India’s unemployment rate rose to 7.45% from 7.14% in January: Thinktank CMIE

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s unemployment rate rose to 7.45% in February from 7.14% in the previous month, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) showed on Wednesday.

The urban unemployment rate declined to 7.93% in February from 8.55% in the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate rose to 7.23% from 6.48%, the data showed.

(Reporting by Manoj Kumar in New Delhi; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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