New Delhi: Prime Minister's Economic Advisor, Bibek Debroy on Friday, a day after the National Sample Survey Office Periodic Labour Force Survey recorded the unemployment rate in India at a 45-year-high, said that they will prepare a fresh jobs report. “The survey will show that there has been a substantial increase in jobs”, said Debroy.
"It is important to realise that what is the role of the Modi government in jobs. It is partly union government and large part of what happens to business environment, jobs, employment is the problem of states...But Union government can facilitate enabling environment for establishments to function, entrepreneurship to flourish and this is precisely what the Modi government has been doing by pushing self-employment" he said.
The leaked report which recorded unemployment rate of 6.1 percent in 2017-18 gave Congress the opportunity to attack and push the NDA government in defensive mode. Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said it was time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to leave as he had failed to keep his 2014 promise of adding two crore jobs every year, and called the unemployment rate a “national disaster”.
After Narendra Modi announced the 'demonatisation' of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes in November 2016, this was for the first time that the survey on employment by a government agency was conducted. The Periodic Labour Force Survey is the first annual household survey of the National Sample Survey Office and data collected was from July 2017 to June 2018.