There is an urgent need to rectify the anomalies to help women and lesser-educated and skilled people to get or remain in job in the post-COVID-19 world of work which is in rapid transition
Disparities among the Indian workforce are stark. Gender and educational inequalities are alarming. This has come to light in the Annual Bulletin on Additional Indicators based on data collected in Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), July 2019-June 2020 released recently, which it could not conceal despite tampering with definitions, and providing data on only usual status that does not reveal the current status on the ground.
The world of work has changed after the COVID-19 pandemic, in which companies tend to increasingly adopt automation, digitalization, and certain other measures that go against the workers having lesser level of education and skills. Moreover, women workers are worst sufferers, first on account of their gender and secondly due to low level of education and skills.
The data has also revealed great regional disparities along with the stark inequalities at the national level. There is an urgent need to rectify the anomalies across the country to help women and lesser-educated and skilled people to get or remain in job in the post-COVID-19 world of work which is in rapid transition.
The National Statistical Office (NSO) has made several changes in making this bulletin which conceals the ground realities though it emphasizes “the importance of availability of labour...
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