Rampant unemployment prevailing in India - ILO report says.

The ILO report has revealed that, rampant unemployment is prevailing among youth in India. Unemployment among the youth in India, with secondary or higher education has doubled from the 2000 to 2022. This data is contained in the India Employment Report 2024, released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). According to this report, 35.2% of youth in the above mentioned category were unemployed in the year 2000. This has increased to 65.7% in 2022. It may be recollected here that, 48 lakh candidates applied for 60,244 police constable vacancies in Uttar Pradesh. All these data speak volumes about the rampant unemployment prevailing in India.  

[ Source: The Hindu dt.27-03-2024]