Govt needs to re-establish GDP, job data credibility: Former data chief

Mohanan, 63, has been a government statistician for over 30 years and was a member of the NSC since June 2017 till his resignation

“There is no such report,” said India’s energy minister Dharmendra Pradhan on April 12, 2019, about a leaked National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report that said unemployment in India was at a 45-year high.

Five million men lost their jobs between 2016 and 2018, according to the 2019 State of Working India report by Azim Premji University.

P C Mohanan, former acting chairman of the organisation that approved the report, has now told us: “The National Statistical Commission (NSC) approved this report, it is reflected in its minutes of the meeting.