Millions Waiting: One Exam for the Promised Jobs
In 2020, PM Narendra Modi promised a common eligibility exam to hire young Indians for jobs in the Union government. Four years later, the youth are still waiting.
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In 2020, PM Narendra Modi promised a common eligibility exam to hire young Indians for jobs in the Union government. Four years later, the youth are still waiting.
The book also details the behind-the-scenes events at the height of the stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh in 2020.
Highly qualified candidates seeking low-level jobs, reduced wages, lower real incomes, worsening quality of employment, millions moving from salaried jobs to casual work—many things disguise unemployment in India.
Business models of companies reveal precarious working conditions and exploitation of employees.
Instead of reaping its demographic dividend, India is staring at three categories of joblessness.
The government claims that India is on its way to becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world. It has based these claims on manipulative use of data to project a rosy picture. But there are other data sets that run contrary to the government’s claims, ones the govt doesn’t talk about.
Replying to a question in the Parliament, the government stated that between 2014 and 2022, the Central government recruited 7.22 lakh persons, while 9.79 lakh posts were still vacant.
States like Delhi (despite its unique multi-party governance architecture), West Bengal, Kerala (or even Goa and Sikkim) perform better compared to UP when it comes to being measured for securing access to basic social, economic services.
The deeper reasons behind the Sri Lankan crisis are Sinhalese Buddhist majoritarianism, authoritarianism of the Gotabaya regime, violent targeting of minorities, brutal methods adopted to curb press freedom and deliberate curbing of the culture of scrutiny of public policies.
Most of the job losses were in agriculture, but 25 lakh salaried jobs were also lost.
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