Mumbai, July 28 (UNI) The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre for rejecting 99 percent of job applications and thus hit- ting the unemployed youth in the country badly. NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapas said that the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT)’s statement in the Lok Sabha has proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has totally failed in his promise of giving two crore jobs every year, as claimed in his election campaigns.
“The government has to admit to receiving 22 crore applications for government jobs since 2014. However, of these, only 7.22 lakh were considered. This means that more than 99 percent of the job applications were rejected and a mere 0.32 percent of all the applicants actually got employment,” he said sharply. Tapas recalled how Modi had come to power by playing on the sentiments of the unemployed by promising “huge job opportunities” of 2 crores to be created each year, which has not materialized. “However, the reality is far from the perceptions. Unemployment remains at its highest today owing to the disastrous policies of the Modi government, besides other problems confronting the nation,” he added.
