"Karnataka Has Minimum Unemployment Problem": Basavaraj Bommai

CM Bommai further said in Union Budget, Rs 7,651 crores have been earmarked to improve railway facilities in Karnataka.

Stating that there is a big strength of the government of India behind the creation of 33 lakh jobs in Karnataka in the past five years with 13 lakh jobs in last year alone, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday claimed Karnataka has a "minimum unemployment problem."

Speaking at the inauguration of IIT Dharwad, the Hubballi-Dharwad Smart City project and other development works in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi also participated, the CM said, "Karnataka has the minimum unemployment problem."

"The PM is one such stateman who has a vision for which he helped in establishing the IIT in Dharwad to make the country technology strong. A lot of reforms have been brought by him including the electrification of the Hospet-Hubballi-Tinaighat Railway line," he added.

CM Bommai further said in Union Budget, Rs 7,651 crores have been earmarked to improve railway facilities in Karnataka. This is the work of the double-engine government.