India Employment Figures

Labour officials Foxconn's factory near Chennai on Monday and questioned spoke to company directors and human resources about the company's hiring practices, according to an official. The major Apple supplier has been rejecting married women from iPhone assembly jobs, according to a Reuters report.

India needs to create more jobs. A realistic figure might be closer to 8 million jobs per year considering the current economic growth rate.

Congress's Shashi Tharoor today criticised the Union budget today, saying it failed to address the current "high debt, low employment, high food inflation" and accused the government of presenting dubious figures to back their claims on poverty.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said unemployment figures cited by the NITI Aayog for the coastal state were inaccurate as several persons registered with the local employment exchange had not cancelled their names after getting jobs.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are among twelve Indian institutions which have figured in the top 500 universities in QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 announced on Thursday.

Tourism has been knocked out cold by COVID-19. It will be among the last industries to recover. People will regain full confidence to travel only when a vaccine is developed, and the impact can be imagined.Tourism accounts for nearly 10 per cent of India's GDP and employs 12.75 per cent of our workforce (2019-20 figures). A Business of Travel Trade...

Within this previously unreported figure, car and motorcycle makers have laid off 15,000 and component manufacturers 1,00,000, with the remaining job losses at dealers, many of which have closed, the industry source said.

The growth in addition in January was 131 per cent compared with 3.87 lakh in the corresponding period a year ago, according to the EPFO data. The net EPFO enrolment in January 2019 stood at 8,96,516 - the highest since September 2017.

Noted economist Kaushik Basu Saturday urged the government to make available "employment data" even if it is "critical" so that corrective action could be taken.

More than 18 million jobs were generated by India's formal sector in a 15-month period starting September 2017, a study based on payroll data of retirement fund body EPFO, PFRDA and Employees'' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) shows.

Calling the opposition claims on rising unemployment a "political gimmick", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that over 70 lakh jobs were created in the formal sector alone, in the last one year.

In 2016 technology professionals from India accounted for 74.2 per cent of the total number of H-1B visas issued by the US and the next year the figure increased to 75.6 per cent, a government report said here today.

For the second time in a row, IIT-Kharagpur has been ranked as the top institution in the country by QS Employability Ranking, with IIT-Bombay also figuring in the list of top 100 universities in the world.

Employers around the world are concerned about finding and retaining skilled talent with 34 per cent of employers in India saying talent shortage is a concern, while for China the figure stood at 47 per cent.

When it comes to companies making a wrong choice in hiring an employee, India figures among the top-four countries worldwide and the cost of one single bad recruitment could be over Rs 20 lakh, says a survey.

Labour officials Foxconn's factory near Chennai on Monday and questioned spoke to company directors and human resources about the company's hiring practices, according to an official. The major Apple supplier has been rejecting married women from iPhone assembly jobs, according to a Reuters report.

India needs to create more jobs. A realistic figure might be closer to 8 million jobs per year considering the current economic growth rate.

Congress's Shashi Tharoor today criticised the Union budget today, saying it failed to address the current "high debt, low employment, high food inflation" and accused the government of presenting dubious figures to back their claims on poverty.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said unemployment figures cited by the NITI Aayog for the coastal state were inaccurate as several persons registered with the local employment exchange had not cancelled their names after getting jobs.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are among twelve Indian institutions which have figured in the top 500 universities in QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 announced on Thursday.

Tourism has been knocked out cold by COVID-19. It will be among the last industries to recover. People will regain full confidence to travel only when a vaccine is developed, and the impact can be imagined.Tourism accounts for nearly 10 per cent of India's GDP and employs 12.75 per cent of our workforce (2019-20 figures). A Business of Travel Trade...

Within this previously unreported figure, car and motorcycle makers have laid off 15,000 and component manufacturers 1,00,000, with the remaining job losses at dealers, many of which have closed, the industry source said.

The growth in addition in January was 131 per cent compared with 3.87 lakh in the corresponding period a year ago, according to the EPFO data. The net EPFO enrolment in January 2019 stood at 8,96,516 - the highest since September 2017.

Noted economist Kaushik Basu Saturday urged the government to make available "employment data" even if it is "critical" so that corrective action could be taken.

More than 18 million jobs were generated by India's formal sector in a 15-month period starting September 2017, a study based on payroll data of retirement fund body EPFO, PFRDA and Employees'' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) shows.

Calling the opposition claims on rising unemployment a "political gimmick", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that over 70 lakh jobs were created in the formal sector alone, in the last one year.

In 2016 technology professionals from India accounted for 74.2 per cent of the total number of H-1B visas issued by the US and the next year the figure increased to 75.6 per cent, a government report said here today.

For the second time in a row, IIT-Kharagpur has been ranked as the top institution in the country by QS Employability Ranking, with IIT-Bombay also figuring in the list of top 100 universities in the world.

Employers around the world are concerned about finding and retaining skilled talent with 34 per cent of employers in India saying talent shortage is a concern, while for China the figure stood at 47 per cent.

When it comes to companies making a wrong choice in hiring an employee, India figures among the top-four countries worldwide and the cost of one single bad recruitment could be over Rs 20 lakh, says a survey.