With a drastic fall of the rupee, the export sector has turned out to be the only profit-making vertical of the economy that is expected to generate jobs in some of the labour-intensive segments such as textiles, leathers and handicrafts among others.

Exporters are not only offering higher wages, they are also providing several perks to retain the workforce, which is deserting them for better opportunities like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.