The India Employment Report 2024 is no longer available on the ILO’s website and its link has stopped working.
The report, previously available on the website, is no longer to be found in any of the ILO’s online publication repositories. Further, the link reports an error, which reads: “This page isn’t working. www.ilo.org redirected you too many times.”
The report published this year by International Labor Organization (ILO) and Institute for Human Development had elicited much comment and controversy due to its dire findings on employment in India,
The report, released in March this year, had made an analysis of the labour market trends in India over a period of 20 years. Among the most notable of its findings was that the youth made up 83 percent of the total unemployed population, as of 2022. Further, the share of educated youths among all unemployed people also increased to 65.7% in 2022 from 54.2% in 2000.
The report had primarily analysed data from the National Sample Surveys and Periodic Labour Force Surveys between the year 2000 and 2022, with a postscript for 2023.
According to news reports, labour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra had called senior ILO officials to convey the government’s disappointment over the report. The ministry had reportedly informed the ILO that the report had failed to capture international migration trends as well as a surge in gig and platform workers in India.
Meanwhile, the Delhi-based Institute for Human Development, which had partnered with the ILO to produce the report, has denied being contacted either with objections or about a takedown.
