There is no shortage of surveys on India’s employment situation at a time when the government has turned its attention to the challenge of creating enough jobs. Taken together, the surveys present different numbers but with a generally common message: that not enough new jobs are being created. As for a specific number, there is only one on which there seems to be complete agreement: that India needs to create a million new jobs every month, or 12 million in a year. This figure is probably obtained by looking at the annual increase in the country’s population, which has held
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