Among all the countries, India has the lowest unemployed rate, claimed Union Minister of State for Labour Santosh Gangwar in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Replying to a question of Sukhram Singh Yadav enquiring whether the Government had succeeded in providing 200 million jobs in the last four years, the union minister replied that joblessness in the country was not alarming.
The points the minister made in the Rajya Sabha are as follows:
Published: 19 Jul 2018, 3:22 PM IST
The National career Service Portal, however, shows that the minister furnished wrong information to the Rajya Sabha. It claims to have registered 1.4 million employers and having notified less than a million vacancies.
Neither the minister nor the portal, however, provides a clear picture of how many people have been given employment and where during the last four years.
International Labour Bureau (ILO) does put India’s unemployment rate at 3.5 per cent, lower than Indonesia’s 4.3 and Australia’s 5.7 per cent. But in absolute terms, while the number of unemployed in Australia is projected at less than a million, ILO claims in India the number is 18.6 million this year and projects it would increase to 18.9 million next year.
Published: 19 Jul 2018, 3:22 PM IST
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Published: 19 Jul 2018, 3:22 PM IST