By Aishwarya Kumar / AFP, NEW DELHIThe hunt for work becomes more desperate every day on Delhi’s street corner labor markets as India’s economic slowdown bites deeper, piling pressure on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi just half a year into his second term. Modi’s right-wing government is struggling to convince the public that it has the answers to the economic slowdown. We have to bear the brunt now.”Raju, a labor market carpenter for 20 years, said that he now goes for days on end without a job offer. “The work and the money are 50 percent down on what I used to get,” he said. “Consumption has fallen because of the breakdown of the labor market,” the Tata Institute of Social Sciences’ Ram Kumar told reporters.

Source: Taipei Times December 07, 2019 15:56 UTC