The objectives of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) are: * to estimate the key employment and unemployment indicators (viz. Worker Population Ratio, Labour Force Participation Rate, Unemployment Rate) in the short time interval of three months for the urban areas only in the Current Weekly Status (CWS). * to estimate employment and unemployment indicators in…
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Please click here to access the Standing Committee Report on Rural Development: Demand for Grants (2021-22), Thirteenth Report, presented to the Lok Sabha on 9th March, 2021 and laid in the Rajya Sabha on 9th March, 2021, Seventeenth Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Ministry of Rural Development. Demands for Grants (2021-22) of the Department of Rural Development(under Ministry…
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The report (please click here to access) entitled Lessons for Social Protection from the COVID-19 Lockdowns Report 1 of 2: State Relief (released in February, 2021) seeks to use COVID-19 and its attendant lockdowns in India as a crucial moment to assess the protective aspect of social protection, asking three interrelated questions: First, what do the immediate relief measures…
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Please click here, here and here to access the key findings of the report entitled Workers in the Times of COVID-19 (first round) by ActionAid India (released 13th August, 2020). —The Annual Report is based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by National Statistical Office (NSO) from July 2018 to June 2019. The survey was spread over 12,720 first…
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Domestic Workers Sector Skill Council (DWSSC) — a not-for-profit company that works under the ambit of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — has done a survey during the COVID-19 lockdown in India. DWSSC did a random sample survey among 200 workers spread across eight states -– Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and…
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Please click here, here and here to access the key findings of the study entitled Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture and Food Security in India (released on 20th May, 2020), which has been done by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA, Hyderabad), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI, New Delhi), and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (Boston). —…
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The Annual Report is based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by NSSO from July 2017 to June 2018. The survey was spread over 12,773 first stage units viz. FSUs (7,014 villages and 5,759 urban blocks) covering 1,02,113 households (56,108 in rural areas and 46,005 in urban areas) and enumerating 4,33,339 persons (2,46,809…
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As per the report entitled State of Working India 2019 (please click here to access), which has been prepared by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University: • In the present report an update on the jobs situation for the period between 2016 and 2018 is presented along with some ideas for employment generation. • The first few months…
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The key findings of the report entitled State of Working India 2018 (please click here to access), which has been produced by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, are as follows: • In the 1970s and 1980s, when GDP growth was around 3-4 percent, employment growth was around 2 percent per annum. Since the 1990s, and particularly in…
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