The findings are part of a first of its kind survey conducted by the Labour Bureau of ministry of Labour and Employment as part of a study on the effect of economic slowdown on employment in India.

A sample size of 2,581 units covering 20 centres across 11 states was taken up for the survey.

PTI

Image: A Hindu woman dries a cloth at the confluence of the Ganges River and the Bay of Bengal at Sagar Island, about 150 km from Kolkata. | Photograph: Jayanta Shaw

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