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Unemployment rate rises to 5.3% in Sept
Hindustan Times Amritsar
|October 16, 2025
India’s headline unemployment rate increased to 5.3% in September, the highest since June, according to Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Wednesday.
The rate was 5.6% in June.
The September unemployment rate is 20 basis points—one basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point — higher than August, when it was at its lowest value in the monthly series, which started in April this year.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Amritsar.
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