At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian EconomyтАЩs (CMIE’s) report claims an upward trend in employment in IndiaтАЩs labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, senior economists have sought to...
Real earnings have increased only for casual work, economists said at a conference titled тАШMeasuring RecoveryтАЩ. Several economists have termed the Centre for Monitoring Indian EconomyтАЩs (CMIE) claim that the labour market witnessed an...
For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...
┬атАЬIn my entire career as a public servant I haven't witnessed the extraction of public wealth for private profit on the scale that we see todayтАЭ, said Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member, Trinamool Congress,...
As the world recovers from the pandemic, and many across the country are trying to find their feet with gainful employment, a study released early this year by CMIE reveals that agriculture absorbed an additional 11...
The Union Govt has cancelled 1,94,000 defence jobs while keeping one-fourth of the total Govt jobs vacant. It hid data about the vacant posts. We need to look beyond the Agniveers; it's just a...
Replacing regular jobs with short-term contractual ones will not only compromise professionalism in the armed forces and national security, but it will also pose a serious threat to social order already torn asunder by...
Mr Narendra Modi promised 2 crore jobs per year in 2014 itself. Now after 8 years, unemployment has increased in great proportions due to demonetisation, GST, lockdowns, contractualisation of labour and not filling up...
In its reckless privatisation drive, the Government of India (GoI) is┬аselling┬аthe Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to Nandal Finance & Leasing Private Limited, a Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) with a dubious record, owned by a...