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Sometime in June 2022, the Narendra Modi government made a bold announcement on job creation. It outlined a plan to recruit one million people across different departments and ministries of the Union government over the following 18 months. According to the announcement, these recruitments were to be undertaken on a “mission mode.”
The context of that announcement was both political and economic. Political because the announcement was made a little less than two years before general elections were due to be held in 2024, and jobs had already become a cause for political as well as electoral concern. Economic because
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