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https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/can-green-credits-benefit-indias-forests/article68106159.ece   April 26, 2024 02:24 am Jacob Koshy

https://thewire.in/labour/for-desperate-jobless-indian-youth-war-conflict-zones-abroad-are-no-deterrents 

Unemployment at home pushes thousands of Indians to look overseas for work – even war zones. What’s missing is a coherent policy to protect them.

While illegal outmigration from India is nothing new – one study found that about 725,000 Indians now live illegally in the US – the movement of people to conflict zones reflects potential migrants’ desire to escape desperate conditions at home for a relatively better life elsewhere, even when confronted with human emergencies caused by war.

Indians migrating to Russia and then finding themselves thrown into the conflict as combatants, and hundreds of people in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana states signing up for jobs in Israel, underscore an important point: migrating to conflict zones is considered a better choice to the uncertainties caused by lack of employment at home.

A recent report made two startling claims: one, about 83% of India’s youth grapple with “soaring unemployment”. Second, the proportion of educated youth (15 to 29 years old), with at least secondary level education, among the country’s total unemployed youth jumped from 35.2% in 2002 to 65.7% in 2022.

by Chandan Nandy

26/04/2024

Status of Indian job market: Fact versus fiction  https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/status-of-indian-job-market-fact-versus-fiction-13759450.html  Bibek Debroy There may be concerns about employment, but it is not as disastrous as is often made out to be.. In an informal economy like India, where there are usually no clear employer-employee relationships, unlike in more advanced countries.... At present, both the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) have biases. Agriculture is a different proposition. But even outside of agriculture, neither is comprehensive in coverage. Both can be streamlined and improved, and time lags can be reduced. ..

the RBI’s report based on KLEMS dated October 2022...  “Employment, as measured by workforce participation rates, has been declining in India, especially among rural females.... between 2011 and 2017.” There has been no report after that. But, since 2017–18, there seems to have been a pickup in employment. For manufacturing and services (construction, trade), it is quite visible after 2020–21.

 Prashant Bhishan  talks about the issue of the figures .. https://youtu.be/t4ymo3DdgTk?t=21