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Business News/ News / India/  SBI warns India creating fewer jobs across govt and low-paying sectors
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SBI warns India creating fewer jobs across govt and low-paying sectors

Poor job creation risks worsening the highest unemployment rate in 45 years and build pressure on PM Modi’s government
  • India is officially forecast to expand 5% this financial year, stronger than SBI’s prediction of 4.6%.
  • The drop in informal jobscan be linked back to Modi’s November 2016 decision to overnight invalidate 86% of the country’s currency, (HT)Premium
    The drop in informal jobscan be linked back to Modi’s November 2016 decision to overnight invalidate 86% of the country’s currency, (HT)

    MUMBAI : India will create at least 1.6 million fewer formal jobs across government and low-paying sectors, State Bank of India estimates, a segment that typically absorbs some of the millions of youth entering the world’s biggest workforce each year.

    There’s also evidence that people who migrate within the country for employment are sending less money home to some of the poorest states, Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economic adviser for the nation’s biggest bank, wrote in a report on Monday. The data indicate that India’s consumption and tax collections could stay weak for longer, he said.

    Poor job creation risks worsening the highest unemployment rate in 45 years and build pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which is already battling the weakest economic growth in more than a decade and student-led street protests. Asia’s third-largest economy is officially forecast to expand 5% this financial year, stronger than SBI’s prediction of 4.6%.

    Pronab Sen, India’s former chief statistician, last week told The Wire that India is also seeing a decline in informal jobs. The drop can be linked back to Modi’s November 2016 decision to overnight invalidate 86% of the country’s currency, which broke the back of the nation’s vast, cash-based economy, he said.

    “The young, the untrained, the unskilled, would get their first break in the informal sector," Sen said. “They would pick up skills on the job, and then they would get picked up by more formal establishments. That stream has been broken."

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    Published: 13 Jan 2020, 10:27 AM IST
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