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Maharashtra’s unemployment issue: An increase in Maharashtra’s August unemployment rate is threatening the revival of its Covid-hit economy, according to a government report. It further stated that unemployment rate had climbed from 3.9 per cent in July to 6.2 per cent in August. The latest uptick in unemployment, according to a presentation made to the state’s CM, was due to imposition of micro lockdowns in several parts of the state, the loss of work under MGNREGS and the end of kharif sowing season. Further, many ministers in the state voiced their opposition to micro lockdowns. The state’s fiscal managers are