PTI, MUMBAI: Amid criticism of the government for not creating enough jobs in the country, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha, on Friday said there has been an increase in job creation in the last four years in new sectors but that has not been captured in various economic data.
In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised one crore jobs a year.
“The facts are telling us that we are not taking up all the jobs in the economy. The data is not picking up all the jobs that are being created in the new economy. Ola and Uber employ close of 10 lakh drivers and none of the data is picking that up,” Sinha said at the India Today Conclave here on Friday.
Debating Sinha’s claim, former union minister Sachin Pilot said that new industries are not creating as many jobs as they project. He pointed out that at present a vast majority of educated young people are either under-employment or unemployed.
“The problem is that there is not enough skill development going on. This country is now at a turning point where if we don’t take care of the young then this dividend is not only going to vanish it will be huge burden on the economy,” Pilot, who is currently Congress president in Rajasthan said.
In fact, the country is seeing its highest level of unemployment in the last 17 months, he said adding that the government leads growth in this country through capital expenditure but that is not happening. It has been dropping as a percentage of GDP every year.
