Independent Annual Audit of Youth Employment Data
Commission an independent statutory audit of all Government of India youth-employment data, with full methodology disclosure and per-sector breakdowns.
No name, email or phone collected. One click. Public count only.
The Demand
India cannot have one employment figure from the Periodic Labour Force Survey, a different one from EPFO payroll data, a third from CMIE, and a fourth from a viral tweet. We demand a statutory Youth Employment Audit Authority — independent of every ministry — that publishes one figure per year, with methodology in full.
Why This Matters
A 22-year-old applying to her first job cannot judge a five-year political claim against a contradictory statistical claim and a tweet. The country needs one number, audited the way a listed company audits a balance sheet.
No major economy in the world resolves its employment statistics in public press conferences. That is not how it is supposed to work.
Context
PLFS and CMIE have produced unemployment estimates that differ by hundreds of basis points in the same year. EPFO payroll data, often cited by the executive, captures only formal-sector additions and excludes the bulk of the workforce.
A statutory audit body modelled on the Comptroller and Auditor General — but for jobs — would force convergence.
What Signing Does
The petition is addressed to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, NITI Aayog, and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour. Each signature is one more vote for being told the truth.