Every claim we have checked.

• There is no official MOSPI, NITI Aayog or PLFS table that follows “1,000 children” into 36 permanent jobs, 300 unemployed people and 700 gig workers.
• NITI Aayog’s gig-and-platform paper estimated platform and gig work at about 1.5% of the workforce in 2020–21. That is not 70% of every school cohort.
• PLFS publishes employment by usual status across agriculture, industry and services, and a national unemployment rate. It does not show 30% of a cohort unemployed and 70% in gig work as a pipeline.
• “Permanent job” is not a PLFS category that can be set at 36 out of 1,000. Regular wage/salary work, casual work and self-employment are separate published statuses.

NITI Aayog, India's Booming Gig and Platform EconomyMOSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey

• PLFS does not publish an 80% unemployment rate for engineering graduates, or for any large graduate group at that level.
• The World Bank’s ILO-modeled unemployment series for India is a national rate in the low-to-mid single digits in recent years. It is not 80%.
• “Engineer” is not an official PLFS unemployment cut that has been released as four-fifths jobless.
• Graduate unemployment can be higher than the all-India rate in some PLFS tables. That still does not license an 80% engineering figure.

MOSPI, Periodic Labour Force SurveyWorld Bank, Unemployment (ILO modeled)

• The Ministry of Labour and Employment told Parliament that migration of workers from one state to another is a continuous process and dynamic in nature, and it did not give state-wise data on migrants after January 2021 [6]. [6]
• The Periodic Labour Force Survey shows the national youth unemployment rate declined from 17.8% in 2017-18 to 10.0% in 2022-23 [5]. [5]
• An Incredible Goa article says Goa's unemployment rate was the third highest in the country and that many youth travelled outside the country in search of employment [3]. [3]
• A Goan op-ed says Goa has created many jobs but they are largely filled by people from outside Goa because Goans are not ready to take them; it describes unemployment as underemployment, skill mismatch and shortage of quality jobs acceptable to aspiring youth [4]. [4]
• An Incredible Goa article on migration says limited or poorly paid employment opportunities and frustration with unemployment pushed many Goans to look beyond their home state, and thousands have moved abroad [9]. [9]

[3] Goa’s Unemployment Rate is The Third Highest in The Country — incrediblegoa.org[4] Goa’s unemployment conundrum | The Goan — thegoan.net[5] Decline in Unemployment Rate for Youth Workers and Labourers — pib.gov.in[6] GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT RAJYA ... — sansad.in[9] Migration and the Changing Face of Goa — incrediblegoa.org