number of units forming part of MCA 21 database, used in computing GDP, were either not identifiable or traceable in the field

High growth achieved by India not possible without job creation: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

Kant said that when non-NDA ruled states like Karnataka and West Bengal are claiming that jobs are being created, then it was not possible that at all India level, employment is not being generated

50 lakh people lost jobs since demonetisation in 2016, reveals latest report on job crisis; unemployment rate rose to over 6% in 2018

The CSE survey said lakh men lost their jobs between 2016 and 2018 and the beginning of the decline of jobs coinciding with demonetisation in November 2016.

Risks of pakoda economics: Modi govt buries its head in sand, but unemployment may decide Lok Sabha poll result

Survey after survey is revealing that lack of employment will be one of the most pressing challenges facing the Modi government.

Narendra Modi can forgo Rs 3,50,000 cr loan of businessmen, but has trouble giving Rs 72,000 to poor: Randeep Surjewala

Randeep Surjewala explained that minimum income guarantee was not a "top-up scheme" and will be implemented to the poor across urban and rural areas

Unemployment crisis in India: Why BJP's 2014 election manifesto promising jobs has remained only a political document

National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), a central agency tasked with carrying out large-scale surveys, has found unemployment in the country at a 45-year high of 6.1 percent in a recent report

Govt to conduct pan-India survey to assess plight of farmers, ascertain their income and indebtedness

Govt said the 'Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households' will be conducted during the 77th round of the National Sample Survey in the current calendar year

Rajasthan hikes unemployment allowance: Like farm loan waiver, grant may end up as competition among states

With Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot announcing a hike in the unemployment allowance to be paid to jobless youth in the state, the question arises as to whether the allowance stands to become the new farm loan waiver which has become grounds for competition among political parties.

Political bickering over unemployment ignores real crisis; lack of jobs and counter-measures should be focus, not barbs

Why is the Centre hesitant to release the NSSO report officially when it has maintained that there is job growth in the country, and schemes such as 'Skill India' and 'Make in India' were working to this end?

With unemployment at 45-year high, how can we believe that the economy is growing at 7%, asks P Chidambaram

Chidambaram's remark came ahead of the interim Budget on Friday. The government on Thursday said it has not finalised the survey on labour force which reportedly showed that the unemployment rate in the country hit a 45-year high of 6.1 percent in 2017-18