'The nature of employment in India is multifaceted.' Elaborate.

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The above statement about the employment in India is absolutely correct.

This is mainly because of the variation in the duration of employment. There are some people who are employed throughout the year, whereas there are others who are employed for only a few months and some get work for only very few days in a year
We have rural workers and urban workers. In India a majority of the workers live in rural areas, so their proportion to the workforce is higher than their urban counterparts. The rural workers constituted about 3/4 of the total workforce of 460 million in 2004-2005
Another noticeable feature is that 70% of the workers are men and the rest are women.
Women workers are $\frac{1}{3}$ of the rural workforce and they are $\frac{1}{5}\text{th}$ of the rural workforce in the urban areas.
Many workers do not get fair wages or payment for the work rendered by them i.e., they are underpaid and thereby exploited by their employers.
In some areas women are neither paid in cash/ kind so they are not treated as workers, especially in doing their domestic work. But the economists are of the opinion that they should be treated as 'workers'

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