Amid increasing debates over rising unemployment, Principal Economic Adviser Sanjeev Sanyal on Monday said there was a significant amount of new job creation happening, and the government was also creating jobs through capital expenditure on infrastructure and support jobs via the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
Replying to a query on lack of job creation in the public sector, Mr. Sanyal said, “... there are areas where the public sector is generating jobs, it may not be government jobs but when you are talking about capital expenditure on infrastructure, that is also a job created by government spending, the contractors’ workers may not be government employees, so there is that kind of job being created, and then you know support jobs like the MGNREGA are also forms of government jobs.”
