Employment in the country has increased by 36% to 643.3 million in 2023-24 from 471.5 million in 2014-15, “reflecting an improvement in jobs scenario” under the NDA regime, labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday, quoting sets of official data.
Under the UPA regime (2003-04 to 2014-15), employment had grown only 7%, he noted.
Mandaviya said under the UPA government just 29 million additional jobs were created whereas under the Modi government, 171.9 million jobs were added. In 2023-24 alone, around 46 million jobs in the country were created.