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NEW DELHI – The job crisis in the national capital hit the poor particularly hard as those not educated lost jobs in far greater numbers than those with a simple diploma, the Delhi employment survey found.
The finding shows that overall unemployment rate rose from 11.1% in January-February 2020 to 28.5% in October-November and people at the bottom of the income hierarchy were among the worst affected.
“Education wise-analysis of both male and female unemployment rate during the survey in comparison to before corona shows that the unemployment rate increased more among the illiterates and less educated both in males and females compared to the more educated males and females,” the report was quoted by Indian Express as saying.
A look at the numbers shows that among illiterates, unemployment rose by 20.5 percentage points; 21.8 percentage points among those with below primary level education; and 20 percentage points among those who had cleared class V.
