Their resignations assumed significance in the wake of leaked data that suggests unemployment in the country reached 6.1% in 2017-18, the highest in the last 45 years.
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Speaking on the isuue of rise in rate of unemployment, PC Mohanan said that there is evidence for increasing unemployment in India. Most of the studies have shown the data related to recent increase in unemployment in the country.