Tag: Unemployment

In 2014, India’s young first-time voters played a crucial role in bringing the Bharatiya Janata Party to power at the Centre. Exit polls found that turnout in that election among Indians ages 18 to 25 surpassed that of the general population for the first time – at around 70%.In ...

Job seekers gather to attend a walk-in-interview during a State-level job fair organised by Karnataka in Bengaluru on February 26. | Photo Credit: AFP A recent report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Institute for Human Development (IHD) revealed that two out of every three unemployed ...

New Delhi: Unemployment allowance to beneficiaries through direct benefit transfer (DBT), heavily subsidised cooking gas cylinders, sops for poor women on the lines of Karnataka’s Gruha Lakshmi scheme, and doing away with the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to armed forces — these are some of the promises the Congress ...

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed India's unemployment rate is double compared to Pakistan's and said the situation has been the outcome of the poor financial politics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The Congress scion said the government's policies have resulted in the "destruction of small and medium enterprises ...

A World Bank report released in 2022 points out that the youth unemployment rate in India was at 23.22 per cent, which was higher than its neighbours Pakistan (11.3 per cent) and Bangladesh (12.9 per cent). Updated On - 3 March 2024, 05:22 PM Gwalior: ...

Bhopal: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi finished small businesses with his government's big-ticket decisions like demonetisation and the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST). Addressing a gathering in Madhya Pradesh during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, he said due to Modi's ...

‘35,000 representatives replaced 3 families’*Won’t tolerate any provocation with Army, borders Sanjeev Pargal JAMMU, Feb 28: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said a lot of good things have been happening in Jammu and Kashmir with investments coming, unemployment going and democracy percolating at the grassroots levels with 35,000 ...

In late December, when a chartered flight from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua made a technical stop at Valery Airport in France, French authorities detained the 303 Indian passengers onboard, suspecting they were being trafficked. In fact, the passengers had paid large sums to touts who had promised ...

Learning lessons from history, Modi has avoided a repeat of this strategy, instead promoting inclusive development. Flagship schemes such as distributing 80 million free gas connections to poor households, rural electrification and more than 21 million houses completed in rural areas resonate more than previous elite-centric campaigns.He champions a ...

The NSSO launched PLFS in April 2017. This Bulletin for the quarter ending September 2023 is the twentieth in the series. (Image: PTI)The survey conducted in 22 states, showed that the lowest unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in Gujarat followed by Delhi at 8.4 per cent in the ...