Srinagar, Nov. 3 -- - Even as there was a substantial increase in the unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir in the month of August, the joblessness rate has come down by over 10 percent in October, as per Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

CMIE, which conducts its own employment survey, showed that the increase in the unemployment rate in October is on account of sharp increase in rural unemployment which rose from 5.84 per cent in September to 8.04 in October, whereas the urban unemployment rate fell slightly from 7.7 to 7.21 per cent.

According to the CMIE data, even though J&K's unemployment rate was higher than the national average, it still saw a decline in October as the rate came down to 22.4 percent compared to the pr...