A large part of the claimed “employment growth” has recorded the unpaid household work by women as “employment”, he said, adding that it is not new job creation.Amidst the poor economic climate, workers are moving to low-productivity informal and agricultural jobs. While crucial sectors like education saw 12 lakh fewer jobs in 2020-2021, a whopping 1. 8 crore ‘jobs’ were ‘created’ in agriculture,” he said. Thus, factory workers, teachers, miners, etc. who returned home during COVID-19 and had to return to farming, Ramesh argued.This shift to low-productivity, poorly paid jobs is an economic travesty, which the government is touting as an achievement, the Congress leader said.
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