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Rural unemployment rate sees marginal spike

June 30, 2020

Rural unemployment rate sees marginal spike

India’s urban unemployment rate stayed clingy, falling by a small 0.6 rate point in the week finished 28 June from the earlier week, with mechanical creation yet to get pace despite a new round of lockdown in parts of the nation.

The urban unemployment rate was 10.69% in the week to 28 June, in significantly lower than the 11.29% recorded in the week to 21 June, as per information discharged by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. Urban unemployment at 10.69% is still a lot higher than in pre-lockdown weeks.

Rural unemployment and in general national unemployment moved up barely without precedent for about a month and a half. The provincial unemployment rate moved to 7.62% from 7.26% in the earlier week.

Financial analysts attributed high unemployment to the way that modern belts are not racing to limit, and to restore lockdowns in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and West Bengal.

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