India, July 28 -- The Indian economy experienced an unpre-cedented contraction of 24.4% in the quarter ending June 2020 due to the 68-day-long lockdown that was imposed on March 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19. That employment suffered during this period is a given. The urban unemployment rate increased from 8.9% in April-June 2019 to 20.9% in the same period in 2020, as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the April-June 2020 period released in March. But since the quarterly PLFS numbers do not include rural areas, they did not reveal the entire employment story. The annual PLFS report for July 2019-June 2020, released last week, gives a better idea of the lockdown's impact on employment, and corrobo-rates anecdotal accounts of reverse migration to rural areas in distress. Urban jobs fell by 11.05 million between April-June 2019 and April-June 2020, while rural jobs increased by 14.67 million in the same period. The share of employment in agricu-lture increased in 2019-20. This is unprecedented. Real wages fell for most workers, the highest for the self-employed category during April-June 2020 period. Average number of hours worked fell across categories....