{"id":105377,"date":"2021-05-06T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=105377"},"modified":"2021-05-06T20:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:38:19","slug":"state-of-working-india-2021-one-year-of-covid-19-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-working-india-2021-one-year-of-covid-19-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;State of Working India 2021&#8221; &#8211; One Year of Covid-19 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Azim Premji University\u2019s Centre for Sustainable Employment has released the annual State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19 Report.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of State of Working India 2021 report:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Impact of Pandemic:<\/strong> The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased informality in employment. This has lead to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">decline in earnings for the majority of workers<\/span> and an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">increase in poverty<\/span> in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lost of Jobs:<\/strong> Around 100 million jobs were lost nationwide during the April-May 2020 lockdown. Most of these workers had found employment by June 2020. However, about 15 million remained out of work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on GDP<\/strong>: Due to employment and income losses, the labour share of GDP fell down by over 5% points. For example, the labour share fell down from 32.5% in the second quarter of 2019-20 to 27% in the second quarter of 2020-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Informal Sector:<\/strong> Post Lockdown, nearly half of salaried workers moved into informal work. They became either self-employed (30%), casual wage (10%) or informal salaried(9%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most Impacted States<\/strong>: Job losses were higher for states with a higher Covid-19 caseload. Hence, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, contributed to a large extent to job losses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gender Wise:<\/strong> During lockdown and afterwards, 61% of working men remained employed and 7% lost employment and did not return to work. For women, only 19% remained employed and 47% suffered a permanent job loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poverty Rate:<\/strong> 230 million people fell below the national minimum wage threshold of \u20b9375 per day during the pandemic. Furthermore, there was an increase in the poverty rate by 15% in rural and nearly 20% in urban areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About State of Working India 2021 Report:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The aim of the report\u00a0 was to document the impact of one year of Covid-19 on jobs, incomes, inequality, and poverty. The report also examines the effectiveness of policy measures undertaken by the government on relief and support programmes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Based on: <\/strong>The report is based on data sourced from\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer Pyramids Household Survey of the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy(CMIE)<\/li>\n<li>Azim Premji University Covid-19 Livelihoods Phone Survey (CLIPS),<\/li>\n<li>The India Working Survey(IWS) and<\/li>\n<li>Other surveys by various civil society organisations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommendations: <\/strong>The report recommends several measures such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extension of free rations under the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-faulty-public-distribution-system-in-manystateshave-denied-food-to-many-poor-people-in-light-of-this-discuss-various-issues-in-public-distribution-system-give-some-solutio\/\">public distribution system<\/a> till the end of 2021. Currently, the government stipulated till June 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Monthly cash transfers of Rs 5,000 for three months to vulnerable households.<\/li>\n<li>The government should provide Work Entitlement under the rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGA. Further, the government should expand work from present100 days to 150 days per household per year.<\/li>\n<li>A Pilot urban employment programme in the worst-hit districts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/coronavirus-average-monthly-income-for-workers-fell-by-17\/article34491703.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Azim Premji University\u2019s Centre for Sustainable Employment has released the annual State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19 Report. Key Findings of State of Working India 2021 report: Impact of Pandemic: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased informality in employment. This has lead to a decline in earnings for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-working-india-2021-one-year-of-covid-19-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;State of Working India 2021&#8221; &#8211; One Year of Covid-19 Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,1305,9],"tags":[1414],"class_list":["post-105377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-soc_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791643,"cached_date":1704816043},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}