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Opposition claims on lack of jobs are hollow and misleading, says Anurag Thakur

Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday termed the allegations of the INDIA bloc on insufficient jobs as “misleading and hollow”. Citing a report recently released by SKOCH Group, the Minister underscored that credit-led employment and Central government schemes-led employment had added more than 50 crore person years of employment during the decade that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been at the helm since 2014.

“The so-called Opposition alliance, which is no more than a rag-tag coalition of incompatible parties, is seeking to mislead people on jobs for petty electoral reasons,” Mr. Thakur said in a statement here.

The SKOCH report said that 5.14 crore person years of employment have been generated every year since 2014.

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