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Bengaluru Prasanna Kumar, a resident of Davanagere in central Karnataka who completed his Commerce degree eight months ago and is still searching for a job, receives a ₹3,000 allowance as a beneficiary under the Yuva Nidhi scheme for the last four months. “While the money I am receiving may not be enough to sustain me…
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FILE PHOTO: Job seekers line up for interviews at a job fair in Chinchwad, India. Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The Union Labour Ministry questioned the findings of a report prepared by the United States-based banking giant Citigroup and said the group failed to account for the “comprehensive and positive…
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Job seekers at attend Aspire 2024 jointly organised by District Employment office and Vocational Higher Secondary Department at SRV Government Vocational Higher Secondary School in the city on Saturday. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT United States-headquartered multinational banking group Citi has said India’s unemployment challenge is multi-faceted one and even 7% GDP growth might not…
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Former NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar. File | Photo Credit: BIJOY GHOSH Prime Minister Narendra Modi led-NDA government in its third term must tackle the problem of unemployment in India, especially in the unorganised sector and in small and medium enterprises, former NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on June 10. Mr. Kumar also…
The share of workers with regular wage increased since 2004, with the country creating three million regular jobs annually till 2017 and five million jobs between 2017 and 2019, according to “State of Working India 2023: Social Identities and Labour Market Outcomes”, a report prepared by a group of economists and researchers with the Azim…
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