Govt manipulating statistics to cover up unemployment scenario: Cong
Party general secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh cited a report to claim that the government had adopted a 'Ninja technique' to include those working for even an hour per week as employed. 'Modi government's new 'ninja technique' to reduce unemployment! If you work even just one hour a week, the government might consider you employed! The Modi government's Ministry of Statistics prepared its recent survey report based on this very criterion. 'The most embarrassing thing for the government is that, despite loosening the definition of unemployment so much, only 51.7 per cent of people were found to be employed,' he said in a post in Hindi on X.
Ramesh claimed the government survey also revealed that women's participation in economic activities is extremely low, with only 23 per cent of women in urban areas involved in any economic activity compared to 70.5 per cent of men. 'This picture shows how serious the situation is. Expensive education, declining job opportunities. Over the past 11 years, the Modi government's policies have pushed the country's youth into nothing but a pit of despair.
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