
India's jobs challenge
Unemployment in India is a key issue in the country's ongoing general election.
Unemployment in India is a key issue in the country's ongoing general election. The BBC's Anu Anand reports from Delhi on the economic challenges the country faces, and how the unemployment rate might be brought down from 45-year highs. We meet a number of low-paid workers who are looking for better jobs, and explore the wider context for employment with Sabina Dewan, president of the JustJobs Network, and Goutam Das, senior editor at Business Today. Also in the programme, our reporter examines why leather tanneries are currently operating below full capacity across India. Plus we take a wry look at the way the election has unfolded with comedian and satirist Akash Banerjee.
(Picture: Lift attendant Amit Kumar. Picture credit: BBC.)
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- Tue 14 May 201921:32GMTBBC World Service Europe and the Middle East