Unemployment
A performance audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India of the Modi government’s flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) to provide industry-relevant skill training and certification has found serious lapses in its implementation.
The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General has found 94.53% of beneficiary bank account details across states entered as zeroes, blank or unavailable, an overall placement rate of just 41% and Rs 277.40 crore funds unutilised.
The report also noted lack of objective assessment of market demand for specific job roles and training effort aligned to it, with the overall placement rate at only 41%. It also noted that candidates for skill training were enrolled under the scheme by ignoring their age, education and work experience related specific criteria prescribed in the guidelines/qualification packs.
The audit found delays in release and non-utilisation of funds under the state component, as well as incorrect estimation and delay in transfer of central component funds of Rs 222.63 crore.
09/01/2026
While MGNREGA’s repeal may have been dramatic, over the last decade, the Modi government has moved to systematically weaken the UPA-era law through budget cuts, delay in payments and forced technocracy
As 2025 drew to a close, the Narendra Modi government moved to repeal and replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act. While the repeal of the Act has been met with criticism, a look at the last decade shows the world’s largest guarantee for 100 days of work in rural areas, was systematically weakened – from reducing its budgetary allocations, introducing Aadhaar-based payment systems that resulted in job card deletions and workers exclusion, delays in payments, to finally changing the two-decade-old law itself without any prior consultation.
by Sravasti Dasgupta
31/12/2025
The immense growth in inequality in the neo-liberal period inevitably creates a crisis in the economy, so that even the acceleration in growth rate claimed for this regime does not last long. The regime is characterised by a shift of income from the working people, that is, the workers, the peasants, the agricultural labourers, the petty producers and those employed in the unorganised sectors, towards those sections of the population to whom economic surplus accrues; this shift entails essentially a shift from the poorer segments of the population towards the richer segment. https://scroll.in/article/1088813/prabhat-patnaiks-new-book-tracks-the-impact-of-indias-neoliberal-turn-on-e
the CMIE shows that the number of persons employed has not increased at all over the last five years, which constitutes a grim scenario, though how much of it is because of the pandemic, how much because of the lingering effects of demonetization and GST (which dealt crippling blows to the petty production sector) and how much because of the world capitalist crisis, remains a moot point.
James Rodgers, The Conversation
29/12/2025
In India’s youngest state, the battle for a government job isn’t just about finding a livelihood. It is about finding something even more illusive: honour.
Musallahpur Hat is to Bihar what Kota is to India – it is where students from across the state make their way in droves, seeking teaching and training that helps them ace competitive government recruitment exams. The neighbourhood is a complete ecosystem: this is where aspirants live, this is where they study. Every coaching institute has a branch here; every shop here is attuned to student interest, selling everything from recycled books to filtered water.
And yet, Musallahpur Hat is where it is starkly clear: the story of Bihari youth’s hopes and aspirations starts in these lanes and also ends here. Most aspirants who come here end up without naukri, jobs, and realise that it has also left them bereft of ijjat, honour.
https://thewire.in/politics/in-bihar-the-unending-wait-and-struggles-for-naukriand-ijjat
bt Kunal Purohit
10/11/2025
नौकरी पर जवाबदेही से बचती सरकार, आर्थिक सर्वे में बहानों की भरमार https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-B26FJEoIs
Ravish Kumar Official Jul 23, 2024
आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण में नौकरी और नौकरी के डेटा को लेकर काफी कुछ कहा गया है। इस सर्वे में केंद्र सरकार अपनी जवाबदेही प्राइवेट सेक्टर और राज्यों पर टालती नज़र आ रही है। हमने पड़ताल की है कि कैसे रोज़गार के डेटा को खत्म किया गया और अब कहा जा रहा है कि सही समय पर डेटा होना चाहिए। इन बहानों पर इस रिपोर्ट को देखिए। आर्थिक सर्वे को ख़ुद भी पढ़िए और हिन्दी में मौलिक विचार-विमर्श कीजिए।