Meghalaya has third-lowest unemployment rate in India

Meghalaya, Feb 3: The unemployment rate in Meghalaya is the third lowest in India at 1.5%, data released by the independent think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said.

Telangana reported the lowest unemployment rate at 0.7% in January, followed by Gujarat (1.2%), Meghalaya and Odisha (1.8%). However, Haryana had the highest unemployment rate at 23.4%, followed by Rajasthan at 18.9%.

India’s unemployment rate drop in Jan

India’s unemployment rate witnessed a sharp decline to 6.57% in January, the lowest since March 2021, as the country gradually recovers with an easing of restrictions following a decline in Omicron cases, according to CMIE.

While unemployment in urban India stood at 8.16% in January, in rural areas it was the lowest at 5.84%.

In December, the unemployment rate in India stood at 7.91%, with urban at 9.30% and rural at 7.28%, it added.


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CMIE had estimated the number of unemployed in India as of December 2021 at 53 million, of which a huge proportion were women.

CMIE MD and CEO Mahesh Vyas, in his analysis of the December data, said 35 million people were actively looking for work in December 2021, of which 23 per cent or 8 million were women.

An equally important challenge is to provide employment for the additional 17 million who were also not employed and were willing to work if work was available, although they were not actively looking for employment, Vyas added.