Signaling a marginal enchancment within the job market, the city unemployment charge fell under the pre-pandemic stage for the primary time within the October-December, 2021 interval at 8.8%, in response to the newest quarterly periodic labour drive survey (PLFS) information launched by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI).
In January-March quarter which instantly preceded the pandemic, the city joblessness charge was 9.1%, but it surely jumped to 21.2% within the subsequent quarter which noticed the primary wave of the pandemic and the ensuing nation-wide lockdown. The speed has since come down by way of the tempo was not regular. The second Covid tempo led to a brief spike within the charge.
Nevertheless, regardless of the autumn in city unemployment charge within the October-December 2021, 9 of the 21 states surveyed within the newest spherical of PLFS had double-digit unemployment charge of their city areas. The best charge was in Uttarakhand at 15.5%. Within the July-September 2021 interval, 11 states had double-digit unemployment charge of their city areas.
City unemployment charge within the January-March quarter of the present 12 months might need come down a bit additional going by the findings of the Middle for Monitoring of Indian Economic system (CMIE). Although CMIE information shouldn’t be strictly comparable with PLFS end result, city unemployment charge, in response to CMIE, fell to eight.14% in January, 7.57% in February and eight.28% in March in contrast with 7.37% in October, 8.2% in November and 9.3% in December.
The most recent PLFS report, nevertheless, confirmed that feminine unemployment charge in city areas remained in double digits for eight quarters by way of October-December 2021. By the way, the speed was 10.5% within the pre-pandemic January-March, 2020 quarter. Unemployment charge for males, nevertheless, fell to eight.3% within the October-December 2021 quarter, the bottom in two years.
