Unemployment rate touches 25% in IIOJK: report.

ISLAMABAD -- The unemployment rate in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), has touched 25 percent for the month of March, despite India's unemployment rate witnessing a decline.

According to reporter, as per the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) figures, Jammu and Kashmir has a 25 percent unemployment rate, which is even higher than the national level unemployment rate of 7.6 percent recorded across India.

The unemployment rates are produced by CMIE using its Consumer Pyramids Household Survey machinery. CMIE has pegged India's unemployment rate at 7.6 percent, which means J and K has a much...

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