Employment increases in rural India

In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India also but not as much as they did in rural India

The sharp and sudden increase in employment in September 2021 was largely a rural story. In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India, too, but not as much as they did in rural India.

Labour participation increased from 40.52 per cent in August to 40.66 per cent in September. This 0.14 percentage point rise was concentrated in rural India where the labour participation rate (LPR) increased by 0.20 percentage points. This is a much bigger increase than seen in urban India where the LPR increased by a much