The Hindu Editorial Analysis 17th June 2022 By Jithin Lal Sir

Waiting for jobs

1. The Center’s decision to recruit personnel is a nod to the festering unemployment issue
For a nation that has had a significant demographic dividend — the working-age population is much larger than the non-working-age sections — finding productive employment for its youth was to be imperative for India. Yet, in the last few years, unemployment has remained a major concern — the leaked Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) in 2018 revealed that India’s unemployment rate was the highest (6.07%) in four decades.