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BJP govt has provided 1.5 times more jobs in 10 years: PM
Financial Express Mumbai
|February 13, 2024
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi on Monday said his government has given 1.5 times more jobs in its 10 years than the previous dispensation did in the same duration.
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Handing over recruitment letters to government jobs to more than one lakh youngsters via video conference during a Rozgar Mela programme, Modi castigated the previous government for taking an inordinately long time to complete recruitment exercises and said it bred bribery.
This story is from the February 13, 2024 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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