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Unemployment Rate Declines to 6.8% in Jan-Mar Quarter According to PLFS
May 30, 2023
The Periodic Labour Force Survey for the January-March quarter of 2023 has revealed that the all India unempolyment rate has declined to 6.8 percent from 8.2 percent in the same quarter a year ago. The unemployment rate for males stood at 6 percent in Jan-Mar...
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Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Sales of scooters (including electric scooters) increased by a handsome 7 per cent in April 2023. Motorcycle sales grew modestly, by 2.9 per cent, while moped sales fell by 7 per cent in April 2023. Total two-wheeler sales in April 2023...
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Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Employment generation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) increased by a handsome 28.8 per cent to 277.5 million person days in April 2023. This growth was higher than the 5.6 per cent increase recorded in the previous...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Poonam Gond is learning to describe her pain by numbers. Zero means no pain and 10 is agony. Poonam was at seven late last month. "I have never known zero pain," she said, sitting in the plastic chair where she spends most of...
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Quartz India Easing global commodity prices have begun to reflect on inflation in India, at both the wholesale and consumer levels. Wholesale price rise in April fell into negative territory for the first time since July 2020, to -0.92%, government data showed yesterday (May 15). It stood...
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