Mahesh Vyas: 'We need a 5-year, 10-year plan to get labour participation rate right'

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Mahesh Vyas, CEO of the think tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, discusses how to save jobs and create new ones in the wake of the pandemic. He spoke before a nationwide audience on Zoom. Edited excerpts: On the state of jobs in India since the pandemic started There is a marginal difference between the official statistical machinery that generates the employment data and the CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy) machinery.