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India's unemployment rate fell from 6.1% to 5.8% in 2018-2019: Govt

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The ministry of statistics and programme implementation in its annual periodic labour force survey revealed that India's unemployment rate fell marginally between July 2018-June 2019 to 5.8% compared to 6.1% during the same period in 2017-18 while the labour force participation rate in the country rose to 37.5% as 36.9% in the corresponding period of 2017-18. Even the worker population ratio went up to 35.3% as 34.7% in 2017-18.