Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar while addressing media strongly condemned Congress for making wrong propaganda regarding unemployment rate in Haryana state as 34%, which is incorrect since there is only 6.1% unemployment in the state. He surprisingly said why Congress leaders are projecting such incorrect figures during their Bharat Jodo Yatra. Khattar slammed the Congress for quoting fictional figures projected by Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) for which we shall take action against CMIE for quoting unrealistic figures.
Khattar said, Congress leaders are in the habit of making false statements and befool people by spreading false rumours that 34% youths in Haryana state are unemployed as against actual 6.1%as identified in ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra Programme’ (family id) launched in the state in 2022 in which around 98% families were registered. Khattar said that there is 2.75 crore population of people between age 18 to 60 of them nearly 6.5 lakh people were found unemployed in the state whereas only about 6% people of age between 18 to 45 were identified only between 2 to 2.5% as such Rahul Gandhi needs to provide correct figures before making a public statement.
Khattar disclosed that during eight years BJP government in Haryana state nearly 33,60,000 persons have been provided employment opportunities and nearly 50,000 Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSME) industrial units have been set up in the state in this period provided employment to more than 12 lakh persons. He said that nearly 9 lakh unemployed youth have been able to get jobs under Start up and Stand up schemes in the state. Chief Minister said, although it is not possible for a government to provide government jobs to everyone, but ruling government in the state provided government jobs to nearly a lakh youths and there is a proposal to provide 40,000 government jobs in class III category and 20,000 jobs in class IV category during this year.
Chief Minister expressing regret said that doing this kind of petty politics over such fictional figures is undesirable from a leader of any sensible political party. Khattar said, if needed action would be taken against CMIE for releasing unrealistic figures which during month November, 2022 in its report had showed unemployment rate in Haryana as 29.3 percent which itself was far from the reality as now they are claiming unemployment rate in Haryana as 34% which itself is contradictory seems to be associated with political parties in opposition perhaps working on their tips.
