Unemployment rate at four-decade high: NSSO survey compared past figures

A former chairman of the NSC, said on condition of anonymity, that the report once approved by the NSC is the final version

The National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) latest jobs survey has compared the unemployment figures for 2017-18 with its past surveys since 1972-73. 

Though NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said at a press conference on Thursday that the survey “is not finalised and is at a draft stage” and that the NSSO’s past surveys cannot be compared with its latest one conducted in 2017-18, the National Statistical Commission (NSC)’s acting chairman and a member had resigned from their post on Monday, alleging that the government has withheld the release of the NSSO’s jobs survey after its approval. 

In fact, a standing committee on