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Rural job demand nails FM's claim on employment: Cong
The Morning Standard
|April 12, 2024
IN a sharp attack on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman on unemployment, the Congress on Thursday said the "steady rise" in the demand for MGNREGA scheme bursts the FM's claims on unemployment and job creation in the country.
The Congress reaction came a day after Sitharaman's interview with this newspaper, where she said that the Opposition was attacking the government on unemployment "without any reliable data." Speaking to this newspaper, Congress leader and a key member of the manifesto committee Praveen Chakravarty said the party has cited the data from World Bank and other credible universities and the rising demand for NREGA jobs tell the story of unemployment in India. "The FM said that the Opposition doesn't have reliable data to claim unemployment. However, data from the World Bank and other universities say that 4
This story is from the April 12, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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