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A key failure of the Modi government’s tenure so far has been a very weak growth in rural wages averaging at 5% annually, barely beating inflation. Recent years have also been marked by a massive reverse migration to rural areas in the years after Covid , worsening the rural employment and wage growth situation. There is consensus among economists about stagnant rural incomes.

However, by some magical trick the Labour Bureau seems to have conjured new data to show a big surge of 17% in the rural wages growth, as per Dhananjay Sinha, chief executive officer (CEO) and head of research , Systematix Institutional Equities.

Wading through government data on rural wages, Sinha came across this strange anomaly – India’s rural wages growth showed an unusual jump after July 2025.

Where was this big structural break upward coming from? After digging further into the data and speaking to economists in the Labour Bureau of India, Sinha located the magic trick. The government had quietly increased the weightage of 10 states (North East, NCR, Goa, Puducherry) in the sample of rural work force way beyond their actual share.

These states collectively had less than 1.5% share in the rural work force but their weightage had been increased to 11% in the sample. Correspondingly, the weightage of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Rajasthan etc. had been reduced.

This statistical sleight of hand has been captured in a research report brought out by the Systematics Group titled ,” The curious case of India’s rural wages windfall”.

https://thewire.in/labour/labour-bureau-increases-weightage-of-states-showing-increase-in-rural-wages-growth

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A month after worker protests shook Noida’s industrial area, a Provincial Armed Constabulary bus sat parked outside Motherson factory’s Gate 4. Four guards frisked workers in beige uniforms as they walked through the gates. A deputy manager, coming to the entrance to answer questions, was clear: “The protests have had no impact. Everything is the same as before.”

Management’s version of normalcy ends a few kilometres away. At the District and Sessions Court Surajpur, Newslaundry met families of five workers – four men and one woman – who were jailed for over a month before bail was granted. Their names are Sangeeta, Guddu, Prince, Amit, and Gopal. Their bail bonds cost Rs 40,000 each. Their families are now in debt.

People already invisible to the system, now caught inside it.

https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/06/02/blacklisted-family-in-debt-out-on-bail-the-human-cost-for-workers-a-month-after-noida-crackdown

source: newslaundry on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZE2HnKD6P-/

source: https://scroll.in/article/1092960/how-big-tech-is-harnessing-the-data-of-indian-factory-workers-to-train-robots

Source: ercinvestigates and dirtydata.earth

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