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Patna:Six months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has scaled up government recruitment in a state grappling with dire unemployment figures...
At Patnas Gandhi Maidan Thursday, he distributed appointment letters to 25,000 teachers, part of a state government drive that has seen more than 1.2 lakh new teachers appointed, with cabinet ministers also giving out letters in other districts...
This came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed 51,000 appointment letters as part of the central governments Rozgar Mela drive, something Nitish referenced at Thursdays function: Such large-scale appointments have never been made before..
Former political strategist Prashant Kishor now leading the Jan Suraaj Yatra through Bihar has said that the state government does not have the capability to appoint 10 lakh people..
But for meaningful impact, one needs an overhaul in the economics of the state, he said.. While Rajasthan and Haryana have worse unemployment figures than Bihar, the latter is well behind states including Uttar Pradesh (4.3 percent rate of unemployment), Madhya Pradesh (3.2 percent) and West Bengal (5.5 percent), according to CMIE data...
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