Political parties in Odisha are vying with one another in getting job promises written into their election manifestos as the state's unemployment rate has remained higher than the national average for the past six years.
Ahead of the simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, starting May 13, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced 200,000 government jobs in the next five years if his Biju Janata Dal (BJD) returned to power for a sixth term. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised 350,000 employment opportunities, including filling up 150,000 vacant government posts, by 2029.
The Congress, on the other hand, has vowed to provide jobs for 500,000 youths and offer an unemployment allowance of 3,000 per month.
Despite declining by three percentage points in 2022-23 (FY23) compared to FY19, Odisha's unemployment rate remains higher than the average in India, shows the data from the annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released in October.
The rate of unemployment for those aged 15 years and above was 7 per cent in Odisha in FY19. It dipped to 3.9 per cent in FY23. In the same period, India's unemployment rate decreased from 5.8 per cent to 3.2 per cent.
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