The new Labor Codes to be implemented in India from April 1, 2026 will bring a big change for crores of workers.

The biggest benefit will be given to gig and platform workers, who are being included in the scope of social security for the first time.

Under the rules, if a worker works for 90 days with any one aggregator or 120 days in the previous financial year on more than one platform, he will be eligible. The day on which earnings are earned will be considered a full working day.

The government has sought suggestions on draft rules. According to Labor Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the target is to provide social security to 100 crore workers by March 2026.

Appointment letter, free health checkup, equal pay and women’s right to work in all shifts will also be ensured.

People in the country usually move to big cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi for employment, but now the situation is gradually changing. Small towns like Udaipur, Visakhapatnam, Warangal, Lucknow and Indore are emerging as a hub of job creations. This change has happened in the last few years. People’s thinking about this is now changing that employment opportunities are limited to metros only.

More opportunities are available in small cities

The country’s economy is changing. Technology is being adopted in every sector. Alam is that now more employment opportunities are coming out from small cities and towns. According to an ET report, small cities from Udaipur to Visakhapatnam and Nagpur in the first half of 2025 performed well from big cities in terms of software and recruitment in IT sector as compared to the last one year. According to a report by Teamlease, there were more than 50 % appointments in Tier-II and Tier-III cities during January to June. Whereas Tier-1 cities like Bengaluru increased by only 12-15 percent.

Small towns also came forward in IT sector

Speaking to ET, Chief Executive Niti Sharma, Chief Executive of Teamlies Digital, said, “There was a big change in the IT sector of the country in the year 2025. In Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, people got more jobs in this sector. ”This change has happened in a few years, especially since the Korona epidemic. Cities like Coimbatore, Nagpur and Nashik have got jobs in 20-25 percent in this year as compared to last year. 30-40 percent people were taken to work in IT fields in Indore and Jaipur. According to teamlies data, the appointment in assistant works was 24-31 percent in Tier-II and Tier-III cities, while Tier-I cities were recorded 8-15 %.

Companies looking at small cities

One thing is clear from this that in the last few years, there was a tremendous bounce in BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail and IT sector in small cities. According to a report by Randstad Talent Insights Report 2025, jobs in Tier-II cities have increased by about 42 %, while Tier-1 cities have increased by only 19 %. Even in small cities, consumption is increasing rapidly, infrastructure is developing, education is improving. In such a situation, many companies are taking care of these cities keeping in mind the low cost. As a result, opportunities to work are also getting more and more.

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Rojgar portal: Unemployed in Madhya Pradesh Employment Portal are being known as ‘aspirational youth’. The number of educated unemployed in Madhya Pradesh is in lakhs, but now the government is calling the unemployed not unemployed but ‘aspirations’.

Educated unemployed youth in the employment office, employment fairs and the employment portal of the state have been named aspires. According to the state data of the state, there are about 30 lakh educated unemployed in the state, who are looking at the government with hopeful eyes.

The government is claiming that in the coming years, the government will give jobs to the educated youth of the state, but the pace in which employment is being created and the number of unemployed is increasing, it is not possible to see it in the near future.

Explain that in response to a question about the number of unemployed in the state in the Assembly, the state skill development and employment minister Gautam Tetwal said that “Information of the unemployed registered on the employment portal is not maintained, but the information of ‘aspirations’ youth’ is maintained.”

On this, the Congress has accused the BJP government of cheating the youth. Former Congress minister and leader Sajjan Singh Verma says that the government is implicating the unemployed in the mausoleum. Changing the name is not going to change the circumstances. He said that Prime Minister Modi had said to provide 2 crore jobs every year in 2014, while the government of Madhya Pradesh has promised to give 10 lakh jobs every year, but the truth is in front of everyone.

At the same time, the BJP is calling this initiative of the government commendable. BJP MLA Bhagwan Das Sabnani said that today’s younger generation aspiration is to reduce it, not only a government job but not only a government job but it can be made self -sufficient through startups and other employment, so if the name has changed, then why is the Congress suffering. The government wants to do something for the flight of youth, so why is the Congress doing politics. He said that millions of youths of the state will get employment in the coming time due to investment in the state.

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