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How Nss Missed Voluntary Unemployment

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In a bid to deflect criticism over the rising unemployment statistics in the decade of reforms, official figures are expected to be reclassified using a new category that splits the ranks of the unemployed.

While the task force on unemployment is expected to show that the employment scene in the country has not deteriorated in the 1990s, the results of the latest 55th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS) show that it has indeed gone up by 2-3 per cent, as per the

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First Published: May 29 2001 | 12:00 AM IST

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