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Unemployment rate shoots up to 8% in April
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 May, 2021
As the severe second wave of Covid-19 and the resultant lockdowns bring
economic activities to a halt, India's job scenario worsened in April
2021.
As per data published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian
Economy (CMIE), India's unemployment rate rose 8 per cent in April,
against 6.5 per cent in March.
"April 2021 turned out to be worse
than expectations. We had expected labour participation rate to
stabilise at its March 2021 level. The LPR had dropped sharply in March
already after a modest fall in February. But, the LPR fell for a third
consecutive month in April," CMIE's CEO Mahesh Vyas said.
It fell
to 39.98 per cent -- the lowest LPR since May 2020, the month of a
stringent nation-wide lockdown. The LPR in April 2021 is therefore the
worst since the national lockdown, the CMIE said.
It attributed
this fall is the result of the local lockdowns in several states. In
Maharashtra, a state that imposed partial lockdowns, saw its LPR fall
sharply from 44.2 per cent in March to 40.6 per cent in April.
The
labour force shrank by 1.1 million in April 2021 to 424.6 million
compared to 425.8 million in March. In spite of this smaller labour
force looking for employment, a greater proportion failed to find
employment.
The employment rate fell from 37.6 per cent in March to 36.8 per cent in April.
Vyas
noted that the lockdowns could have denied people from seeking
employment and caused a fall in labour participation, but, the economy
also could not provide adequate jobs to those who sought jobs.
"So,
the strain in the labour markets was not entirely because of the
partial lockdowns. It was largely because the economy simply could not
provide employment to large numbers who sought work," he added.
While
the labour force shrank by 1.1 million in April, the count of the
employed fell by a much larger 7.35 million, as per CMIE data.
It
noted that salaried job losses were disproportionately located in rural
India. While urban salaried jobs accounted for 58 per cent of total
salaried jobs in 2019-20, they accounted for only 32 per cent of the job
losses till April 2021.
Rural salaried jobs that accounted for 42 per cent of the total, on the other hand, accounted for 68 per cent of losses.
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