Thanks to this story, there is renewed interest in understanding the truly alarming state of #UnemploymentInIndia.
I have been writing on #unemployment consistently. Here's a THREAD of some of the recent explainers I wrote for @IndianExpress (1/n)
indianexpress.com/article/busine… This is a good starting point to understand the issue at hand and to gain some conceptual clarity.
The data in all my pieces is either from #NSSO or @_CMIE
indianexpress.com/article/explai…

Finally, PM @narendramodi has formally accepted that India's economic growth had slowed down. But he is economising on the truth and misleading the country when he suggests that our growth momentum was lost due to #Covid. It was already lost. Thread👇

indianexpress.com/article/busine… So a good starting point would be this piece on the govt's own economic growth data for 2019-20. If you read this, you will understand two things:

1> That India's growth had slowed sharply between April 2019 and March 2020. (contd)

indianexpress.com/article/explai…