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Employment, finally an election issue -Santosh Mehrotra and JK Parida

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published Published on Nov 11, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 11, 2020

-The Hindu

Several myths persist about job creation, which can misguide policymaking

Jobs are rarely far from the minds of citizenry. Politicians woke up to this fact in the run-up to the Bihar Assembly elections. It is for the first time that unemployment has become a big issue in an election. This is not surprising.

Rising unemployment

The economy had been slowing for nine quarters prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Before the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP managed to divert the attention of the youth with Ram Mandir and ‘nationalistic’ issues. The government consistently denied that unemployment was a problem. It did not release the National Sample Survey (NSS) on employment until a week after election results were announced. The pandemic and the poorly planned nationwide lockdown caused the economy to contract severely and livelihoods to disappear. Bihar saw millions of poor migrant labour returning home. U.P. and Bihar have a disproportionately high number of out-migrants. The Leader of the Opposition in Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, was the first to make joblessness an issue this election. He promised 10 lakh government jobs in his first Cabinet meeting, if made Chief Minister; the Janata Dal (United)/BJP countered him by promising to create 19 lakh new jobs.

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The Hindu, 11 November, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/employment-finally-an-election-issue/article33069055.ece?homepage=true


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