Unemployment On The Decline In Haryana, Claims CM Khattar
Chandigarh, March 22 (TNA) Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar claimed in the Haryana assembly that the rate of unemployment in the state has decreased in comparison to what it was during the tenure of previous government.
At present, the number of applicants registered with various employment exchanges in February 2023 is 6.46 lakh, while in December 2014 the number was 7.86 lakh. The government has made tireless efforts to provide employment opportunities to the State Youth, he informed.
Along with government jobs, employment opportunities have been made available to the youth in the private sector as well, said Khattar while replying to a question regarding unemployment in the state during the question hour in the budget session of State Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday.
He said that according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation from time to time, the unemployment rate in Haryana was 8.6 percent in 2017-18, 9.2 percent in 2018-19, 6.5 percent in 2019-20, and 6.3 percent in 2020-21.
The Chief Minister said that the Reserve Bank of India also releases such data every year. According to RBI the unemployment rate is 8.1 percent. However, there is no fixed formula for these figures, so the figures of different agencies also differ, said CM Khattar. Khattar added that in 8 years we gave more than 1 lakh government jobs in comparison to 86,000 during Congress 10 years regime.
Not only this, under the Haryana Skill Development Mission, employment opportunities have also been made available to more than 1 lakh youth by skill development. After 2015, employment has been provided to 12.64 lakh youth in the private sector as well, the Chief Minister further informed the House.
The Chief Minister also informed that 86,000 government jobs were given in 10 years from 2005-2014, while during our tenure more than 1 lakh jobs have been given in 8 years. Besides this, under the Saksham Yuva Yojana also, post graduate, graduate and 12th pass students are given Rs.3000, Rs.1500 and Rs.900 per month respectively for 100 hours of work. So far 1.75 lakh youth have taken advantage of this scheme.
Discarding CMIE figures, CM Khattar said these are beyond facts, they consider small sample size. Responding to the unemployment figures released by CMIE agency from time to time, the Chief Minister informed the House that CMIE issues unemployment rate after conducting the sample survey of only 5000 population out of the total of 1.80 crore population.
— Jag Mohan Thaken
(The author is a Chandigarh-based senior Journalist, Columnist & Political Analyst)