Modi Govt's only mission is to 'keep youth jobless', says Kharge
The Hindu
Congress president Kharge accuses Modi Government of deliberately keeping youth unemployed, citing various reports on job loss and unemployment crisis.
The Modi Government has only one mission and that is to "keep the youth jobless", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged on July 9 in a scathing attack against the Centre on the issue of unemployment.
“The Modi Government may be refuting independent economic reports like the one by Citigroup on unemployment but how will it deny government data” Mr. Kharge asked in a lengthy post on X citing various reports.
"The truth is that Modi Government is solely responsible for shattering the dreams of crores of youth in the last 10 years," he alleged.
Mr. Kharge said the latest government data punctures the government's claims.
According to NSSO's (National Sample Survey Office) Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises, in the manufacturing sector, 54 lakh jobs were lost in unincorporated units in the seven years between 2015 and 2023, he said.
"In 2010-11, 10.8 crore employees were employed in unincorporated, non-agricultural enterprises across India, which has become 10.96 crore in 2022-23 - that is, a marginal increase of only 16 lakh in 12 years," he said.
Mr. Kharge cited the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), to state that the urban unemployment rate is at 6.7% (Q4, FY24).
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