India’s formal sector employment jumped by 0.2 million in the July-September quarter of 2021 compared to the April-June quarter across 11,503 establishments surveyed, the labour ministry said on Monday. As per the quarterly employment survey for the second quarter of the current fiscal, 31.0 million jobs were created in the country in the given quarter … Read more
In a first for India, the labour bureau under the ministry of labour and employment will conduct five nationwide surveys in five main regional languages along with English and Hindi, aimed at significantly reducing data inaccuracies in the past on the back of translation of responses in regional languages for data computation. These household surveys, … Read more
Expenditure on food consumption by industrial workers has fallen significantly in 15 years from 45% to 36% with corresponding increase on non-food items, largely health, education and transportation, shows the labour bureau’s revised consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW) with base year changed to 2016 as against 2001 now. The index, with revised base … Read more