New Delhi, July 1
Union Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar today said that reports about high unemployment rate in the country were misleading and asserted that employment generation was the priority of the government.
Amid concerns in various quarters about reports on rising unemployment, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment told the Lok Sabha that he was ready for a discussion on the employment situation in the country.
He also said the government was looking into the issue of unemployment and would be coming out with a report. During the Question Hour, Congress member Adoor Prakash said that unemployment rate in the country was high and asked whether the government had any master plan in place to generate more jobs in every sector of the economy.
In response, Gangwar said reports about high unemployment rate were not fully true, eliciting protests from Opposition members. For 2018-19, under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme, jobs were generated for 5,86,728 persons as on March 1, 2019, according to data provided in a written reply. — PTI
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