Unemployment rates vary among religious groups, govt lists plans for employability of minorities | Explained News, The Indian Express

Unemployment rates vary among religious groups, govt lists plans for employability of minorities | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: June 28, 2019 11:00:19 am

Unemployment rates vary among religious groups, govt lists plans for employability of minorities

The ministry tabled religion-wise figures for four major religious groups — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism — for both genders and in rural and urban India.

The ministry tabled religion-wise figures for four major religious groups — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism — for both genders and in rural and urban India. (File Photo)

Across the urban-rural and gender divides, unemployment rates vary among religious groups. This emerges out of data in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2017-18, presented in Lok Sabha on Thursday by the Ministry for Minority Affairs in reply to a question.