Leverage its demographic dividend

The much awaited results of the 66th NSSO quinquennial round of the Employment-Unemployment survey are out. The initial reactions to the results of the survey have been quite extreme. One set of reactions has turned the spotlight on employment generation and has criticised the slowdown in the work force growth rate in the 2004-05 to 2009-10 period as being indicative of policy failure. The other set of reactions has questioned the methodology of data collection for the survey, stating that the informal sector employment, especially for females, has not been captured.

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