Our crisis of urban unemployment has hit the formal sector, which has been shedding jobs, and now seems set to worsen. We need a tax credit scheme as a safety net for India’s better-off A crisis of formal sector unemployment in urban India seems set to sharpen over the months ahead.
According to a tracker run by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) that offers a daily average of the past 30 days’ numbers for trend analysis, the country saw overall joblessness spike in cities after the lockdown began.
Since then, job deprivation has weighed upon every fourth urban-dweller, by CMIE data, and this high rate of joblessness seems to have risen slightly over May.