While unemployment ‘halves’ in Haryana, its youth seek jobs abroad

The high unemployment rate in the Bharatiya Janta Party-ruled Haryana reflected even in Union government surveys, has been a major weapon in the hands of the Opposition to attack the State government, and more so as the State goes to the polls in a few weeks from now. Attributing the high unemployment rate in FY22 in the State to the global post-Covid economic slowdown in sectors such as hospitality and civil aviation, Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Rajesh Khullar told The Hindu that job creation, both in the public and private sector, had been the Government’s top priority. figures show Haryana sliding on unemployment The proposed manufacturing plants of Maruti Suzuki and Suzuki Motorcycle at Industrial Model Township at Kharkhoda in Sonipat district to be commissioned next year are likely to generate around 15,000 direct jobs, he said, adding these efforts by the government are getting reflected in the recent job survey reports. Dismissing official job statistics as mere “jugglery of data”, Naveen Jaihind, president of Jai Hind Sena, a social organisation said not enough government jobs have been filled in the past few years. Mr. Jaihind, who is also former Haryana AAP president, said the State’s skewed sex ratio, coupled with high unemployment rate had led to rising number of young men forced to remain single in rural Haryana pushing them into drug-addiction and crime.