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Over 75 lakh jobs impacted due to lockdowns, unemployment rate touch to 4-month high of 8%: CMIE

04 May 2021 Evaluate

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) has  stated  that the second wave of COVID-19 and the resultant localised lockdowns have impacted over 75 lakh jobs, taking the unemployment rate to a four-month high of 8 per cent. CMIE's managing director and chief executive Mahesh Vyas said the situation on the employment front is expected to continue to remain challenging going forward as well. He said ‘in the month of April, compared to March, we have lost 75 lakh jobs. That is what has caused the jump in the unemployment rate’.

The national unemployment rate touched 7.97 per cent as per the Centre's proprietary data, with urban areas witnessing higher stress at 9.78 per cent and rural joblessness at 7.13 per cent. The national unemployment rate had stood at 6.50 per cent in March, and the number on both rural and urban front was lower. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a slew of pockets going under lockdown-like situation with only essential activities being allowed, which result in a chill in a bulk of economic activities and a resultant impact on jobs.

Vyas said ‘I do not know about the peaking of the COVID wave, but I can see stress on the employment front’. He added that ‘What is likely to happen is that unemployment can remain at high levels, he said, adding that the labour force participation rate can also fall. In worst situation, both can happen’. However, he said that the situation right now is not as dire as the one witnessed in the first lockdown, when the unemployment rate had touched up to 24 per cent levels.

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