India's employment: The true picture

Results from the Periodic Labour Force Survey are not comparable with the previous Employment-Unemployment Surveys

A sound policy framework requires the support of robust institutions that collect and transmit good data regularly. I am a great believer in robust data being essential in diagnosing the right problem to target and to devise smart solutions for it. In the context of the ongoing debate on India’s employment scenario, we need to make efforts to improve the availability of quality data so that a narrative driven debate can be resolved through objective evidence. Currently, there are three contesting narratives. The first narrative is of jobless growth, which implies that India is creating insufficient jobs. The second is