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Why Mohandas Pai & Rahul Gandhi are wrong

There seems to be an attempt to brush aside the results of all surveys that point to a deteriorating jobs situation

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Mahesh Vyas
There seems to be an attempt to brush aside the results of all surveys that point to a deteriorating jobs situation
 
Mohandas Pai claims that India produces about 5.5 million jobs every year. He arrives at the number by using membership of provident fund, national pension scheme, employee state insurance and government jobs. All of these overlap and EPFO is a superset of all. So, we study this data source below. He also draws inferences from the number of automobiles sold. (Watch: Left, Right and Centre, NDTV, September 22)
 
In 2015-16, there were 37.6 million contributing members to the
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