Indians’ Desperation for State Jobs Shows Unemployment Crisis
- Data for last eight years show recruitments on a decline
- Modi announced plan for a million government jobs last month
Demonstrators protest against the central government over unemployment and rising inflation in New Delhi, India, on July 19.
Photographer: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
This article is for subscribers only.
India recruited just 0.3% of the candidates who applied for permanent government jobs in the last eight years, highlighting the unemployment crisis plaguing the world’s fastest-growing economy.
The government hired 722,311 candidates out of 220 million applications it received since 2014, Jitendra Singh, a junior minister in the personnel ministry told Parliament Thursday. The number of job applications as well as recruitments have declined since 2014, the data shared with lawmakers showed.