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Budget 2018 should focus on economic, job growth, says P Chidambaram

Chidambaram pointed to a recent survey by CSDS, which has brought out that the number one concern of the people of India was jobs

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Former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram at Parliament House on the first day of the Budget session | Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi

Last Updated : Jan 31 2018 | 1:15 AM IST

The fifth and last Budget of the Narendra Modi government would need to address the problem of economic growth and meet the challenge of creating jobs, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and former deputy chairman of the erstwhile Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Tuesday.

Participating in a panel discussion after former president Pranab Mukherjee launched Chidambaram’s book, Speaking Truth to Power, a collection of his essays published in newspapers, Ahluwalia and Chidambaram disputed recent claims in a study that the Modi government created 7 million jobs. Ahluwalia termed the inferences of the study based on Employees' Provident Fund Organisation

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