Jobs, while they increased by 11.2 crore during the Modi years, are the Achilles’ heel of India’s development as labour participation remains low and the informal sector dominates.
Parliament security breach and Nicaragua-bound flight’s grounding in France didn’t trigger the debate on youth restlessness triggered by a brewing unemployment crisis.
The big capex push will not only create productive assets, but also more jobs. This, in turn, will create sustainable demand as well as crowd in private investment and push growth.
While UP’s unemployed are angry, Yogi’s call for a choice between Jinnah and Sardar Patel, more than seven decades after they both died, is the new ‘let them eat cake’.
A 2021 global survey found that 54% of employees would consider leaving their job if they were not afforded some form of flexibility in where and when they work.
The resignations appear to be a sequel to the supply chain crisis that we are facing. Disruption in labour, especially skilled labour, takes a long time to fix, writes Jyoti Lahiri.
The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana was launched in 2015 under Skill India Mission. While the Centre claims more than 80% candidates have been certified, in UP many wait certificates and jobs.
Voters across Singur, Howrah, Hooghly in West Bengal have one demand — jobs. They, however, also say Mamata Banerjee govt has fared far better than the Left Front in the last 10 years.
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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