Underlining that economic growth means diversification of employment from agriculture to industry to services, the Congress on February 24 claimed that the progress achieved under Manmohan Singh's Prime Ministership in this direction has been reversed by the Narendra Modi government.
The current dispensation's "mismanagement" has set the economic transformation back by 20 years, the party alleged.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the number of agricultural workers in India declined by 6.7 crore between 2004-05 and 2017-18 as workers left low-wage agriculture to instead pursue higher-wage occupations in manufacturing and services.
