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MANUFACTURING SECTOR NEWS
After GDP surprise, new govt data raises concerns about informal manufacturing
September 04, 2025 7:11 am
Employment in the unincorporated manufacturing sector fell by 9.3 per cent in April-June compared to January-March, dragging down informal sector employment by 2.1 per cent to 12.86 crore.
P Chidambaram writes | Eleven years: a data-based critique
June 22, 2025 7:03 am
Expenditure is a proxy for income and borrowing. The persons in the bottom 10% have an expenditure of Rs 50-100 per day. Ask yourself, with Rs 50-100 a day, what kind of food can a person consume? What kind of dwelling can a person have? What kind of medical care or medicines can the person afford?
Union Budget 2025: National Manufacturing Mission for small, medium, large industries soon
February 03, 2025 10:21 pm
The mission’s mandate will include five focus areas – ease and cost of doing business, upskilling for in-demand jobs, MSMEs, availability of technology, and quality products.
Pritam Banerjee writes: Focus on jobs in digitally delivered services, incentivise mid-sized firms, rationalise tariffs for GVC integration
January 19, 2025 10:31 pm
Thanks to the digital revolution, a vast number of services across a range of occupations can now be performed remotely. Much of the work related to professional services like accounting, financial and legal services have been performed remotely for some time.
Survey: Manufacturing industries’ job growth at 12-year high in FY23
October 01, 2024 7:35 am
This is the highest rate of increase in employment in manufacturing industries in the last 12 years.
Manufacturing PMI at 16-year high as new orders jump in Mar
April 03, 2024 5:15 am
The survey, however, pointed out that there was a mild pick-up in cost pressures during March, with cost pressures at the highest level in five months.
Manufacturing sector saw employment, profits improve despite pandemic blows: Survey
February 06, 2024 7:24 am
Total number of employees in over 2.50 lakh factories decreased in 2020-21 to 1.60 crore from 1.66 crore in 2019-20, while the number of workers employed in the factories reduced to 1.26 crore from 1.31 core during the same period.
There is no substitute for an industrial policy
December 27, 2023 10:36 am
PLI is good for high-end manufacturing, but industrial policy is best bet for mass job creation
India's manufacturing PMI growth eases to 57.5 in September
October 03, 2023 11:02 am
India's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by S&P Global, fell to 57.5 last month from 58.6 in August, missing the Reuters poll forecast for 58.1.
Factory output hits 3 months high
September 02, 2023 6:09 am
The August manufacturing PMI number has come a day after the release of April-June GDP data, which showed the Indian economy grew at a four-quarter high of 7.8 per cent, broadly in line with expectations.
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