Hyderabad, July 1 -- Even as Hyderabad ranks among India's better-paying urban labour markets, the city is grappling with higher unemployment than many of its peers and a sizeable number of young people remaining outside both jobs and education, according to the National Statistics Office's (NSO) first city-level labour market report covering 46 million-plus cities.

Hyderabad's unemployment rate higher than Bengaluru, Surat

Hyderabad's unemployment rate stood at 6.8 per cent, above the 4.9 per cent average for million-plus cities and considerably higher than other major urban centres such as Bengaluru (2.8 per cent), Surat (1 per cent), Howrah (0.8 per cent) and Rajkot (0.3 per cent). At the other end of the spectrum, Patna recorded the...