The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-2018 report by National Sample Survey Organisation highlighted that an estimated 3.2 crore casual labourers — appointed from time to time according to exigencies of work — lost their jobs in rural India between 2011-12 and 2017-18. Out of these, almost 3 crore were those working on farmlands. Moreover approximately 4.3 crore people became unemployed in the rural India since 2011-12.
As per a report published in The Indian Express by Jay Mazoomdaar, the figures of PLFS suggest that there is 40 per cent shrinkage in the casual farm labour workforce since 2011-12. Further, the data is not released by the government yet.
Between 2011-12 and 2017-18, the number of working people in the rural segment fell by 4.3 crore since 1.9 crore were pushed out of rural self-employment and another 3.2 crore from rural casual labour, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey data.
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Compared to 2011-12 figures, more rural men and women were employed in the regular wage/salary segment which jumped 31 per cent. However, the small base also indicated that only 80 lakh more people were employed in this segment.
Congress party leaders slammed the Modi government.
भाजपा ने लूटे, देश से रोज़गार!
3.2 Cr मज़दूरों ने खोई नौकरियाँ,
उनमें से 3 Cr तो है खेत-मज़दूर!
इसके अलावा 4.7 Cr युवा अपनी नौकरियों से हाथ धो बैठे!
यही है ज़मीनी सच्चाई,
जो मोदी जी ने आपसे छुपाई!मोदी जी,
ये जनता है, सब जानती है,
रोज़गार ख़त्म करने वालों को पहचानती है। pic.twitter.com/jt6fvdBgZN— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) March 21, 2019
I thought India was producing 450 jobs a day.
Turns out Modi’s policies destroyed 1 crore jobs in 2018.
That’s 27,000 jobs lost every single day of 2018.
India’s PM is a joke. https://t.co/hX4LIzT4Z8
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 20, 2019