‘Employment increased during Modi govt’s nine years’

On Monday, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said employment has increased in the last nine years of the Modi government, during which nine lakh jobs were given to the country’s youth. Addressing Rozgar Mela, he said one of the biggest achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure was that a large number of government jobs have been provided.
“Not only have the jobs been generated, but you (the prime minister) have generated awareness among the youth that employment is not only about government jobs,” Singh said, addressing the event presided over by Modi. “At times, questions are raised about what the difference is between then and now,” he said, referring to employment generation between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the BJP’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime.
Singh said during the UPA’s first nine years, that is, from 2004 to 2013, six lakh jobs were given, whereas under the Modi government, nine lakh jobs have been provided, an increase of 60 to 70 percent. He gave a comparison of recruitments carried out by three main recruitment agencies of the Government of India—the Staff Selection Commission (SSC), the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)—during the UPA and NDA regimes. The SSC had recruited two lakh people during UPA’s nine-year rule, whereas it recruited more than four lakh under NDA’s rule, he stated. Similarly, as against 3,47,291 recruitments during the UPA’s regime by the RRB, more than 4.2 lakh recruitments were done under the NDA’s rule, the minister said. Singh said the UPSC carried out recruitments of 45,431 youths under the UPA’s tenure, while 50,906 were recruited during the nine years of the Modi government. Not only this, Singh said, but large-scale promotions have also been given to government employees by the central government.