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The unemployment complaint (UR) among radical aged 15 years and supra declined to 4.7% successful November, the lowest level since April, erstwhile it stood astatine 5.1%, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) study for November released connected Monday (Decemb er 15, 2025).
The PLFS, conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI), stated that the wide Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) accrued to 55.8% successful November, the highest level recorded since April.
According to a MoSPI connection based connected the PLFS report, the emergence successful LFPR was chiefly driven by agrarian areas, wherever it accrued to 58.6% successful November from 58.0% successful April. On a month-on-month basis, the agrarian LFPR roseate from 57.8% successful October, portion the municipality LFPR decreased marginally from 50.5% to 50.4%.
Overall, pistillate LFPR showed a dependable emergence from June 2025 to November 2025, the MoSPI said. “It accrued from 32.0% to 35.1% during this period, driven chiefly by higher labour unit information successful agrarian areas, portion municipality pistillate LFPR remained comparatively stable. Rural pistillate LFPR recorded a accordant upward movement, rising from 35.2% successful June 2025 to 39.7% successful November 2025,” it added.
The Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for persons aged 15 years and supra successful agrarian areas accrued from 55.4% successful April 2025 to 56.3% successful November 2025, portion the wide WPR roseate from 52.8% to 53.2%. “Urban WPR remained mostly stable. Notably, agrarian pistillate WPR improved from 36.8% successful April 2025 to 38.4% successful November 2025, driving the emergence successful wide pistillate WPR from 32.5% to 33.4% implicit this period,” the Centre said.
“In November 2025, the agrarian UR fell to a caller debased of 3.9%, portion the municipality UR decreased to 6.5%, matching its erstwhile lowest level recorded successful April 2025,” the merchandise said, adding that UR for some males and females aged 15 years and supra showed a notable diminution successful November 2025. “Among females, the UR fell to 4.8% successful November 2025, down from 5.4% successful October 2025. This diminution was driven by reductions successful some agrarian and municipality pistillate URs, which decreased from 4.0% to 3.4% and 9.7% to 9.3%, respectively,” the Ministry noted. The wide antheral UR decreased to 4.6%, compared with 5.1% successful October. “Disaggregated by sectors, agrarian and municipality antheral URs stood astatine 4.1% and 5.6% successful November 2025, compared with 4.6% and 6.1% observed successful the preceding month,” the survey found.
The NSO surveyed 3,73,229 radical for the PLFS—2,13,337 from agrarian and 1,59,892 from municipality areas.
