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NSSO survey shows India’s progress on UN's Sustainable Development Goals

95.7% people were living with an improved drinking water source in the MIS. (HT Archive)
india news
Updated on Mar 08, 2023 06:45 am IST

Urban unemployment rate falls to 7.2% in October-December 2022: Report

The 17th Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) found that the UR for people aged 15 and above in urban areas stood at 7.6% from April-June in 2022. (HT)
business
Published on Feb 25, 2023 12:29 pm IST

Kota man deletes NSSO surveyor’s app for data collection; arrested

A man was arrested in Rajasthan’s Kota on Wednesday for allegedly deleting the mobile app of a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) surveyor.
india news
Published on Jan 22, 2020 07:34 pm IST

HT Editorial| In defence of affordable education, for all

If India seeks to become a knowledge economy, enjoy the fruits of demographic dividend, and create aware citizens, it will need to make education accessible to more people
editorials
Published on Jan 12, 2020 07:34 pm IST

Reviving faith in India’s statistics

It is time to give statutory status to the National Statistical Commission
columns
Published on Nov 20, 2019 07:18 pm IST

India’s villages have more capital intensive factories

Sonaji Jamdade, a farmer of Rajuri Navgan village checks millet crop in Beed, India.
india news
Updated on Sept 25, 2019 03:14 am IST

Prayagraj’s unemployment rate highest in country, 1.5 lakh unemployed in govt records

The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) in its recent report had listed the rate of unemployment in 45 cities that have a million or more residents.
education
Updated on Sept 04, 2019 02:13 pm IST

Use statistics to shape stimulus

Even if the CES findings show a bad picture, holding them back would only delay a coordinated response to the present slowdown
editorials
Published on Aug 19, 2019 09:08 pm IST

How to revive job growth in the country

Between 2004-05 and 2011-12, about five million workers per annum left agriculture for non-farm sector jobs. Among these five million, about four (75%) were youth (15 to 29 years). This was a good news because it tightened the rural labour market, which resulted in real wages rising (it had been stagnant between 1996 and 2004 because of a rising number of workers in agriculture)
analysis
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 05:02 pm IST

Job creation across sectors a key focus area of budget

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budget
Updated on Jul 05, 2019 11:54 pm IST

Swaraj India to contest assembly polls in Haryana

On the issue of increased liquor consumption in the state, Yadav said they are against blanket ban on liquor consumption.
gurugram news
Published on Jun 28, 2019 03:44 am IST

India must strengthen the credibility of its national statistical system

The first step has been taken by the government by releasing the employment data for 2017-18 and providing free access to household level data. The country will watch with hope and anxiety the subsequent steps to strengthen the independence and credibility of national statistical system
analysis
Published on Jun 24, 2019 08:30 pm IST

We must quantify the value of women’s unpaid work

While policy makers debate on how to integrate the informal into the formal economy, one important dimension has gone largely ignored: unpaid household work by women
analysis
Updated on Jun 23, 2019 07:43 pm IST

Waning women at work

One of the major findings of the PLFS is that the already existing trend of women withdrawing themselves from the workforce has intensified.
opinion
Updated on Jun 09, 2019 09:36 am IST

‘Double whammy’: Congress targets govt over jobs crisis, losing trade status

Congress on Saturday said the US government’s decision to terminate special trade status for India will have adverse consequences on exports.
india news
Updated on Jun 01, 2019 05:51 pm IST

GDP calculation: Data gaps will be resolved, says govt

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has downplayed the controversy around India’s gross domestic product (GDP) data after a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report raised serious questions on the quality of the MCA-21 database, which is used in India’s GDP calculations, triggering political accusations of data manipulation.
india news
Published on May 09, 2019 05:07 am IST

‘I have come here to bring about a change’: Urmila Matondkar

Congress North Mumbai candidate and Bollywood actor Urmila Matondkar waves at party supporters during her election campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, at Kandivali in Mumbai, April 20, 2019.
lok sabha election 2019
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 07:10 am IST

CII survey claims MSMEs created 14% more jobs in last years

The findings are contrary to the official and other industry data which show that there was massive job losses since the the note-bank and GST implementation in this very sector.
business
Updated on Mar 08, 2019 05:50 pm IST

Urban employment guarantee scheme signifies India’s failure to address inequality

The basic premise of a healthy rural to urban economic transformation is to transfer workers from low-skill and low-productivity professions to high-skill jobs. It would be extremely difficult if not impossible for an urban employment guarantee scheme to ensure this.
editorials
Updated on Mar 05, 2019 09:58 am IST

The road to social protection, beyond jobs

The changing nature of work is upending traditional employment globally, and with it, social protection systems.
india news
Updated on Feb 20, 2019 05:44 pm IST

There is no clear picture on unemployment in India

So do we have a real and growing hunger for jobs?
columns
Published on Feb 09, 2019 07:24 pm IST

After five extensions, OBC panel to miss deadline again

The panel was set up in 2017 to look into an “equitable distribution” of OBC reservation benefits.
india news
Published on Feb 06, 2019 11:44 pm IST

Rs 6,000 is 6% of a small farmer’s annual income, according to NSSO data

The interim budget 2019-20 announced annual income support of Rs 6,000 to all farmer families with land ownership up to two hectares under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN).
india news
Updated on Feb 06, 2019 09:08 am IST

Budget: OBC farmers may benefit most from Centre’s agriculture scheme

An HT analysis of a 2013 National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report on Household Ownership and Operational Holdings in India shows that farmers from the Other Backward Class (OBC) category could be the biggest beneficiaries of this scheme.
budget
Published on Feb 02, 2019 02:56 pm IST

As job debate rages, many questions still unanswered

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant (R) and vice chairman Rajiv Kumar at the press conference on Thursday.
india news
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 07:41 am IST

Opinion | In NSSO jobs data row, an apples to oranges comparison

The data is significant because this was the first comprehensive assessment of the employment situation conducted after Modi’s decision in November 2016 to withdraw most of the country’s banknotes from circulation overnight
opinion
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 08:41 pm IST

Report claiming 45-year high in unemployment not verified: Niti Aayog

NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar speaks to the media in New Delhi on Thursday.
india news
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 07:29 pm IST

NSSO jobs report: The NDA government has scored a self goal

On January 31, Business Standard published summary findings from the NSSO report. Unemployment rate in 2017-18 was 6.1%, the highest in 45 years, the NSSO report shows.
editorials
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 06:34 pm IST

Members never discussed concerns, says govt over National Statistical Commission resignations

Chairman PC Mohanan and external member J Meenakshi of the National Statistical Commission resigned, leaving it without any external member.
india news
Published on Jan 30, 2019 11:00 pm IST

After exits from statistics body, govt clarifies on job report, GDP data

Acting chairman PC Mohanan and external member J Meenakshi both had terms lasting until June 20 next year, according to the website of the NSC.
india news
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 03:57 pm IST
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