The nation has seen such situations that the various sectors of the nation were not expecting at all. The various decisions that have been taken by the government of the India like of the Demonetisation or the coming up of the GST, the various sectors of the society have been left with a shock and are still in the shock, trying to recover from the situations that has caused a huge drop down in the there graph of there growth. One of the sectors that have been really hit in the recent time is that of the Informal Sector that is still in a huge shock as the GST paper work has caused a blockage in the working capital. The major reason that has been conveyed by the various economists in India or even by the various economists present worldwide, say that the nation was not at all ready for these drastic changes as the necessary preparations were not at all in the place to cope with all this. According to the recent Trade and Development Report, 2017 from the UNCTAD, Geneva, India and the China are no longer the growth poles of the world. The global economy needs a stimulus because its growth rate slowed down to 2.5 per cent from the 3.2 per cent in the pre-financial crisis days and India did provide a boost in the past. Today India’s GDP growth has slipped to a lower position than China’s (6.7 per cent). While china has experienced high growth for the nearly 3 decades, today it is facing a challenge of the high wages and the high input costs. For India it is facing a different type of the challenge as in the case of India it is a very different story. The industrial and the export sectors growth have slowed and the service sector growth has been facing the problems for almost a year. The informal sector has been badly hit by the demonetisation and the GST and it’s as a result of all this, the output has contracted. The decline in the output of the informal sector when properly measured will show even a sharper decline in the GDP growth than the 5.7 per cent recorded in the April-June quarter of 2017-18. The unorganised or the informal sector constitutes an important part of the economy contributing, according to the landmark National Commission for the Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector Report (2009), 50 per cent of the GDP. Even though it employs around the 90 per cent of the labour force, the conditions of the work in the sector are dismal and the demonetisation has hit it very hard.
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