Unemployment situation in the country reached alarming heights during BJP-led NDA government. The Prime Minister and his Government chose to juggle figures rather than present a comprehensive employment generation plan. The Prime Minister had promised generation of one crore new jobs per year for the youth of India. By using a small sample of NSS, he claims that 8.4 million jobs have been created. Economists regarded this assertion of PM as unreliable and unwarranted. The actual figures showed a drop in annual rate of growth of employment. Between 1983-1984 and 1993-1994, the annual rate of growth of employment was 2.67% a year. Between 1993-1994 and 1999-2000 this slowed to 1.07% a year, according to NDA Government’s Economic Survey for the year 2002-2003. The unemployment rate grew from 5.99% in 1993-94 to 7.32% in 1999-2000. Organized sector employment dropped from 28.2 million in 1997 to 27.7 million in 2001.
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