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Claiming that unemployment in Haryana has decreased and that over one lakh youth were given government jobs in past eight years, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said as per the verified data, the number of unemployed in the state is 10.46 lakh...
However, there is a section of society which is not unemployed but actually underemployed, Khattar said in the state assembly, responding to a question of Congress MLA Rao Chiranjeev, who wanted to know if unemployment has increased in the last eight years in the state and the steps taken by the government to increase the employment...
Khattar said the authentic data source on employment in all states/UTs is the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) which is conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) under the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MOSPI)...
After 2015, employment has been provided to 12.64 lakh youth in the private sector as well, Khattar said, adding the unemployment figures of the CMIE are incorrect as they are based on small sample size...
Responding to the Congress accusations that employment is on the rise as per the unemployment figures released by CMIE agency from time to time, the chief minister informed the House that CMIE issues unemployment rate after conducting the sample survey of only 5,000 population out of the total of 1.80 crore population...
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