Status of Indian job market: Fact versus fiction  https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/status-of-indian-job-market-fact-versus-fiction-13759450.html  Bibek Debroy There may be concerns about employment, but it is not as disastrous as is often made out to be.. In an informal economy like India, where there are usually no clear employer-employee relationships, unlike in more advanced countries.... At present, both the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) have biases. Agriculture is a different proposition. But even outside of agriculture, neither is comprehensive in coverage. Both can be streamlined and improved, and time lags can be reduced. ..

the RBI’s report based on KLEMS dated October 2022...  “Employment, as measured by workforce participation rates, has been declining in India, especially among rural females.... between 2011 and 2017.” There has been no report after that. But, since 2017–18, there seems to have been a pickup in employment. For manufacturing and services (construction, trade), it is quite visible after 2020–21.

 Prashant Bhishan  talks about the issue of the figures .. https://youtu.be/t4ymo3DdgTk?t=21