Congress normal secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh mentioned the International Labour Organisation’s simply launched Global Wage Report 2024-2025 has some regarding findings about wage inequality in India.
The Congress on Friday slammed the federal government over an International Labour Organisation report pointing to wage inequality in India, claiming it is a direct consequence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “pakoda-nomics” which is about ‘pakodas’ for the plenty and ‘halwa’ for the chosen few.
Congress normal secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh mentioned the International Labour Organisation’s simply launched Global Wage Report 2024-2025 has some regarding findings about wage inequality in India.
Citing the report, he mentioned the highest 10 percentile of India’s income-earners earn 6.8 instances greater than the underside 10 percentile. “This is significantly more unequal than nearly every country in our neighourhood, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar,” Ramesh mentioned in a put up on X.
He additional cited the report to state that India has one of many lowest share of wage-workers amongst all lower-middle-income international locations. Most staff are engaged in self-employment which is usually casual, low-paying, and extremely liable to volatility, Ramesh mentioned.
“Remember this is a direct consequence of the pakoda-nomics that the non-biological PM has created. Pakodas for the masses, halwa for the chosen few!” the Congress chief mentioned. The Congress has been attacking the federal government over its dealing with of the financial system and elevating considerations over “increasing” unemployment, value rise and “increasing income inequality”.
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