Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Monday dismissed the central government's claims on creating eight crore employment opportunities between 2021 and 2024 and 6.2 crore net subscribers joining the EPFO database and said that 2014-24 has seen "jobloss growth.
"During the last 4-5 years, despite the pandemic, there has been record generation of employment. According to RBI, in the last 3-4 years the country has generated employment for 8 crore people. These numbers have broken the false narrative of those who used to speak about unemployment,"