- Opposition raised the issue of data on employment generation and asked what steps the govt is taking to create jobs
- Prakash asked if the government has created “any master plan for each sector of the economy for creation of more jobs and put any deadline to achieve that goal”
The Parliament is set to discuss unemployment, which is at a four-decade-high, with the government on Monday agreeing to the opposition’s demand for a debate on the lack of job creation—a burning question in the run-up to the general elections.
During Question Hour in Lok Sabha, Congress’ Adoor Prakash and Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD’s) Pinaki Mishra raised the issue of data on employment generation in the last five years, and asked what measures the Union government was taking to create jobs.
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Prakash asked if the government has created “any master plan for each sector of the economy for creation of more jobs and put any deadline to achieve that goal”.
“As far as employment is concerned, some organizations give news that are not entirely true. I can only say that the recent elections proved that this campaign was not true,” Union minister Santosh Gangwar replied. The response was a reference to the fact that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the election in spite of the Opposition’s criticism on the jobs front.
Source: Livemint
