Pattern and nature of employment in India and among major states
The Government of India gradually adopted market-oriented economic reform policies since the mid-1980s. In the early phase, these were associated with increased public expenditure that involved additional fiscal allocations to the rural areas, and sought to reduce the ill-effects of reform process. The pace of policy change accelerated during the early 1990s, with a marked beginning of intensive economic liberalization and it changed the attitudes towards state intervention in the economy. In this background, this paper examines the changes in the pattern of employment, its nature among the total population and also among the social groups at the national level and among major states in India.