New Delhi, June 19: The BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi provided nearly 9 lakh Central government jobs against the UPA government’s just around 6 lakh in nine years of their rule from 2004 to 2013 and 2014 to 2023 respectively, said Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh on Monday.
He substantiated each of his observations with comparative facts and figures while addressing a press conference at BJP National Headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg here.
The minister said there has been a substantial rise in employment generation during the nine years of the Modi government. He said during the six Rozgar Mela launched by PM Modi, mass recruitments have been initiated, and over 70,000 appointment letters were issued in each of the campaigns.
Dr Singh said PM Modi has awakened the youth to not just depend on government jobs but also create jobs. “From a meagre 350 there are now 1 lakh startups; Aroma Mission launched, for instance, incense sticks were being imported from South East Asia but with the homegrown Bamboo cultivation being taken out of the purview of Indian Forest Act 1927 by amendment, while import duty raised to 25%, the bamboo industry has been provided an opportunity to go global; Khadi today has become a designer item with a turnover of Rs 1 lakh crore,” he said, adding, “You will be living out of the global challenges, global benchmarks and global parameters; so that is also in a way Prime Minister preparing us for Vision 2047 to give a lead to the rest of the world.”
The Union Minister said PM Modi is of the firm belief that India’s 140 crore population can be used as a dividend. Other than mass recruitment, bulk promotions of 9,000 employees were undertaken last year alone, and 4,000 promotions are slated for this year, he said.
Dr Jitendra said that in the last nine years, there has been both quantitative & qualitative improvement due to the administrative reforms initiated by PM Modi. He said PM has advocated zero tolerance for corruption. Another major reform is the grievance redressal mechanism in the government, he added.
