Citing the government data of the Labour Bureau’s wage rate index, Ramesh said real wages for labourers stagnated between 2014 and 2023, and in fact declined between 2019 and 2024.He further cited the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agricultural Statistics to claim that under Manmohan Singh, real wages for agricultural labourers grew at 6.8 per cent each year, while under Modi, real wages for agricultural labourers declined by minus 1.3 per cent each year.Citing the Periodic Labour Force Survey Series, Ramesh said the average real earnings over time have stagnated between 2017 and 2022 across all employment types – salaried workers, casual workers, and self-employed workers. He further cited data from the Centre for Labour Research and Action to claim that real wages of brick kiln workers have stagnated or declined between 2014 and 2022.
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