Formal job creation dips in August after four bright months

Net new EPFO subscriber addition fell 7.1% to 1.69 million in August from 1.82 million in July, according to provisional payroll data from the National Statistical Office (NSO) under the statistics and programme implementation ministry, released on Tuesday. It was 1.83 million in June, 1.68 million in May and 1.53 million in April.