Report on joblessness not final: Niti Aayog

  • | Friday | 1st February, 2019

New Delhi: Reacting to media leakage of the National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey showing India’s unemployment rate at a 45-year high of 6.1% in 2017-18, the Niti Aayog on Thursday described it as a draft report yet to be finalised and jobs data was still being processed on the basis of correct methodologyThe delay in its release of the report led to two National Statistical Commission (NSC) members, including the acting chairman, resigning from their posts earlier this week alleging the government had withheld the release despite approval by the NSC.The release of a report supposedly showing that the country’s unemployment rate is at its highest since 1972-73 can certainly be an embarrassment for the Modi government.Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar said the new survey is being prepared with a different methodology and it would be incorrect to make comparison with the 2012-13 data when the survey was done once in 5 years and the sample sizes were smaller.

New Delhi: Reacting to media leakage of the National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey showing India’s unemployment rate at a 45-year high of 6.1% in 2017-18, the Niti Aayog on Thursday described it as a draft report yet to be finalised and jobs data was still being processed on the basis of correct methodologyThe delay in its release of the report led to two National Statistical Commission (NSC) members, including the acting chairman, resigning from their posts earlier this week alleging the government had withheld the release despite approval by the NSC.The release of a report supposedly showing that the country’s unemployment rate is at its highest since 1972-73 can certainly be an embarrassment for the Modi government.Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar said the new survey is being prepared with a different methodology and it would be incorrect to make comparison with the 2012-13 data when the survey was done once in 5 years and the sample sizes were smaller. ians

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