No talk of jobs will not make the issue go away
Before the elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah and then Union finance minister Arun Jaitley had offered anecdotal evidence to argue that it was not true that there were no jobs. Of course, messrs Modi, Shah, Jaitley did not feel the need to refer to the exact number of jobs that could have been created by increased tourist arrivals and increased road building. The government is aware of it, and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced measures like allowing foreign companies to set up manufacturing units in India as part of the Make In India mission that could create some jobs in the country. The Modi government had ducked the issue of the numbers of jobs created saying that the existing methods were not satisfactory, and therefore they have created the payroll data. Mr Modi’s fond belief that if India becomes a $5 trillion economy there would be more jobs could make sense, but the Prime Minister and the government should show more courage in speaking about the jobs issue without the temptation to score brownie points.
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