New Delhi: Amid allegations by the opposition over job cuts, the government has told Parliament that since 2014, over 7. 22 lakh jobs have been given jobs by the central government.
Minister of State in the Personnel Ministry Jitendra Singh said in a written reply that more than 22 crore applications for jobs were received during the same period.
According to the written reply, 38,850 were recruited during 2021-22, 78,555 in 2020-21, 1,47,096 in 2019-20, 38,100 in 2018-19, 76,147 in 2017-18, 1,01,333 in 2016-17, 1,11,807 in 2015-16 and 1,30,423 during 2014-15.
The Congress says the BJP came to power by promising to provide employment to two crore people every one year and the opposition’s aggressive stance has led to a stalemate in Parliament. The government says it is ready to discuss every single issue.
Taking a dig at Prime minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “In a series of tweets, ‘Raja’ arrested 57 MPs and suspended 23 MPs for questioning price rise and unemployment. The king is afraid of the question in the temple of democracy, but fighting dictators makes us happy.”