NEW DELHI – Around 5 million men in India lost their jobs over the last twoyears according to a research report, a development which is at odds withIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2014 election promise of creating 10mjobs a year. Women were excluded from job loss estimates.
The research report, issued by the Centre for Sustainable Employment ofBengaluru’s Azim Premji University, comes as India gears up for the secondphase of its six-week-long General Election tomorrow.
The vice chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India Aayog(an Indian government policy think tank), Rajiv Kumar, said the report was”not verified” and the “veracity of the data is not known, *NDTV*link reported.
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The CSE ‘State of Working India 2019’ report revealed that unemployment inIndia had risen significantly after 2011. The report explained that thefigures demonstrate why unemployment has emerged as a major election issuein India this year, according to *NDTV*.
