Unemployment rate (based on CWS) increased to all-time high of 8.8% from 3% between 2011-12 and 2017-18

(G.N.S) Dt. 1 New Delhi Indian economy is passing through an unprecedented phase in its employment history, in which total employment (Workforce) is declining, and open unemployed and disheartened Not-in-Labour Force-Education-Training” (NLET) youth (a reserve army) are rising massively, the study said. Mehrotra is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru