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JustJobs Network's Aditya Prem Kumar examines why technical skills alone are no longer enough to ensure meaningful employment for India's youth — and what it will take to close the employability gap.

Drawing on JJN's research, IndiaSpend quotes Renjini Rajagopalan, Research Lead, Centre for Gender Analysis at JustJobs Network, on Karnataka’s fare-free public transport scheme, Shakti Yojane. In the article, she highlights the scheme's role in expanding women’s autonomy, while emphasising the need for improved service frequency and planning.

JJN's Isha Gupta provides crucial insights into why participation among young jobseekers remains low, highlighting the structural barriers that continue to hold India's youth back from accessing meaningful internship opportunities.

JustJobs Network’s Study on Shakti Yojane finds the scheme expanding mobility, income security, and agency for Karnataka’s most vulnerable women — at scale.

In a landmark shift, the Supreme Court's 2025 ruling in Dharam Singh & Anr. v. State of UP & Anr. declared that "perennial work deserves perennial posts". Breaking from decades of judicial precedent, the court held that long-serving daily wage workers in government service performing essential, continuous functions must be regularised, with full employment benefits. The judgment directly challenges past rulings that treated temporary government employment as inherently non-regularisable, instead emphasizing the nature and continuity of the work as central to constitutional fairness.

Despite high education levels, Kerala faces alarmingly high rates of youth who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET). This disconnect between education and labour force participation signals a deep socioeconomic challenge. Based on qualitative interviews with a range of stakeholders in the state, JustJobs Network's Isha Gupta unpacks this paradox, pointing to a mismatch between youth aspirations and available opportunities.

JJN's Sabina Dewan writes on how technological advancement, trade shocks, climate change, and the energy transition are transforming how we live and work, faster than the ability of our education and skill systems to keep pace. She says urgent, comprehensive reforms — from effective implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) to stronger industry partnerships — are necessary to improve our education and skills systems.

This factsheet examines key indicators from India’s Annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (July 2023-June 2024), providing insights into the quality and health of India’s labour market.

India is advancing social security for online gig workers, but this marks only a reactive step in addressing the evolving nature of informal work. JJN’s Renjini Rajagopalan writes for The Hindu highlighting the need for a more inclusive, universal social protection system to ensure no worker is left behind, especially as new worker categories emerge.

India's Union Budget 2025 attempts to drive economic growth and investment by giving tax breaks to individuals, corporates and start-ups. Sabina Dewan shares her remarks on these measures and makes a case for the need to focus on sustainable and implementable policy framework focussed on creating good quality jobs.