NEW DELHI: India's unemployment rate has tapered to a five-week low in the week ended 26 April as the country eased the lockdown in patches and rural economy reopened gradually to salvage the harvesting season.
According to the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy (CMIE), unemployment rate in India fell to 21.05% in week ended 26 April from the previous high of 26.19% reported in the week to 19 April.
The rural economy that deploys a lion's share of work-force also saw a fall in unemployment rate to 20.88% in joblessness rate during the same period.
This is also for the first time since the first week of April that the rural unemployment figures showed a degrowth. Though the numbers are still not very comforting for any economy, the