Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) Released Data of Unemployment rate in Aug 2020
- Haryana at the top in the rate of unemployment, says CMIE data
- Karnataka has the lowest unemployment rate
- National Unemployment rate is 8.35%, Where Urban and Rural have 9.83 and 7.65 resp.
CMIE - Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy published the unemployment data of Aug 2020. Haryana (33.5%), Tripura(27.9%) and Rajasthan (17.5%) are on top of the list, Whereas Karnataka (0.5%), Odisha (1.4%) and Gujarat (1.9%) are on the bottom of the list. Read Also: NCRB Report 2020 on Farm Suicide
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|
State |
Unemployment
Rate (in %) |
|
Karnataka |
0.5 |
|
Odisha |
1.4 |
|
Gujarat |
1.9 |
|
Tamil
Nadu |
2.6 |
|
Meghalaya |
3.7 |
|
Madhya
Pradesh |
4.7 |
|
Puducherry |
5 |
|
Assam |
5.5 |
|
Chhattisgarh |
5.6 |
|
Telangana |
5.8 |
|
Uttar
Pradesh |
5.8 |
|
Maharashtra |
6.2 |
|
Andhra
Pradesh |
7 |
|
Jharkhand |
9.8 |
|
Kerala |
11 |
|
Punjab |
11 |
|
Jammu
& Kashmir |
11.1 |
|
Sikkim |
12.5 |
|
Bihar |
13.4 |
|
Delhi |
13.8 |
|
Uttarakhand |
14.3 |
|
West
Bengal |
14.9 |
|
Himachal
Pradesh |
15.8 |
|
Goa |
16.2 |
|
Rajasthan |
17.5 |
|
Tripura |
27.9 |
|
Haryana |
33.5 |
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About 21 million salaried employees lost their jobs during
April-August, with about 3.3 million jobs being lost in August and 4.8 million
in July, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said. The job losses
are not only confined to only the support staff among salaried employees but
also includes industrial workers and white-collar workers, it said. Read Also: Why Farmers of Punjab & Haryana Protest?
Salaried jobs in August came down to 65 million from 86
million in the country in the full year of 2019-20. “The deficit of 21 million
jobs is the biggest among all types of employment. About 4.8 million salaried
jobs were lost in July and then in August, another 3.3 million jobs were gone,”
the CMIE said.
As per the monthly CMIE data, the unemployment rate of the country rose to 8.35 per cent in August from 7.40 per cent in the previous month. The urban unemployment rate inched higher to 9.83 per cent in August from 9.37 per cent seen in the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate increased to 7.65 per cent in August from 6.51 per cent in the month-ago period, the CMIE data showed.
Farming has been the last resort for people who lost jobs during the lockdown, with employment in farming rising by 14 million by August as against 111 million employees during 2019-20. Employment as entrepreneurs had declined earlier in the lockdown but by August, it increased by nearly 7 million from 78 million, the CMIE said.
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