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Casual farm labour shrinks: NSSO's Report
Why is it in the news ?
- According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-2018 report by NSSO, an estimated 3.2 crore casual labourers lost their jobs in rural India between 2011-12 and 2017-18, a 29.2% slide over the previous survey.
- Of these, almost 3 crore were those working on farms.
- However, the government has not released the report so far.
More in the news
- Casual labour refers to those employed from time to time according to exigencies of work.
Other Findings of the report:
- The share of rural households with major income from casual labour in agriculture decreased by 10 percentage points since 2011-12.
- That works out to a drop of 15 million families (from 36 million to 21 million) dependent on casual farm work.
- The rural casual labour segment- farm and non-farm- shows an overall slide of 7.3% in male and 3.3% in female employment since 2011-12.
- However, the report identifies a 4% rise in self-employed farm labour.
Source
Indian Express.