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Budget 2018: Modi govt aims to generate 3 billion man-days of employment

Government banks on social schemes to make employment statistics more rosy

Rural, MGNREGA, Employment
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Shameen Alauddin New Delhi
There has been political opposition and doubts in international forums over the Indian government’s success in generating meaningful employment for India’s burgeoning young population. It is estimated that 13 million people enter the workforce every year but India is able to provide jobs to only a fraction of them. In the last full-fledged budget of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seems to have set lofty targets to change these perceptions about India’s laggard employment prospects.


To generate mass employment,

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