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The country’s unemployment rate stood at a 45-year-high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, according to the National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey.
According to the report, accessed by Business Standard , is at the centre of a controversy after two National Statistical Commission members, including acting chairman, resigned on Monday, alleging that the government had withheld its release.
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According to the report, the unemployment rate was at its highest level since 1972-73.
The report reveals in 2011-12, the unemployment rate stood at 2.2 per cent and youth unemployment is at “astronomically high” levels of 13 to 27 per cent.
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