As per a new employment-unemployment survey conducted by the Labour Bureau, joblessness in India is currently running at a five year high of 5 per cent of the 15 plus years work force. The report said that over a third of the working people are employed for less than a year and 68 per cent of households are earning up to only to Rs 10,000 per month.
Over 780,000 people in 160,000 households were surveyed across the country, between April and December 2015. Expectedly, urban areas continue to provide more and better paying jobs compared with the rural areas. While 82 per cent of job seekers get year round jobs in urban areas, just 53 per cent of rural job seekers manage to get such security. About 42 per cent of workers in rural areas work for less than 12 months in a year, a result of dependence on the seasonal agriculture work. This means, 77 per cent of the rural households have an average monthly income of less than Rs 10,000. In urban areas, about half the households earn between Rs 10,000 and Rs 50,000 per month.
The report shows that the situation on the ground continues to effectively be the same after Modi's government came in power in June 2014, as it was when the UPA's was under effect.
