Accusing the opposition of spreading lies over the issue of unemployment in Haryana, the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday said that unemployment rate in the state stands at 6.1 percent with around 10.59 lakh people in the age group of 18-58 years declaring themselves as unemployed.
“As per the data collected under Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) programme which has covered 98 percent of state’s families till now, there are 1.73 crore people in the age group of 18- 58 years and out of them 1059530 persons have declared themselves unemployed. On the basis of these figures, the unemployment rate of Haryana stands at only 6.1 percent,” the Chief Minister said while talking to the mediapersonshere.
“The rhetoric being made by the Congress leaders while quoting the report of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) on highest unemployment rate in Haryana in the country is false and baseless,” the Chief Minister said while warning of taking legal action against the CMIE for defaming the state.
Khattar said that in one of its previous reports, the CMIE had pegged the unemployment rate of Haryana at 35.1 percent. CMIE is a privately owned company formed for profit-making and it has been the habit of this company to degrade the image of the State Government by presenting a false picture of the employment scenario. I will take up the issue with the Advocate General, Haryana on how an action can be taken against this company for spreading lies against the Haryana Government, he said.
The Chief Minister further said that till date, a total of 6578311 families have been registered under PPP and the figure of registered population is 25799000. There are around 18 lakh children among them, he added.
The CMIE’s latest report has stated that Haryana recorded the highest unemployment rate at 34.1 percent in the country in December 2021 while India has reported an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.
Notably, the former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja, party’s national spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala among other Congress leaders have been attacking the BJP-JJP led Haryana Government over the increase in unemployment rate while quoting the figures from CMIE report.
Hitting back at the Congress over the issue, the Chief Minister said that doing this kind of petty politics over such fictional figures is not correct. Even the NITI Aayog and the Central Government never paid any heed to such fake reports, Khattar said.
The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) has shown the unemployment rate in India at 9.4 percent while in Haryana it was at 10.3 percent during January-March 2021. But CMIE has shown unemployment of 7.4 percent in the country while 29.3 percent in Haryana during the same period, he said.