By Venkatanarayana Motkuri Telangana, once considered an educationally backward region, is now a progressive State in the same domain. Almost all of its 6-14 years-age children are attending schools, near universalisation. My estimate based on the unit-record data of the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS-III) 2019-20 shows nearly 99.5% of the children in the […]
By Surajit Das The National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Government of India released a press statement on March 14 on the unemployment rate. According to the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) data, the unemployment rate stood at 13.4% in urban areas in the financial year 2020-21. Female unemployment rate was over 15% and for […]