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India’s unemployment rate falls for second month to 5.1% in August
The Business Guardian
|September 16, 2025
India’s overall unemployment rate fell to 5.1 per cent in August 2025, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Monday.
The rate declined for the second month in a row, from 5.6 per cent in June to 5.2 per cent in July and now 5.1 per cent in August.
This story is from the September 16, 2025 edition of The Business Guardian.
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