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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicJob creation

Topic: Job creation

India’s job crisis is real, needs quick intervention, research firm CMIE says

More than half of the 900 million Indians of legal working age don’t want a job, according to CMIE. Between 2017 and 2022, the overall labor participation rate dropped from 46% to 40%.

Reduce stake in PSU banks to 50%, provide job incentives to firms — CII’s wishlist for Budget

The industry body headed by Uday Kotak has made the suggestions to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as part of pre-Budget consultations

Modi govt announces Rs 2.6 lakh cr stimulus package ahead of Diwali to boost jobs, housing

New measures include Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana and tripling allocation for PM’s housing scheme. India’s overall Covid economic package is Rs 30 lakh cr.

Double-digit growth but high unemployment — challenge before Nitish Kumar’s new Bihar govt

Tejashwi Yadav's RJD offered 10 lakh new jobs, while Nitish’s ally BJP offered 19 lakh. Here’s how victorious NDA can set about fixing the problem.

Farming GM crops, employment fund — what govt panel has suggested to create 20 cr jobs in 5 yrs

A Working Group of Ministers on employment generation and skill development submitted its report to PM Modi, making 63 suggestions across 18 sectors for job creation.

India added 7 crore jobs in June — mostly daily wagers, farmers and small businesses

About 12 crore jobs were lost due to the lockdown in April, but things are gradually improving. However, only 39 lakh new salaried jobs have been created.

No jobs data from Niti Aayog for now, numbers expected only after Lok Sabha polls

Niti Aayog had promised to release the final statistics on jobs after a leaked NSSO report pegged unemployment at a 45-year high.

Job plan is missing link in Modi govt’s last budget amid drama over data

Much of the interim budget focused on consumer stimulus with few specific measures to create opportunities for about 12 million young Indians who enter the job market each year.

What a bra & panty business park near Visakhapatnam can teach Modi about job creation

The park is a textbook case on how clustering can make smaller companies competitive and more productive, and enable them to generate employment.

Vajpayee created 60 million jobs in 5 years, whereas Modi has just been creative with data

Modi's claims that there exist three lakh village-level entrepreneurs have not been backed up by any data.

On Camera

Bihar beyond Buddha and Mandal—why the 2025 polls are critical for Indian democracy

It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into UP should not be ignored.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.