According to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India's unemployment rate (UR) has decreased to 6.43% in September 2022 due to an increase in labour participation in the rural and urban areas.
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According to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India's unemployment rate (UR) has decreased to 6.43% in September 2022 due to an increase in labour participation in the rural and urban areas. During August, India's unemployment rate surged to a one-year high of 8.3% as employment sequentially fell by 2 million to 394.6 million. The unemployment rate in the rural areas fell to 5.84% in September from 7.68% in August, while in the urban areas it dropped to 7.70% against 9.57% in the previous month. The unemployment rate was the highest in Rajasthan at 23.8% in September, followed by Jammu and Kashmir at 23.2%, Haryana at 22.9%, Tripura at 17%, Jharkhand at 12.2% and Bihar at 11.4%. The unemployment was the lowest in Chhattisgarh at 0.1% in September, followed by Assam at 0.4%, Uttarakhand at 0.5%, Madhya Pradesh at 0.9%, Gujarat at 1.6%, Meghalaya at 2.3% and Odisha at 2.9%. In August, the urban unemployment rate shot up to 9.6% and the rural unemployment rate also increased to 7.7%.
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