Growth without jobs risks India squandering its demographic dividend, economist Santosh Mehrotra said at the launch of his book ‘India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story’.
Expectations need recalibration. Students equate degrees with employability, employers expect instant productivity, policymakers push curriculum mandates — all reinforce a flawed assumption.
Digital Labour Chowk is part of a lineup of tech platforms that are trying to move manual labour hiring out of streets and into the world of algorithms and apps. ‘Over 10,000 companies hiring.’
While addressing Semicon India 2024, PM Narendra Modi says India's favourable policies have helped attract investments more than Rs 1.5 trillion in this sector.
A growing brigade of young Indians is trading military and govt job dreams for a steady paycheck as private guards. For many, it’s better than working for Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon.
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.
World Bank President Ajay Banga recently said the key to India's growth story is through more jobs as he outlined the opportunity to cash in on the ‘China Plus One’ strategy.
India's unemployment rate in April rose for the fourth month in a row to 8.11%, from 7.8% in the previous month, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.
Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange
The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.
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