Economic Survey 2025-26 estimates India’s GDP growth for this financial year at 7.4% driven by do...

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran has said that employment conditions in the country have improved since the launch of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). Briefing the media on the Economic Survey 2025-26 in New Delhi on Thursday, Mr Nageswaran said, the unemployment rate has declined from 6 per cent then to 3.2 per cent in 2023-24. He said that female labour force participation has increased by nearly 18 percentage points. The CEA said the unemployment rate in the first nine mont...